Patrons of the Old Faith

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-33753-4
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 650 g

Reihe: Brill

Patrons of the Old Faith is the first full-length study on the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic. Based on a detailed prosopographical analysis and through the examination of their marriage strategies, interaction with Protestants, religiosity and contributions to the Holland Mission, Jaap Geraerts shows how the behaviour of the Catholic nobility was highly distinctive and differed from their co-religionists and Protestant peers as it was influenced by a specific set of noble and Catholic values. Due to the synthesis of their noble and confessional identities, the Dutch Catholic nobility in Utrecht and Guelders acted as patrons of their faith and were instrumental for the survival of Catholicism in the Dutch Republic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geraerts, Jaap

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgement ix
List of Figures and Tables xi
List of Abbreviations xii xiii
Introduction 1
1 A Restrictive Marriage Strategy 29
2 Interaction with Protestants 71
3 Religiosity 129
4 Shaping the Missio Hollandica 190
Conclusions. Confessional Nobilities in Post-Reformation Europe 250
Appendix A: Charitable Donations Made by Catholic Nobles 267
Appendix B: Priests Housed by Catholic Nobles 269
Appendix C: Godparents of the family De Wael van Vronestein 273
Bibliography 276
Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Jaap Geraerts, Ph.D. (2015), University College London, is Research Associate at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. He has published on the ‘radical’ Reformation, early modern Catholicism, and the Catholic nobility in the Dutch Republic.