Negotiating Differences: Word, Image and Religion in the Dutch Republic (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

Els Stronks

ISBN 10: 9004204237 / ISBN 13: 9789004204232

Published by Brill Academic Pub, Leiden, 2011

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8vo pp. xx 341."This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Republic by tracing developments in illustrated religious literature. The highly controversial appropriation of textual and visual elements across confessional boundaries allows a close look at unexpectedly problematic confessional negotiations".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Differences: Word, Image and Religion in the Dutch Republic (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004204237
• ISBN 13: 9789004204232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the Dutch Republic by tracing the literary responses to one of the key controversies between Protestants and Catholics – the role of religious imagery in worship. Why and to what extent were people in the Republic willing to reconcile theological differences and combine elements from their own religious cultural practices with those of another?
The intermingling of practices, the author shows, was unexpectedly complicated in the Republic. Restraints were imposed on the use of images in religious literature of all denominations till 1650. Evidence of negotiations appears after 1650, however, as Dutch Protestants absorbed significant aspects of Catholic visual traditions into their own. Religious toleration had clearly become a matter of sharing rather than enduring for the Protestants, but retained features of a monologue since Dutch Catholics were then developing a new, idiosyncratic identity of their own.

About the Author

Els Stronks, dr. (1965) in Dutch Early Modern Literature, is Professor of Early Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University. She has published extensively on Dutch religious literature and its images, and on Dutch emblematics (see http://emblems.let.uu.nl)