Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in Utrecht 1578-1620

by Marion Kaplan and Benjamin J. Kaplan

After the Reformation, the Dutch Republic emerged as the most religiously tolerant country in seventeenth-century Europe. Benjamin Kaplan examines the reasons behind this phenomenon, focusing on the struggle of Calvinist reformers to realize their theocratic aspirations in the Netherlands, and the fierce opposition offered to them by a large, amorphous group of people known as 'Libertines'. Nowhere was this struggle more intense than in Utrecht, a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198202830
• ISBN13: 9780198202837
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.