Department of History
UCL
Spring 2012
Tues 4-6
25 Gordon Square, room 307
Moodle pages: http://moodle.ucl.ac.uk
Prof. Benjamin Kaplan
25 Gordon Square, Room 307
Office Hours: Mon 15:00-16:30
and by appointment
Phone: 020 7679 1338
Email: b.kaplan@ucl.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucrabjk/
This course examines the extraordinary religious and political upheavals that rocked the
Low Countries in the sixteenth century – the Protestant Reformation and the Revolt against Spain. It pays special attention to what was distinctive about the religious scene in the Low Countries: the protean character of the early Reformation there, the mass following that Anabaptism won, the influence of Erasmus, the unparalleled harshness of religious persecution, the ambitious `new bishoprics’ scheme for reforming the Catholic
Church, the mass flight of Protestants into exile, the uncompromising selectivity of the
Dutch Reformed churches, the `Libertine’ resistance to Calvinist discipline, the controversy over predestination, and the practice of toleration.
The course also looks for patterns behind the complex course of political events: the attachment of Netherlanders to their `privileges’, their goals and justifications for rebellion, the swing vote cast by the so-called `middle groups’, the dilemmas posed by the question of sovereignty, and the functioning of the new republican polity that formed in the northern provinces. The course concludes with a consideration of the Remonstrant
Controversy of the 1610s.
In approaching these subjects, the course combines a close examination of selected primary sources with a broad consideration of issues, debates, and historiography. While most of the primary sources are of a traditional, textual kind, some are visual: prints and paintings.
Students are not expected to have any background in Dutch history. It is assumed, though, that they have previously taken some other class in early modern history, so that the period is not entirely new to them. Students who have never studied this period in the history of the Low Countries are advised to read Geoffrey Parker’s
The Dutch Revolt or another work listed in Section IV below prior to, or at the very beginning of, the term.
Students with questions on this score should consult the instructor.

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We will meet once a week over the spring term. Our discussions will focus on the weekly assignments. For each meeting you will need to have read (a) all of the week’s
“core readings”: these generally consist of both primary sources and secondary literature.
Some sources are visual materials which students will need to examine in advance of our meeting (b) your own selection from the list of “recommended readings.” All core readings are available for short-term loan from the UCL Main Library, unless noted otherwise below; recommended readings may be available at UCL, Senate House, or elsewhere. For students competent in the Dutch language, the instructor will suggest in class some key works of historiography they may wish to read.
Written requirements are one assessed essay of approximately 4000 words (100%) including footnotes but excluding bibliography. While the instructor will suggest some possible topics for these essays, students are free and encouraged to develop, in consultation with the instructor, their own topics.
Your essay must be handed in by the official, departmental deadline of 5 p.m. on
Monday 23 April . Two copies of the essay must be handed in to the History
Department reception, with a completed 3-part coversheet, which will be date stamped; the pink copy of the cover sheet will be returned to you as a receipt/proof of submission.
Please note that your submission must be date-stamped. Any essay submitted after the abovementioned date will be penalised by 10 marks per week (or part thereof) late, up to a maximum of four weeks, after which it will receive a mark of 0. Extensions to these deadlines can only be granted by the Chair of the Board of Examiners on the recommendation of your Course Tutor, and is only likely to be granted in cases of serious illness or bereavement.
PLEASE NOTE that it is now REQUIRED that all coursework essays also be submitted electionically via Moodle.
All essays must be well presented and clear. Please leave wide margins and use doublespacing to allow teachers to write comments. Proof-read your work carefully and do not rely entirely on spell-checkers – they can introduce mistakes, particularly with proper names and foreign terms.
Plagiarism: essays, while based upon what you have read, heard and discussed, must be entirely your own work. It is very important that you avoid plagiarism, i.e. the presentation of another person’s thoughts or words as though they were your own.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating, and is regarded by the College as a serious offence, which can lead to a student failing a course or courses, or even deregistration. Any quotation from the published or unpublished works of other persons must be clearly identified as such by being placed inside quotation marks and students should identify their sources as accurately and fully as possible. Please see the Departmental Graduate
Handbook for further guidance on avoiding plagiarism and referencing. (Students not

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Reception or download one from the History Department webpages.)
