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Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht 1578-1620

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Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht 1578-1620 - Kaplan, Benjamin J
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Why did the Netherlands, after the Dutch Reformation, emerge as the most religiously tolerant country in Europe? The causes lie in the struggle between the Calvinist desire to create a highly organized, disciplined church, and the broadstream, nonconformist "Libertine" alternative. Nowhere was this conflict more intense than in Utrecht, a city at the heart of the Dutch Reformation. In this urban case-study, Ben Kaplan gives us a fascinating microcosm of the European Reformation. There have been similar studies on French ...

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Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht 1578-1620 1995, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198202837

Hardcover