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Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635 (Hardcover)
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Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635 (Hardcover)
Series: The Past & Present Book Series
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Mining the unusually rich range of diaries, memoirs, and poems
written by Catholics in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, Judith
Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and
political change in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens. The
Revolt that ripped apart the sixteenth-century Netherlands came at
the expense of a civil war, that eventually became a war of
religion. Originally both Catholics and Protestants supported the
rebellion, but it soon transpired that Catholics stood much to
lose. Their churches were ravaged by iconoclasts, priests feared
for their lives, and thousands of Catholics were forced to flee
their hometowns; Calvinist city republics imposed radical religious
changes, and in the rebel Dutch Republic Catholic worship was
banned. Although the Habsburg Netherlands eventually witnessed the
triumph of the militant Catholicism of the Baroque, Catholics
throughout the Netherlands found that the Revolt had changed their
lives forever.
By listening to the voices of individual Catholics, lay and
clerical, Professor Pollmann offers a new perspective both on the
Revolt of the Netherlands, and on the experience of religious
change in this period. She asks why Catholics responded so
passively to Calvinist aggression in the early decades of the
conflict, only to start offering very active support for a Catholic
revival after 1585, when the Habsburg Netherlands once again became
a Catholic bulwark. By exploring what it took to turn traditional
Christians into the agents of their own Counterreformation, she
highlights the changing dynamic between priests and laypeople as a
catalyst for religious change in early modern Europe.
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