Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635

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.

List of contents

• 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


• 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

About the author

Judith Pollmann is Professor of Early Modern Dutch History at Leiden University

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.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Pollmann, Judith (Leiden University) Pollmann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2021
• EAN: 9780198867357
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886735-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Past and Present Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, Netherlands, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700