Judith Pollmann

Andrew Paul Spicer

This lively collection of essays examines the link between public opinion and the development of changing 'Netherlandish' identities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke

Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands

Robert Stein

This volume offers a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries. It is an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.

Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650

Networks, Regions and Nations

Roberts

Professor of Early Modern Dutch History Judith Pollmann

Bergin

Naphy

Catholics, Calvinists, Mennonites, Arminians, Libertines--the Dutch Republic has always been renowned for its religious diversity. This book asks a simple but novel question: why did individual Dutch believers decide to join, or not to join, one of the many churches, and what consequences did these decisions have for their lives? It addresses this problem through the unique collection of autobiographical writings by the Utrecht lawyer Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641). Raised a Catholic, he was for some time without any religious affiliation, then became a Libertine Protestant, and ultimately developed into a committed Contra-Remonstrant Calvinist. Judith Pollmann argues that it is important to understand religious choice as a response to anxieties about the salvation of a society undergoing rapid change. She demonstrates how Dutch believers' approach to church membership enabled them to combine strong confessional partisanship with an ongoing ability to appreciate the piety of individuals of other churches, and thus proposes a new explanation for the absence of religious violence in a multi-confessional society.

The Reformation of Arnoldus Buchelius, 1565-1641

Religious Choice in the Dutch Republic

Johannes Mueller

Erika Kuijpers

Jasper van der Steen

This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe

Memory before Modernity

In Memory in Early Modern Europe Judith Pollmann offers an introduction to the way in which Europeans on the Continent and in the British Isles practised memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. In early modern Europe the past served as a main frame of moral, political, legal,religious, and social reference for people of all walks of life. Because it mattered so much, it was also hotly contested, and subject to constant reinvention. Building both on existing studies and new primary research, the first aim of this book is to account for the omnipresence, importance, andchanging uses of the past among early modern Europeans. Its second aim is to situate early modern memory more clearly in the memory studies field, and to show how relevant a better knowledge of early modern memory is to students and scholars who study the role memory practices in modern societies. Many scholars have argued that the Age of Revolutions at the end of the eighteenth century completely transformed the way in which Europeans experienced the past and came to think about the future. Memory in Early Modern Europe demonstrates that while some memory practices had indeed profoundlychanged by 1800, the emergence of new ways of engaging with the past was a more gradual process and did not put an end to traditional ways of thinking about it; rather, old and new ways came to exist side by side, and, to a surprising extent, continue to do so to our own day.

Judith Pollmann

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