The following is a list of some general works on early modern Dutch history and art history. All are available in the UCL Main Library for short-term loan. If you have little background in the history of the Low Countries, you should read carefully the relevant sections of at least a couple of them, and even if you do have such background, you may wish to consult them for orientation:
Arblaster, Paul. A History of the Low Countries (Basingstoke, 2006), ch. 3.
Benedict et al., Philip, eds. Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the
Netherlands, 1555-1585 . Amsterdam, 1995.
Blom, J.C.H. & E. Lamberts, eds., History of the Low Countries (Oxford, 1999), chs.
3/3 and 4/1-3.
Clark, G. N. The Birth of the Dutch Republic (London, 1975)
Darby, Graham, ed. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt (2001)
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990)
Geyl, Pieter. The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609 (London, 1932)
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), chs. 1-20.
Kistemaker, Renee. Amsterdam: The Golden Age, 1275-1795 , chs. 2-3
Limm, Peter. The Dutch Revolt, 1559-1648 (London, 1989)
Nierop, Henk van. `Similar problems, different outcomes: the Revolt of the
Netherlands and the Wars of Religion in France’, in A Miracle Mirrored:
The Dutch Republic in European Perspective , ed. K. Davids and J. Lucassen
(Cambridge, 1995), 26-56
Smit, J.W. `The Netherlands Revolution’, in
Preconditions of Revolution in Early
Modern Europe , ed. R. Forster and J. Greene (Baltimore, 1970)
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch Revolt (1977).
Parker, Geoffrey. Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659: Ten Studies (1979)
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987), Part I
You may wish to consider purchasing Parker’s The Dutch Revolt and/or Israel’s The
Dutch Republic
, as well as Darby’s
The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt .
All are available in paperback and give much-needed overviews (Parker and Israel chronological, Darby thematic) of a long series of complicated events.
For more specialized literature, see the Bibliography of Works in English to which there is a link below (on the Moodle page). Below you will also find links to several aids to study and research: a Chronology of the Dutch Revolt, a Glossary , and Maps .

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The following abbreviations are used:
Brandt = Geeraert [Gerard] Brandt, The History of the Reformation and other Ecclesiastical Transactions in and about the Low-
Countries….
, 4 vols. (London 1720-23) [ECCO]
Kossman & Mellink = E.H. Kossman and A.F. Mellink, eds., Texts concerning the Revolt of the Netherlands (Cambridge, 1974), available in print or at http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/koss002text01_01/index.htm
Rowen = Herbert H. Rowen, ed., The Low Countries in Early Modern
Times (New York, 1972)
Selected Documents = Selected documents for the Reformation and the
Revolt of the Low Countries, 1555-1609, ed. by Alastair Duke, available (only) at http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/English/default.htm
Zwart-wit = Daniel R. Horst, De Opstand in zwart-wit.
Propagandaprenten uit de Nederlandse Opstand 1566-1584
(Zutphen, 2003). Available in print or online via the “Links to
Images” link on my homepage.
ECCO = Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Available via UCL
Library Services: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/index.shtml
EEBO = Early English Books Online. Ditto.
Week 1
Week 2
Core reading:
Introduction & Background
Government and Society Before the Revolt
Lodovico Guicciardini,
The description of the Low countreys…
(London,
1593) [EEBO], 15r-21v, 49v-50v
Holy Roman Empire, The ioyfull entrie of the Dukedome of Brabant
(London, 1581) [EEBO], prologue, articles 1-3, 5-9, 17-18, 28, 45,
53-54, 57-8
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 1, first part
Recommended: Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall,
1477-1806 (Oxford, 1995), chs. 2, 4 & 6
Duke, Alastair. "The Elusive Netherlands. The question of national identity in the Early Modern Low Countries on the Eve of the
Revolt." Bijdragen en Mededelingen van het Historisch
Genootschap 119, no. 1 (2004): 10-38.
