Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart England

Ole Peter Grell, Open University, UK

• Contents: Introduction; A new home or a temporary abode? Dutch and Walloon exiles in England; French and Dutch congregations in the early 17th century; A friendship turned sour: Puritans and Dutch Calvinists in East Anglia; From uniformity to tolerance: the effects on the Dutch church in London of reverse patterns in English church policy, 1634-1647; Merchants and ministers: the foundations of international Calvinism; From persecution to integration: the decline of the Anglo-Dutch communities in England, 1648-1702; The schooling of the Dutch Calvinist community in London, 1550-1650; Tribute and triumph: Dutch pageants and Stuart coronations; Calvinist Agape or Godly dining club?; Plague in Elizabethan and Stuart London: the Dutch response; The attraction of Leiden University for English students of medicine and theology, 1590-1652; Index.

'this volume can be welcomed as a considerable addition to the growing literature in an important field.' The Economic History Review 'Grell makes excellent use of archival and published materials to produce a significant addition to the growing body of literature on the development of international Calvinism.' Calvin Theological Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1 ’...a fine collection of scholarly research and reflection on the Dutch and Walloon churches in Tudor-Stuart England.’ Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXIX, No. 1