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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774596003321

Autore

Veen Mirjam van

Titolo

Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620 : A Reformation of Refugees / / Mirjam van Veen, Jesse Spohnholz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woodbridge, Suffolk : , : Boydell and Brewer, , [2024]

©2024

ISBN

1-80543-161-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.) : 3 b/w illus

Collana

Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe ; ; 23

Disciplina

284/.2492094309031

Soggetti

Dutch - Holy Roman Empire - Religious life and customs

Intergroup relations - Holy Roman Empire

Reformed (Reformed Church) - Holy Roman Empire

Religious refugees - Holy Roman Empire

Religious refugees - Netherlands

RELIGION / History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Leaving Home -- Chapter Two. Foreign Accommodations -- Chapter Three. Strangers and Neighbors -- Chapter Four. Managing Worship -- Chapter Five. Living in Diaspora -- Chapter Six. Returning and Remembering -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the Holy Roman Empire in the late sixteenth century.Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, widespread persecution and war forced tens of thousands of Reformed Protestants in the Netherlands to flee their homes for new communities in England and the Holy Roman Empire. This book follows those refugees who escaped to large cities and small towns to the east and southeast, up the Rhine River watershed. The comprehensive approach taken here examines these forced migrations from political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and linguistic perspectives, including using a large prosopographical



database to track refugees' movements and experiences. It challenges scholars' claims that Reformed Protestants developed more doctrinal, volunteeristic, and well-organized churches particularly capable of surviving the challenges of persecution and exile. Instead, the authors show, refugees proved remarkably willing to compromise and adapt, even as they built new relationships with the unfamiliar people they met abroad. Based on an extensive collaboration between two senior scholars with different training and intellectual backgrounds and the team of researchers they led, this book challenges conventional wisdom about refugees and forced migrations in early modern Europe.Upon publication, this book is openly available in digital formats thanks to generous funding from the Dutch Research Council.