Reformation and the Practice of Toleration

Benjamin J. Kaplan (Ph.D. Harvard, 1989) holds the Chair in Dutch History at University College London. The author of several prize-winning books, he writes chiefly on the history of religious toleration in the Netherlands and elsewhere in early modern Europe.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 “Remnants of the Papal Yoke”: Apathy and Opposition in the Dutch Reformation2 Hubert Duifhuis and the Nature of Dutch Libertinism3 Dutch Particularism and the Calvinist Quest for “Holy Uniformity”4 Confessionalism and Its Limits: Religion in Utrecht, 1600–16505 A Clash of Values: The Survival of Utrecht’s Confraternities after the Reformation and the Debate over their Dissolution6 Possessed by the Devil? A Very Public Dispute in Utrecht7 Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and the Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe8 “Dutch” Religious Tolerance: Celebration and Revision9 Muslims in the Dutch Golden Age: Representations and Realities of Religious Toleration10“In equality and enjoying the same favour”: Biconfessionalism in the Low Countries11Religious Encounters in the Borderlands of Early Modern Europe: The Case of Vaals12“For They Will Turn Away Thy Sons”: The Practice and Perils of Mixed Marriage in the Dutch Golden Age13Integration vs. Segregation: Religiously Mixed Marriage and the “Verzuiling” Model of Dutch Society14Intimate Negotiations: Husbands and Wives of Opposing Faiths in Eighteenth-Century HollandIndex