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This open access book explores the role of continuity in political
processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues
that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were
enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the
Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the
rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that
existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became
extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In
contrast, this collection examines continuities between early
modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and
the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the
authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local,
practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to
highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in
forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while
political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new
polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with,
and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political
processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues
that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were
enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the
Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the
rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that
existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became
extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In
contrast, this collection examines continuities between early
modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and
the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the
authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local,
practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to
highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in
forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while
political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new
polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with,
and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
This volume is the first to compare the position of Catholic
minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. Looking beyond the
tales of persecution that have dominated traditional
historiography, the contributors focus on the realities of Catholic
existence. Thematically organized, the book explores Catholicism as
a minority culture that resorted to unorthodox means, both to
retain its own identity, and to survive in a hostile political
environment. It examines ritual, material culture, international
networks, and above all relations: between laity and clergy, men
and women, Catholics and Protestants. By highlighting differences
as well as similarities between the English and Dutch experiences,
"Catholic Communities in Protestant States" will help both
undergraduate readers and specialists to rethink the history of
Catholicism and the consequences of minority status for religious
communities.
Now available in paperback, this volume compares the position of
Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic. Looking
beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional
historiography, the contributors focus on the realities of Catholic
existence. Thematically organised, the book explores Catholicism as
a minority culture that resorted to unorthodox means, both to
retain its own identity, and to survive in a hostile political
environment. It examines ritual, material culture, international
networks, and above all relations: between laity and clergy, men
and women, Catholics and Protestants By highlighting differences as
well as similarities between the English and Dutch experiences,
'Catholic communities in Protestant states' will help both
undergraduate readers and specialists to rethink the history of
Catholicism and the consequences of minority status for religious
communities. -- .
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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