The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs / / edited by Arie Gelderblom, Jan de Jong, Marc Van Vaeck.

• Superior document: Intersections ; 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Jong, Jan de,; Vaeck, Marc Van,; Gelderblom, Arie,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Situated at the crossroads of important trade routes, the bustling seaports of the Low Countries not only traded cargoes of grain and timber, silk and spices, woollen cloth and splendidly executed altarpieces, but also manuscripts and books, news, information, ideas and gossip. Thus the Netherlands were touched by the evangelical Reformation movement at an early stage and played an increasingly important role as a crossroads for religious and philosophical ideas, serving as an intermediary between different parts of the world. The third volume of Intersections is devoted to this aspect of the 'intertraffic of the mind.' Thirteen authors from various disciplines address issues such as: How 'open' were the various religious groups to new points of view and how did they react to each other's opinion? How did they get familiar with new insights and different attitudes, and what was the role of trade and traffic in spreading them? How important was the part played by the various church and civil authorities, on the different levels of local, regional and national government? Contributors include: Paul Arblaster, Pieta van Beek, Ralph Dekoninck, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé, Jason Harris, Christine Kooi, Fred van Lieburg, Guido Marnef, Mia M. Mochizuki, Henk van Nierop, Charles H. Parker, P.J. Schuffel, and J.J.V.M. de Vet.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- Introduction, Henk van Nierop -- 1. 'Totius Mundi Emporium': Antwerp as a Centre for Vernacular Bible Translations, 1523-1545, Paul Arblaster -- 2. Protestant Conversions in an Age of Catholic Reformation: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Antwerp, Guido Marnef -- 3. Imagines Peregrinantes. The International Genesis and Fate of two Biblical Picture Books (Hiël and Nadal) Conceived in Antwerp at the End of the Sixteenth Century, Ralph Dekoninck -- 4. Justus Lipsius's Treatises on the Holy Virgin, Jeanine De Landtsheer -- 5. The Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius, Jason Harris -- 6. The quandary of the Dutch Reformed church masters, Mia M. Mochizuki -- 7. 'A Serpent in the Bosom of Our Dear Fatherland'. Reformed Reaction to the Holland Mission in the Seventeenth Century, Christine Kooi -- 8. Obedience with an Attitude. Laity and Clergy in the Dutch Catholic Church of the Seventeenth Century, Charles H. Parker -- 9. Remarkable Providences. The Dutch Reception of an English Collection of Protestant Wonder Stories, Fred van Lieburg -- 10. From Minister to Sacred Orator. Homiletics and Rhetoric in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic, P.J. Schuffel -- 11. 'Ardens Martyrii Desiderium'. On the Martyrdom of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678), Pieta van Beek -- 12. Cornelis van Bynkershoek and Religion. Reflexions of a Critical Mind in The Hague in 1699 and his Reactions to Crossroads of Religious Beliefs, J.J.V.M. de Vet -- 13. L'âme amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717). Pure Love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the Crossroads of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum.