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Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries
About this book
The Revolt of the Netherlands has long been familiar to English-speaking readers, but the Reformation there has remained largely a closed book. The Reformation in the Low Countries developed along very different lines from German Lutheranism. While the decentralised character of political authority ensured the survival of religious dissent, a prolonged persecution of heresy postponed the formation of public Protestant churches until after 1572. Conflicting interests and beliefs, as well as the war and political struggle, shaped the final religious outcome. Local considerations and individual responses played their part alongside the decisions of rulers, whether Philip II and his lieutenant, the duke of Alva, or William the Silent. Alastair Duke's work is of central importance to a proper understanding of both Reformation and Revolt.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Origins of Evangelical Dissent in the Low Countries
- 2 The Face of Popular Dissent in the Low Countries, 1520–30
- 3 Dissident Voices in a Conformist Town: the Early Reformation at Gouda
- 4 Building Heaven in Hell's Despite: the Early History of the Reformation in the Towns of the Low Countries
- 5 Nonconformity among the Kleyne Luyden in the Low Countries before the Revolt
- 6 The Time of Troubles in the County of Holland, 1566–67
- 7 Salvation by Coercion: the Controversy surrounding the 'Inquisition' in the Low Countries on the Eve of the Revolt
- 8 From King and Country to King or Country? Loyalty and Treason in the Revolt of the Netherlands
- 9 Towards a Reformed Polity in Holland, 1572–78
- 10 The Reformation of the Backwoods: the Struggle for a Calvinist and Presbyterian Church Order in the Countryside of South Holland and Utrecht before 1620
- 11 The Ambivalent Face of Calvinism in the Netherlands, 1561–1618
- Glossary
- Index