Book Review: Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Heretics and idolaters

Using Reformed consistory records as her principal source, and limiting herself to the period from 1580 to 1700, in this new book she examines the interaction between Calvinists and Catholics in the confessional, civic and personal 'spaces' of the republic's richest province, Holland....

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Published in:The Journal of ecclesiastical history 2013, Vol.64 (2), p.417
Main Author: Pollmann, Judith
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Catholicism
Heresy
Religion
Space
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Summary:Using Reformed consistory records as her principal source, and limiting herself to the period from 1580 to 1700, in this new book she examines the interaction between Calvinists and Catholics in the confessional, civic and personal 'spaces' of the republic's richest province, Holland. The conceptual device of space works well to explain the odd contrast between the hostility towards Catholicism as expressed in Reformed sermons, pamphlets and consistory complaints, and the day-to-day experience of peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths; she argues that coexistence hinged on both sides accepting the boundaries in public space. Yet chapters iii-v contain a wealth of new evidence and ideas, also on the period after 1650, which remains surprisingly understudied by religious historians. [...]Kooi offers a new take on the phases in the levels of religious polarisation, arguing that this was less significant in the years before 1609 than in the second quarter of the seventeenth century.
ISSN:0022-0469
1469-7637
DOI:10.1017/S0022046912003223