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5 - Schism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2022

Christine Kooi
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Louisiana State University
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This chapter examines the most important religious consequence of the Revolt of the Netherlands, the splitting of the Low Countries into two confessional states: the Catholic Southern Netherlands and the Protestant Dutch Republic. In the Southern Netherlands Catholic reformation would pick up speed, as church, state and laity worked together to re-catholicize the region and marginalize its small Protestant minority. This would prove in the long term to be a successful effort, and the Southern Netherlands became a bulwark of Baroque Catholicism. The Dutch Republic would be an officially Protestant state with one public church, the Dutch Reformed, but its population was multiconfessional. A regime of toleration was put in place that managed both the privileged church and the private confessions. Thus the legacy of reformation continued in both states, but under very different guises.

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Print publication year: 2022

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  • Schism
  • Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University
  • Book: Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
  • Online publication: 02 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072793.006
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  • Schism
  • Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University
  • Book: Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
  • Online publication: 02 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072793.006
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  • Schism
  • Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University
  • Book: Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620
  • Online publication: 02 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072793.006
Available formats
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