Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands

Judith Pollmann is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Dutch History at the University of Leiden. She is the author of Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic. The Reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius (1565–1641) (1999) and of numerous articles on the religious history of the early modern Netherlands. She is currently working on a book on Catholic identity and religious change in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1520–1635.Andrew Spicer is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at Oxford Brookes University. His The French-speaking Reformed Community and their Church in Southampton, 1567–c. 1620 (1997) was based on his University of Southampton doctoral thesis. He has co-edited Society and Culture in the Huguenot World (2002), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (2005), Defining the Holy. Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2006), and is currently completing The Calvinist Church in Early Modern Europe.

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Judith Pollmann & Andrew Spicer1. Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt. Romantic History and its Sixteenth-Century Antecedents, Hugh Dunthorne2. A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Andrew Pettegree3. Cartography, Chorography and Patriotic Sentiment in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries, Paul Regan4. ‘And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars’. Rumour and the Revolt of the Netherlands, Henk van Nierop5. Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the Netherlands, 1550–59, Juliaan Woltjer6. ‘Superexcellat autem misericordia iudicium’. The Homily of François Richardot on the Occasion of the Solemn Announcement of the General Pardon in the Netherlands (Antwerp, 16 July 1570), Gustaaf Janssens7. Resistance and the Celebration of Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Brabant, Guido Marnef8. Justus Lipsius between War and Peace. His Public Letter on Spanish Foreign Policy and the Respective Merits of War, Peace or Truce (1595), Nicolette Mout9. Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1568–1632, Andrew Sawyer10. Public Opinion or Ritual Celebration of Concord? Politics, Religion and Society in the Competition between the Chambers of Rhetoric at Vlaardingen, 1616, Joke Spaans11. ‘Brabanters Do Fairly Resemble Spaniards After All’. Memory, Propaganda and Identity in the Twelve Years’ Truce, Judith Pollmann12. ‘Concordia res parvae crescunt’. Regional Histories and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century, Raingard Esser13. ‘So Many Painted Jezebels’. Stained Glass Windows and the Formation of an Urban Identity in the Dutch Republic, Andrew Spicer14. Group Identity and Opinion among the Huguenot Diaspora and the Challenge of Pierre Bayle’s Toleration Theory (1685–1706), Jonathan IsraelIndex

"Excellent collection". Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 39, no. 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 785-786.