Tracy, James D. The Founding of the Dutch Republic (2008), chs. 1-3

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Tracy, James D. Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566 the formation of a body politic (Berkeley, 1990), chs 1-5
Koenigsberger, H.G. "The States-General of the Netherlands before the
Revolt." In Estates and revolutions essays in early modern
European history , ed. H. G Koenigsberger, chap. 4. Ithaca N.Y.:
Cornell University Press, 1971.
Boone, Marc and Maarten Prak, `Rulers, patricians and burghers: the
Great and the Little traditions of urban revolt in the Low
Countries’, in Karel Davids and Jan Lucassen, eds.,
A Miracle
Mirrored , pp. 99-134
W. P. Blockmans. "Alternatives to monarchical Centralisation: The Great
Tradition of Revolt in Flanders and Brabant." In Republiken und
Republikanismus im Europa der fruhen Neuzeit , edited by H.G.
Koenigsberger, 145-54. Munich, 1988.
Prevenier, W., and W. Blockmans, The Burgundian Netherlands , pp. 11-
46, 127-87, 313-32, 351-60
Koenigsberger, H.G. Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments: The
Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries . Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Prevenier, w.. "Officials in Town and Countryside in the Low Countries:
Social and Professional Developments from the Fourteenth to the
Sixteenth-Century." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 7 (1974).
Uytven, R. van, and W. Blockmans, "Constitutions and their Application in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages," Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis 48 (1969): 399-424.
Week 3
Core reading:
Erasmus, the Modern Devotion, and Christian Humanism
Erasmus, Enchiridion Militis Christiani [The Handbook of the Militant
Christian ] – abridged version available in John P. Dolan, ed., The
Essential Erasmus (New York, 1964), pp. 24-93
Lewis Spitz, The Religious Renaissance of the German Humanists , chapter on Erasmus [not available at UCL]
Recommended: Augustijn, Cornelis. Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence (Toronto,
1991)
Jardine, Lisa. Erasmus, Man of Letters . Princeton, 1993.
Tracy, James D. Erasmus of the Low Countries
Mout, M. E. H. N., H. Smolinsky, and J. Trapman. Erasmianism: Idea and Reality . Amsterdam: KNAW, 1997.
IJsewijn, Jozef. "The Coming of Humanism to the Low Countries," in
Itinerarium Italicum , ed. H.A. Oberman and T.A. Brady, Jr.
(Leiden, 1975), 193-301.
Cameron, James K. "Humanism in the Low Countries." In The impact of humanism on Western Europe , ed. Anthony Goodman, and Angus
MacKay, chap. 7. London, New York: Longman, 1990.
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall,
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Paul O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: the Classic, Scholastic, and
Humanistic Strains , esp. chs. 1 and 4
Grafton, Anthony, and Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities:
Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-
Century Europe . Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Ch. 6
John van Engen, Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life (Philadelphia,
2008)
Ibid., ed., Devotio Moderna: Basic Writings (1988)
Post, R. R. The Modern Devotion: Confrontation with reformation and humanism . Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968.
Gelder, H. A. Enno van. The two reformations in the 16th century: a study of the religious aspects and consequences of Renaissance and humanism . The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1961.
Week 4 The Early Reformation in the Low Countries
Core readings: Brandt 1:35-80
Thieleman van Braght,
The Bloody Theater or Martyr’s Mirror
, available at http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index-old.htm
, “Weynken,”
“Peter Koster,” “Edict of Charles V,” “Anna of Rotterdam”
Alastair Duke, Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), ch. 1
Literature: Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall,
1477-1806 (Oxford, 1995), ch. 5
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), chs.
2-5
Arblaster, Paul. `”Totius Mundi Emporium”: Antwerp as a Centre for
Vernacular Bible Translations 1523-1545’, in The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs , ed. Arie-Jan Gelderblom et al. (Leiden, 2004), 9-31
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground
Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577
(Baltimore, 1996), ch. 4
Tracy, James D. Holland under Habsburg rule , ch. 6
Waite, Gary K.. "The Anabaptist Movement in Amsterdam and the
Netherlands, 1531-1535: An Initial Investigation into Its Genesis and Social Dynamics." Sixteenth Century Journal 18 (1987): 249-
68.
Gary K. Waite. "Vernacular drama and the early urban Reformation: the chambers of rhetoric in Amsterdam, 1520-1550." Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 21, no. 2 (1991): 187-206.
