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Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500–1620 This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation – both ProtestantandCatholic–acrossthewholeoftheLowCountriesduring thesixteenthcentury.Synthesizingfiftyyears’worthofscholarlylitera- ture,ChristineKooifocusesparticularlyonthepoliticalcontextofthe era:howreligiouschangetookplaceagainsttheintegrationanddisinte- gration 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,aswellashowitcontributedtotheformationoftheregion’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 Countriesinonevolume. ChristineKooiistheLewis,KatherynandBenjaminPriceProfessorof HistoryatLouisianaStateUniversity.Shewritesonthereligioushistory of the early modern Low Countries and is the author of Liberty and Religion:ChurchandStateinLeiden’sReformation(2000)andCalvinists and Catholics during Holland’s Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as numerous essays and articles. Reformation in the Low – Countries, 1500 1620 Christine Kooi LouisianaStateUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316513521 DOI:10.1017/9781009072793 ©ChristineKooi2022 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2022 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-316-51352-1Hardback ISBN978-1-009-07395-0Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. In fond memory of my grandparents, Reformed Netherlanders all Contents ListofIllustrations pageviii ListofMaps ix Acknowledgments x ANoteonNomenclature xii ListofAbbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 TheNetherlandsintheEarlySixteenthCentury 15 “TheLandsOverHere” 15 TheHabsburgCompositeState 20 TheChurch 27 2 InchoateReformation 46 Evangelicals 47 Anabaptists 57 Reaction 63 3 TheConfessionalTurn 74 FromAnabaptisttoMennonite 77 ReformedProtestantism 83 CatholicReform 95 4 War 105 TheWonderyear 110 RepressionandExile 117 RevolutionaryReformation 122 ReconquestandConsolidation 134 5 Schism 141 TheSouthernNetherlands:CatholicReformation 143 TheDutchRepublic:ProtestantismandPluralism 161 Conclusion 182 TheWiderContext 189 Bibliography 197 Index 217 vii Illustrations 1.1 ToweroftheChurchofSaintRumbold,Mechelen.City ofMechelen page28 1.2 Anonymous,LamentationwiththeSevenSorrowsofthe Virgin,1507.RijksmuseumAmsterdam 33 2.1 (Copyof?)BarendDircksz,Terechtstellingvantwee wederdopers,1525–1545.AmsterdamMuseum 72 3.1 TitlepageofBiestkensBible,1560.UniversityLibrary, FreeUniversityofAmsterdam 84 4.1 FransHogenberg,PresentationofthePetitionbythe CompromiseoftheNobility,1566–1570.Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 109 4.2 Anonymous,TheBurialoftheMass,1567.Royal Library,Brussels 111 4.3 FransHogenberg,IconoclasticFuryinAntwerp, 1566–1570.RijksmuseumAmsterdam 114 4.4 Anonymous,AllegoryoftheShipofState,latesixteenth century.RoyalMuseumsGreenwich 119 5.1 AntonGünterGheringh,JesuitChurchinAntwerp, 1662–1668.NationalTrust,UnitedKingdom 151 5.2 IllustrationfromRichardVerstegan,Théâtredescruautez deshérétiquesdenostretemps,1587.Bibliothèquenationale deFrance 160 5.3 Anonymous,TheSynodofDordrecht,1618.Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 168 5.4 AdriaenPieterszvandeVenne,FishingforSouls,1614. RijksmuseumAmsterdam 180 viii
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