Table of Contents

1. Introduction R. Po-Chia Hsia; 2. 'Dutch' religious tolerance: celebration and revision Benjamin J. Kaplan; 3. Religious tolerance in the United Provinces: from 'case' to 'model' Willem Frijhoff; 4. The bond of Christian piety: the individual practice of tolerance in Golden Age Holland Judith Pollmann; 5. Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic Joke Spaans; 6. Paying off the sheriff: strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age Holland Christine Kooi; 7. Sewing the bailiff in a blanket: Catholics and the law in Holland Henk van Nierop; 8. Anabaptism and tolerance: possibilities and limitations Samme Zijlstra; 9. Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic Peter van Rooden; 10. Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age Jonathan Israel; 11. The politics of intolerance: citizenship and religion in the Dutch Republic (17th–18th centuries) Maarten Prak.

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This 2002 collection of outstanding essays sheds new light on the paradox of the strictly Calvinist, yet tolerant, Dutch Republic in the Golden Age.

About the Author

R. Po-chia Hsia is Erwin Earle Sparks Professor of European and Asian History at Pennsylvania State University, Academician at the Academia Sinica, and holder of numerous fellowships in the US and Europe. In addition to professorships in the US, he has also held visiting professorships in the Netherlands and Germany, and has lectured in Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Hungary and Taiwan. He is the author or editor of eight books on early modern Europe, including In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1995) and The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (Cambridge, 1998). Henk van Nierop is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age. He is the author or editor of a number of books on European and Dutch history, including The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 (Cambridge, 1993) (0521 392608).

Reviews

'... delivers more than its title promises in that several of the essays are focused not on the Dutch Golden Age but on the 18th century, which makes a welcome change. In breaking new ground where the same old sods keep being turned over, the editors and contributors are to be congratulated on a truly impressive achievement.' Huguenot Society Proceedings '... provides much more than a series of detailed case studies ... it makes an important contribution to the literature on religious toleration during the early modern period.' Sixteenth Century Journal