Augustijn, Cornelis. "Anabaptism in the Netherlands: Another Look."
Mennonite Quarterly Review 62 (1988): 197-210.
Waite, Gary K. David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism, 1524-1543 .
Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990.
Tracy, James. "Heresy Law and Centralization in Habsburg Holland:
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Government under Mary of Hungary,"
Archiv für
Reformationsgeschichte 73 (1982): 284-308.
Verheyden, A. L. E. Anabaptism in Flanders, 1530-1650 . Scottsdale,
1961.
Irvin Buckwalter Horst, ed. The Dutch Dissenters: A critical companion to their history and ideas . Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986.
Week 5 Artists, Rhetoricians, and Popular Piety
Core readings:
Walter Gibson, “Artists and Rederijkers in the Age of Bruegel,”
Art
Bulletin 63 (1981): 426-46
Symon Andriessoon, Duytsche Adagia ofte Spreecwoorden , ed. Mark A.
Meadow and Anneke Fleurkens (Hilversum, 2003), pp. 58-64
Engravings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder:
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Big Fish Eat Little Fish
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Everyman
Faith
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Avarice
Temperance
Recommended: John Murray, Antwerp in the Age of Plantin and Bruegel , chs. 6-7
Waite, Gary K.. "Reformers on stage: Rhetorician drama and
Reformation propaganda in the Netherlands of Charles V, 1519-
1555."
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
83 (1992): 209-39.
Ibid., Reformers on Stage
Strietman, Elsa, and Peter Happé, eds. Urban Theatre in the Low
Countries.1400-1625 . Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground
Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577
(Baltimore, 1996), ch. 3
Veldman, Ijla M. Maarten van Heemskerk and Dutch Humanism in the
Sixteenth-Century . Maarssen, 1977.
Gibson, Walter S. Bruegel . New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.
Panofsky, Erwin. "Erasmus and the Visual Arts." Journal of the
Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 32 (1969).
Stock, Jan van der. Antwerp, story of a metropolis: 16th-17th century
(Ghent, 1993), essays by Francine de Nave and Marcus de
Schepper
Mark Meadow,
Peter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the
Practice of Rhetoric
Kavaler, Ethan, Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise
Bruaene, Anne-Laure van. " Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the
Chambers of Rhetoric in the Southern Low Countries." Sixteenth
Century Journal 36, no. 1 (2005): 11-35.
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Core readings: Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt , pp. 19-117
Darby, Graham, ed. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt , ch. 4
Kossman & Mellink, items # 1-6
Selected documents # 10-11, 12 (section on Antwerp only), & 14
Recommended: Geoffrey Parker, The Dutch Revolt , chs. 1-2
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries , chs. 6-7
J. Pollmann, 'Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands:
Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560 –1585', Past and
Present 190 (2006), 83-120
J. J. Woltjer, 'Violence during the Wars of Religion in France and the
Netherlands: A Comparison', Nederlands archief voor kerkgeschiedenis 76 (1996), 26-45
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground
Protestantism in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 , Part Two
Phyllis Mack Crew, Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the
Netherlands, 1544-1569
Woltjer, J.J. "Dutch Privileges, Real and Imaginary," in Britain and the
Netherlands , vol. 5, ed., J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann (The
Hague, 1975).
Geyl, Pieter. The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609
Beemon, F. E. "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition and the
Preconditions for the Dutch Revolt." Archiv für
Reformationsgeschichte 85 (1994).
Tracy, James. "Heresy Law and Centralization in Habsburg Holland:
Conflicts Between the Council of Holland and the Central
Government under Mary of Hungary,"
Archiv für
Reformationsgeschichte 73 (1982): 284-308. [WARB, IHR]
Tracy, James. Holland Under Habsburg Rule , esp. ch. 6
Duke, Alastair. "The `Inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the Habsburg Netherlands (1521-1566)." In L'inquisizione. Atti del Simposio internazionale, Cittŕ del Vaticano, 29-31 ottobre
1998, Agostino Borromeo, 419-43. Cittŕ del Vaticano:
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2003. [SH, WARB, BL]
Duke, A. C.. "Posters, Pamphlets and Prints: The Ways and Means of
Disseminating Dissident Opinions on the Eve of the Dutch
Revolt." Dutch Crossing 27 (2003).
