Benjamin J. Kaplan is Professor of Dutch History at University College LondonBob Moore is Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at the University of SheffieldHenk van Nierop is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History at the University of AmsterdamJudith Pollmann is professor of early modern Dutch history at Leiden University

• 1. Shifting identities in hostile settings: towards a comparison of the Catholic communities in early modern Britain and the Northern Netherlands – Willem Frijhoff 2. Cooperative Confessionalisation: lay-clerical collaboration in Dutch Catholic Communities during the Golden Age – Charles H. Parker 3. ‘So they become contemptible’: clergy and laity in a mission territory – Michael Mullett 4. Integration vs. segregation: religiously mixed marriage and the `Verzuiling’ model of Dutch society – Benjamin J. Kaplan 5. ‘Getting on’ and ‘getting along’ in parish and town: Catholics and their neighbours in England – William Sheils6. Burying the dead; reliving the past: ritual, resentment and sacred space in the Dutch Republic – Judith Pollmann 7. Beads, books and bare ruined choirs: transmutations of Catholic ritual life in Protestant England – Alexandra Walsham 8. The southern Netherlands connection: networks of support and patronage – Paul Arblaster 9. Priests, nuns, presses and prayers: the southern Netherlands and the contours of English Catholicism – Claire Walker 10. Second-class yet self-confident: Catholics in the Dutch Generality Lands – Charles de Mooij11.Between conflict and coexistence: the Catholic community in Ireland as a 'visible underground church' in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – Ute Lotz-Heumann12. Orphans and students: recruiting boys and girls for the Holland Mission – Joke Spaans 13.Harbourers and housekeepers: Catholic women in England 1570–1720 – Marie B. Rowlands 14.Paintings for clandestine Catholic churches in the Republic: typically Dutch? – Xander van Eck15.Cultures of dissent: English Catholics and the visual arts – Richard L. Williams16.Conclusion: Catholic communities in Protestant states, Britain and the Netherlands c.1580–1720 – Ben Kaplan and Judith PollmannIndex

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