This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, Christine Kooi focuses particularly on the political context of the era: how religious change took place against the integration and disintegration of the Habsburg composite state in the Netherlands. Special attention is given to the Reformation's role in both fomenting and fuelling the Revolt against the Habsburg regime in the later sixteenth century, as well as how it contributed to the formation of the region's two successor states, the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, bringing together specialized, contemporary research on the Low Countries in one volume.
This accessible general history places the Reformation in the Low Countries within its broader political and religious context.About the AuthorChristine Kooi is the Lewis, Katheryn and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She writes on the religious history of the early modern Low Countries, and is the author of Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation (2000) and Calvinists and Catholics During Holland's Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as numerous essays and articles.
Book InformationISBN 9781009073950
Author Christine KooiFormat Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 150mm * 13mm