Week 7 The Revolt against Spain (2): “Haec libertatis ergo”
Core readings: Parker, Dutch Revolt , 118-224
Israel, Dutch Republic
Zwart-wit
, 155-220
Kossman & Mellink, #15, 16, 21, 23, 28
illustr. #53, 54, 56, 64, 66
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Tracy, The Founding of the Dutch Republic , parts II & III
Arnade, Peter, and Henk van Nierop. "The Political Culture of the Dutch
Revolt: Introduction." Journal of Early Modern History 11 (2007):
253-61.
Swart, K. W. William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572-
84.
Abingdon: Ashgate, 2003. [SH]
J.J. Woltjer. "Political moderates and religious moderates in the revolt of the Netherlands." In Reformation, revolt and civil war in France and the Netherlands 1555-1585 , ed. Philip Benedict et al.
(Amsterdam, 1995) 185-200.
--also other essays in the same volume
Hibben, C. C. Gouda in revolt particularism and pacifism in the revolt of the Netherlands 1572-1588 . Utrecht: HES, 1983.
Martin van Gelderen, The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt, 1555-
1590
Martin van Gelderen. "Conceptions of Liberty during the Dutch Revolt
1555-1590." Parliaments, Estates, and Representations 2 (1989).
Monica Stensland. "Not as bad as all that: the strategies and effectiveness of loyalist propaganda in the early years of Alexander Farnese's governorship." Dutch Crossings 31, no. 1 (2007): 91-112.
Pollmann, Judith, and Andrew Spicer, eds. Public Opinion and Changing
Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands . Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Chs. 4, 5, 9
Christopher Grayson. "The Civic Militia in the County of Holland, 1560-
1581: Politics and Public Orderin the Dutch Revolt." Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de Gesschiedenis der Nederlanden 95
(1980): 35-63.
Week 8
Core reading:
The New Polity in the North
Israel, Dutch Republic , 220-40, 276-306
Parker, Dutch Revolt , 225-266
Kossmann & Mellink, #37, 48-49, 64-66
Recommended: Tracy, The Founding of the Dutch Republic , part IV
Tex, Jan den. Oldenbarnevelt . 2 vols. (condensed English version of his
5-volume definitive biography), vol. 1
Marjolein C. 't Hart. The making of a bourgeois state. War, politics and finance during the Dutch revolt . Manchester, 1993.
Jong, O.J. de. "Union and religion," Acta Historiae Neerlandicae XIV
(1981)
Adams, Simon. "Elizabeth I and the Sovereignty of the Netherlands
1576-1585." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14
(2004): 309-19.
Kaplan, Benjamin J. Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and
Community in Utrecht, 1578-1620 . Oxford: Clarendon Press,
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Oosterhoff, F. G. Leicester and the Netherlands 1586-1587 . Utrecht:
HES, 1988.
Deursen, A. Th. van. "Between unity and independence: the application of the Union as a fundamental law." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae
14 (1981).
Wansink, Hans. "Holland and Six Allies: The Republic of the Seven
United Provinces." In Britain and the Netherlands , ed. J. S
Bromley, and E. H Kossmann,Vol. 4. The Hague, 1971.
Reitsma, R. Centrifugal and centripetal forces in the early Dutch
Republic: The States of Overyssel 1566-1600 . Amsterdam, 1982.
Price, J.L. Holland and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century:
The Politics of Particularism (Oxford, 1994)
Herbert Harvey Rowen. The princes of Orange: the stadholders in the
Dutch Republic . Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Heinz Schilling. "Dutch Republicanism in its Historical Context." In his
Religion, political culture, and the emergence of early modern society (Leiden, 1992).
Wyger R.E. Velema. ""That a Republic is Better than a Monarchy": Antimonarchism in Early Modern Dutch Political Thought." In
Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage , edited by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner, 9-26. Cambridge, 2002.
