Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

by Henk F.K. van Nierop

Book Overview

Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Netherlands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521173191
• ISBN13: 9780521173193
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"