Calvinists And Catholics During Hollands Golden Age

Author : Christine Kooi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023246
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calvinists and Catholics During Holland's Golden Age written by Christine Kooi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, political, and religious relationships between Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Although Holland, the largest province of the Dutch Republic, was officially Calvinist, its population was one of the most religiously heterogeneous in early modern Europe. The Catholic Church was officially disestablished in the 1570s, yet by the 1620s Catholicism underwent a revival, flourishing in a semi-clandestine private sphere. The book focuses on how Reformed Protestants dealt with this revived Catholicism, arguing that confessional coexistence between Calvinists and Catholics operated within a number of contiguous and overlapping social, political, and cultural spaces. The result was a paradox: a society that was at once Calvinist and pluralist. Christine Kooi maps the daily interactions between people of different faiths and examines how religious boundaries were negotiated during an era of tumultuous religious change.

Author : R. Po-Chia Hsia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139433903
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age written by R. Po-Chia Hsia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Netherlands to probe the history and myth of this Dutch tradition of religious tolerance. This 2002 collection of outstanding essays reconsiders and revises contemporary views of Dutch tolerance. Taken as a whole, the volume's innovative scholarship offers unexpected insights into this important topic in religious and cultural history.

Author : Charles H. Parker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067427671X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith on the Margins written by Charles H. Parker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the 1572 revolt against Spain, the new Dutch Republic outlawed Catholic worship and secularized all church property. Calvinism prevailed as the public faith, yet Catholicism experienced a resurgence in the first half of the seventeenth century, with membership rivaling that of the Calvinist church. In a wide-ranging analysis of a marginalized yet vibrant religious minority, Charles Parker examines this remarkable revival. It had little to do with the traditional Dutch reputation for tolerance. A keen sense of persecution, combined with a vigorous program of reform, shaped a movement that imparted meaning to Catholics in a Protestant republic. A pastoral organization known as the Holland Mission emerged to establish a vigorous Catholic presence. A chronic shortage of priests enabled laymen and women to exercise an exceptional degree of leadership in local congregations. Increased interaction between clergy and laity reveals a picture that differs sharply from the standard account of the Counter-Reformation's clerical dominance and imposition of church reform on a reluctant populace. There were few places in early modern Europe where a proscribed religious minority was so successful in remaining a permanent fixture of society. Faith on the Margins casts light on the relationship between religious minorities and hostile environments.

Author : Christine Kooi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379997
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age written by Christine Kooi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social, political and religious relationships between Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Although Holland, the largest province of the Dutch Republic, was officially Calvinist, its population was one of the most religiously heterogeneous in early modern Europe. The Catholic Church was officially disestablished in the 1570s, yet by the 1620s Catholicism underwent a revival, flourishing in a semi-clandestine private sphere. The book focuses on how Reformed Protestants dealt with this revived Catholicism, arguing that confessional coexistence between Calvinists and Catholics operated within a number of contiguous and overlapping social, political and cultural spaces. The result was a paradox: a society that was at once Calvinist and pluralist. Christine Kooi maps the daily interactions between people of different faiths and examines how religious boundaries were negotiated during an era of tumultuous religious change.

Author : Charles H. Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300262604
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Calvinism written by Charles H. Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period “A tour de force offering the reader the best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East India Company.”—Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, editor, Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age Calvinism went global in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as close to a thousand Dutch Reformed ministers, along with hundreds of lay chaplains, attached themselves to the Dutch East India and West India companies. Across Asia, Africa, and the Americas where the trading companies set up operation, Dutch ministers sought to convert “pagans,” “Moors,” Jews, and Catholics and to spread the cultural influence of Protestant Christianity. As Dutch ministers labored under the auspices of the trading companies, the missionary project coalesced, sometimes grudgingly but often readily, with empire building and mercantile capitalism. Simultaneously, Calvinism became entangled with societies around the world as encounters with indigenous societies shaped the development of European religious and intellectual history. Though historians have traditionally treated the Protestant and European expansion as unrelated developments, the global reach of Dutch Calvinism offers a unique opportunity to understand the intermingling of a Protestant faith, commerce, and empire.

Author : Helmer J. Helmers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107172268
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age written by Helmer J. Helmers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Author : Els Agten
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420223
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Church and the Dutch Bible written by Els Agten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy studies the impact of Jansenism and anti–Jansenism on vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteent and seventeenth centuries.

Author : Arie Theodorus Deursen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367851
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain Lives in a Golden Age written by Arie Theodorus Deursen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the ordinary working people of Holland in the seventeenth-century, the so-called 'golden age'.

Author : Geert H. Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316165140
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dutch Revolt and Catholic Exile in Reformation Europe written by Geert H. Janssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century sparked one of the largest refugee crises of Reformation Europe. This book explores the flight, exile and eventual return of Catholic men and women during the war. By mapping the Catholic diaspora across Europe, Geert H. Janssen explains how exile worked as a catalyst of religious radicalisation and transformed the world views, networks and identities of the refugees. Like their Protestant counterparts, the displaced Catholic communities became the mobilising forces behind a militant International Catholicism. The Catholic exile experience thus facilitated the permanent separation of the northern and southern Netherlands. Drawing on diaries, letters and evidence from material culture, this book offers a penetrating picture of the lives of early modern refugees and their agency in the Counter-Reformation.

Author : Laura J. Snyder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246523
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing written by Laura J. Snyder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher—gazed through a tiny lens set into a brass holder and discovered a never-before imagined world of microscopic life. At the same time, in a nearby attic, the painter Johannes Vermeer was using another optical device, a camera obscura, to experiment with light and create the most luminous pictures ever beheld. “See for yourself!” was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes, making the discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and anatomy that ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses, mirrors, and camera obscuras, creating extraordinarily detailed paintings of flowers and insects, and scenes filled with realistic effects of light, shadow, and color. By extending the reach of sight the new optical instruments prompted the realization that there is more than meets the eye. But they also raised questions about how we see and what it means to see. In answering these questions, scientists and artists in Delft changed how we perceive the world. In Eye of the Beholder, Laura J. Snyder transports us to the streets, inns, and guildhalls of seventeenth-century Holland, where artists and scientists gathered, and to their studios and laboratories, where they mixed paints and prepared canvases, ground and polished lenses, examined and dissected insects and other animals, and invented the modern notion of seeing. With charm and narrative flair Snyder brings Vermeer and Van Leeuwenhoek—and the men and women around them—vividly to life. The story of these two geniuses and the transformation they engendered shows us why we see the world—and our place within it—as we do today. Eye of the Beholder was named "A Best Art Book of the Year" by Christie's and "A Best Read of the Year" by New Scientist in 2015.