Week 9 Calvinists vs. Libertines
Core readings:
Andrew Pettegree, “The politics of toleration in the Free Netherlands,
1572-1620,” in Ole Peter Grell & Bob Scribner, eds., Tolerance and intolerance in the European Reformation , pp. 182-98
Benjamin Kaplan, “`Remnants of the Papal Yoke’: Apathy and
Opposition in the Dutch Reformation,”
Sixteenth Century Journal
25 (1994): 653-69
Selected documents #32, 34, 35, 37, 40
Kossman & Mellink #43, 62
Brandt 1:346-50, 370-1, 378-80, 381-6, 461-74
Recommended: Israel, Dutch Republic , pp. 361-398
Kaplan, Benjamin J. Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and
Community in Utrecht, 1578-1620
Kooi, Christine. Liberty and religion church and state in Leiden's
Reformation, 1572-1620 , through p. 131
Parker, Charles H. The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and
Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620
Charles H. Parker. "Calvinism and Poor Relief in Reformation Holland."
In The Reformation of Charity: The Secular and the Religious in
Early Modern Poor Relief , edited by Thomas Safley. Leiden:
Brill, 2003.
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries , chs. 9-11, especially 11

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Pollmann, Judith. Religious choice in the Dutch Republic: The reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641).
Hamilton, Alastair. The Family of Love . Cambridge: J. Clarke, 1981.
Parker, Charles H.. "Public Church and Household of Faith: Competing
Visions of the Church in Post-Reformation Delft, 1572-1617."
Journal of Religious History 17 (1993): 418-28.
Kooi, Christine. Liberty and religion: church and state in Leiden's
Reformation, 1572-1620 (Leiden, 2000), chs. 3-5
———. "Pharisees and Hypocrites: A Public Debate over Church
Discipline in Leiden, 1586." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
88 (1997): 1-21.
Nijenhuis, Willem. "Variants within Dutch Calvinism in the Sixteenth
Century." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 12 (1979): 48-64.
R. Po-chia Hsia, and H.F.K. van Nierop, eds. Calvinism and Religious
Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age . Cambridge, 2002. Esp ch 1.
Schilling, Heinz. Religion, Political Culture and the Emergence of Early
Modern Society , article "Religion and Society in the Northern
Netherlands" [ULL]
Willem Nijenhuis. "Religious Life in the Northern Netherlands Between the Union of Utrecht (1579) and the Peace of Munster (1648)." In
Ecclesia Reformata. Studies on the Reformation , edited by W.
Nijenhuis, 125-62. Leiden: Brill, 1994.
A. Th. van Deursen, Plain Lives in a Golden Age , part IV
Week 10
Core reading:
The Remonstrant Controversy
Rowen #25-29 (pp. 114-142)
Brandt, 2:282-297
Anthony Milton, ed., The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort
(1618-1619) (Woodbridge, 2005), documents #1/2, 1/8, 1/9, 1/14,
1/24, 2/6, 2/7 (pp. 4-6, 13-16, 16-20, 28-30, 50-3, 64-6, 71-74)
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall,
1477-1806 (Oxford, 1995), chs. 18-20
Recommended : Kaplan, Calvinists and Libertines , ch. 6
Tex, Jan den. Oldenbarnevelt 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1973), vol. 2
Bangs, Carl. Arminius: a study in the Dutch Reformation (1971)
Milton, Anthony, ed., The British Delegation and the Synod of Dort
(1618-1619) (Woodbridge, 2005), introduction
Kooi, Christine. Liberty and religion church and state in Leiden's
Reformation, 1572-1620 , pp. 132-61
Foster, Herbert Darling. "Liberal Calvinism: The Remonstrants at the
Synod of Dort in 1618." Harvard Theological Review 16 (1923):
1-37.
Geyl, Pieter. The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century . 2 vols.
London: E. Benn, 1961-1964. Vol. 1, pp. 38-83.
Nobbs, Douglas. Theocracy and toleration: A study of the disputes in
Dutch Calvinism from 1600 to 1650 . Cambridge, 1938.

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Hakkenberg, Michael. "The Predestinarian Controversy in the
Netherlands, 1600-1620." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
California, Berkeley, 1989.
Muller, Richard A. God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of
Jacob Arminius . Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.
Keith D. Stanglin. Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context,
Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609 . Leiden, 2007.