Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620

✍ Scribed by Christine Kooi

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, Christine Kooi focuses particularly on the political context of the era: how religious change took place against the integration and disintegration of the Habsburg composite state in the Netherlands. Special attention is given to the Reformation's role in both fomenting and fuelling the Revolt against the Habsburg regime in the later sixteenth century, as well as how it contributed to the formation of the region's two successor states, the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, bringing together specialized, contemporary research on the Low Countries in one volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Nomenclature
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Netherlands in the Early Sixteenth Century
“The Lands Over Here”
The Habsburg Composite State
The Church
2 Inchoate Reformation
Evangelicals
Anabaptists
Reaction
3 The Confessional Turn
From Anabaptist to Mennonite
Reformed Protestantism
Catholic Reform
4 War
The Wonderyear
Repression and Exile
Revolutionary Reformation
Reconquest and Consolidation
5 Schism
The Southern Netherlands: Catholic Reformation
The Dutch Republic: Protestantism and Pluralism
Conclusion
The Wider Context
Bibliography
Index