Calvinists and Catholics During Holland's Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters. Christine Kooi

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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. Cover Calvinists and Catholics during Holland’s Golden Age Dedication Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1: War and Peace REVOLT AND REFORMATION THE PUBLIC CHURCH IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC THE GOLDEN AGE THE SOCIAL WORLD OF HOLLAND’S GOLDEN AGE 2: Priests and Preachers MISSIO HOLLANDICA HERETICS AND IDOLATERS 3: Persecution and Toleration 1572–1620: CONFUSION 1620–1660: CONFESSIONALISM AFTER 1660: COEXISTENCE 4: Converts and Apostates CLERICAL CONVERSION DISCIPLINE AND ERROR CONVERSION AS MISSION 5: Kith and Kin NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY Conclusion Bibliography Archival Sources Primary Sources Secondary Literature Index