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Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe Edited by CRAWFORD GRIBBEN AND GRAEME MURDOCK 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Gribben, Crawford, editor. Title: Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Europe / edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. Identifiers: LCCN 2019013216 | ISBN 9780190456283 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190456306 (updf) | ISBN 9780190456313 (online) | ISBN 9780190066185 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Calvin, Jean, 1509-1 564— Influence. | Calvinism. | Europe—H istory. Classification: LCC BX9418 .C85 2019 | DDC 284/. 24— dc23 LC record available at https://l ccn.loc.gov/ 2019013216 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America Contents Acknowledgments vii Contributors ix Introduction 1 Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock PART I: CULTURES OF THE WORD 1. Describing Calvinism 15 Todd Rester 2. Calvinism, Conversion, and the Science of the Self 37 Crawford Gribben 3. Calvinism and Education 57 D. G. Hart 4. Calvin, Calvinism, and Philosophy 76 Paul Helm 5. Calvinism and Literature 94 Mark S. Sweetnam PART II: VISUAL AND PERFORMING CULTURES 6. Calvinism and Theater in Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic 117 Freya Sierhuis and Adrian Streete 7. Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion 138 Angela Vanhaelen PART III: CULTURES OF BEHAVIOR 8. Exiles and Calvinist Identity 157 Mirjam van Veen vi Contents 9. Calvinism and War 171 Christine Kooi 10. Calvinism and Moral Discipline 186 Graeme Murdock Notes 205 Index 249 Acknowledgments We wish to thank Cynthia Read, Executive Editor at Oxford University Press, for her encouragement in this project, and to thank all the contributors to this volume for their assistance. Contributors Crawford Gribben teaches early modern British history at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of several books on early modern religious history, including John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat (2016). D. G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and is the author most re- cently of Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken (2017). Paul Helm is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London. Among his books is John Calvin’s Ideas (2004). Christine Kooi is Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author most recently of Calvinists and Catholics in Holland’s Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (2012). Graeme Murdock is Associate Professor in European History at Trinity College Dublin. He has published on the history of religion in Central Europe and France during the early modern period. Todd Rester is Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. His research explores the intellectual and doctrinal histories of faith, mission, war, rights, and power in Roman Catholic and Protestant contexts. Freya Sierhuis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York. She is the author of The Literature of the Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the Stage in the Dutch Republic (2015) and the co- editor of Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Europe (2013). Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, 1500– 1780, at the University of Glasgow. His books include Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England (2009), Apocalypse and Anti- Catholicism in Seventeenth-C entury English Drama (2017), and the edited volume, Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570– 1625 (2012). Mark S. Sweetnam is Assistant Professor in English with Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests include literature and theology, with a particular focus on early modern writing. Mirjam van Veen is Professor of Church History at the VU (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam. She has published widely on a range of subjects including David Joris, Sebastian Castellio, and the history of Dutch tolerance. Angela Vanhaelen is Professor of Art History at McGill University. Her most recent book, The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic (2012), was the winner of the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize.
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