Synopses & Reviews
An international group of leading historians explores the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration.
Review
"Dutch society was an interesting amalgam of intense religious passion combined with a willingness to endure other faiths, and these essays provide useful perspectives on a fasinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Catholic Library World"These essays provide useful perspectives on a fascinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Choice
Review
"Together these essays present a very valuable discussion of the practice of religious toleration set in the social and religious context of the Dutch Republic and confronted with the often very divergent principles of tolerance and intolerance." Renaissance Quarterly"Dutch society was an interesting amalgam of intense religious passion combined with a willingness to endure other faiths, and these essays provide useful perspectives on a fasinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Catholic Library World"These essays provide useful perspectives on a fascinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Choice
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-179) and index.
Synopsis
This 2002 collection of outstanding essays sheds new light on the paradox of the strictly Calvinist, yet tolerant, Dutch Republic in the Golden Age.
About the Author
R. Po-chia Hsia is Erwin Earle Sparks Professor of European and Asian History at Pennsylvania State University, Academician at the Academia Sinica, and holder of numerous fellowships in the US and Europe. In addition to professorships in the US, he has also held visiting professorships in the Netherlands and Germany, and has lectured in Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Hungary and Taiwan. He is the author or editor of eight books on early modern Europe, including In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1995) and The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (Cambridge, 1998).Henk van Nierop is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age. He is the author or editor of a number of books on European and Dutch history, including The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 (Cambridge, 1993) (0521 392608).
Table of Contents
1. Introduction R. Po-Chia Hsia
2. 'Dutch' religious tolerance: celebration and revision Benjamin J. Kaplan
3. Religious tolerance in the United Provinces: from 'case' to 'model' Willem Frijhoff
4. The bond of Christian piety: the individual practice of tolerance in Golden Age Holland Judith Pollmann
5. Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic Joke Spaans
6. Paying off the sheriff: strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age Holland Christine Kooi
7. Sewing the bailiff in a blanket: Catholics and the law in Holland Henk van Nierop
8. Anabaptism and tolerance: possibilities and limitations Samme Zijlstra
9. Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic Peter van Rooden
10. Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age Jonathan Israel
11. The politics of intolerance: citizenship and religion in the Dutch Republic (17th-18th centuries) Maarten Prak