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Zusatztext This is an excellent study of the impact of the Revolt on Catholic laypeople living in the Habsburg Netherlands from the beginning of the Reformation until 1635. This book's unique contribution to the historiography is its illumination of lay Catholic activism and the collaboration of laity and clergy specifically in the Spanish Netherlands. ... one of the clearest and most readable narratives of the complex series of events referred to as the "Revolt". Informationen zum Autor Judith Pollmann was educated at the University of Amsterdam and the Warburg Institute in London. From 1995-2005 she taught early modern European history at Oxford University, before relocating to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where she is currently Professor of the History and Culture of the Dutch Republic. Pollmann has published widely on the cultural and religious history of the early modern Low Countries and on the Dutch Revolt. She is currently directing a research project entitled Memory, oblivion and identity in the early modern Low Countries, 1566-1700. Klappentext Judith Pollmann uses the diaries and memoirs of sixteenth-century Catholics to explore how they understood and experienced the religious civil war that ripped the sixteenth-century Netherlands apart. Zusammenfassung Judith Pollmann uses the diaries and memoirs of sixteenth-century Catholics to explore how they understood and experienced the religious civil war that ripped the sixteenth-century Netherlands apart. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: A pious people 2: Each should tend his own garden. Strategies, 1520-1566 3: Retribution and reform, 1567-1571 4: Catholics were not asked. Rebellion, 1572-1585 5: Reconciliation and atonement, 1585-1597 6: Marshalling the sacred, 1598-1621 Epilogue. Tilburg, 1633 Appendix. The principal Catholic diarists and memoirists discussed in the text Bibliography Index
Summary
Judith Pollmann uses the diaries and memoirs of sixteenth-century Catholics to explore how they understood and experienced the religious civil war that ripped the sixteenth-century Netherlands apart.
