Title Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550-1620 : a Reformation of refugees / Jesse Spohnholz and Mirjam van Veen

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource Series Changing perspectives on early modern Europe, 1542-3905 ; 23 Contents Leaving home -- Foreign accommodations -- Strangers and neighbors -- Managing worship -- Living in diaspora -- Returning and remembering Summary "Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the Holy Roman Empire in the late sixteenth century. Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, widespread persecution and war forced tens of thousands of Reformed Protestants in the Netherlands to flee their homes for new communities in England and the Holy Roman Empire. This book follows those refugees who escaped to large cities and small towns to the east and southeast, up the Rhine River watershed. The comprehensive approach taken here examines these forced migrations from political, intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and linguistic perspectives, including using a large prosopographical database to track refugees' movements and experiences. It challenges scholars' claims that Reformed Protestants developed more doctrinal, volunteeristic, and well-organized churches particularly capable of surviving the challenges of persecution and exile. Instead, the authors show, refugees proved remarkably willing to compromise and adapt, even as they built new relationships with the unfamiliar people they met abroad. Based on an extensive collaboration between two senior scholars with different training and intellectual backgrounds and the team of researchers they led, this book challenges conventional wisdom about refugees and forced migrations in early modern Europe. This book is based on research conducted as part of a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), titled "The Rhineland Exiles and the Religious Landscape of the Dutch Republic, c.1550-1618. This title is available under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Religious refugees -- Holy Roman Empire Religious refugees -- Netherlands Dutch -- Holy Roman Empire -- Religious life and customs Intergroup relations -- Holy Roman Empire Reformed (Reformed Church) -- Holy Roman Empire RELIGION / History Intergroup relations. Reformed (Reformed Church) Religious refugees. SUBJECT Holy Roman Empire -- Church history -- 16th century Subject Europe -- Holy Roman Empire. Netherlands. Genre/Form Church history. Form Electronic book Author Veen, Mirjam van, author LC no. 2023034977 ISBN 9781805431626 1805431625 9781805431619 1805431617

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