Britain and The Netherlands

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Relations between Church and State in Britain and the Netherlands: an Introductory Essay

   • J. A. Bornewasser

   Pages 1-21

3. The State and Development of Protestantism in English Towns, 1520–1603

   • C. Cross

   Pages 22-44

4. Building Heaven in Hell’s Despite: The Early History of the Reformation in the Towns of the Low Countries

   • A. C. Duke

   Pages 45-75

5. The Family of Love (Huis der Liefde) and the Dutch Revolt

   • N. Mout

   Pages 76-93

6. Arminianism and English Culture

   • N. Tyacke

   Pages 94-117

7. Calvinism and National Consciouness: the Dutch Republic as the New Israel

   • G. Groenhuis

   Pages 118-133

8. Contrasting and Converging Patterns: Relations between Church and State in Western Europe, 1660-1715

   • D. J. Roorda

   Pages 134-153

9. The Authority of the Dutch State over the Churches, 1795-1853

   • J. A. Bornewasser

   Pages 154-175

10. ‘Bridled Emotion:’ English Free Churchmen, Culture and Catholic Values c. 1870 to c. 1945

    • C. Binfield

    Pages 176-206

11. ‘Verzuiling’: A Confessional Road to Secularization. Emancipation and the Decline of Political Catholicism, 1920-1970.

    • J. Bank

    Pages 207-230

12. ‘A Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State’: Regional Government and Religious Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1921-39

    • P. Buckland

    Pages 231-242

13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-249

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The theme chosen for the seventh conference of Dutch and British historians - relations between Church and State in the two countries since the Reformation - cannot pretend to any originality. A subject so germane to the history of Europe, and indeed of those parts of the world colonized by Europeans and evangelized by the Christian churches, has naturally attracted the attention of numerous scholars. The particular attraction of this study of the action and reaction of Church and State in Britain and the Netherlands lies in the scope it offers historians and political scientists for making comparisons be­ tween two states, both of which endorsed the Protestant Reformation while rejecting absolutism. But the dissimilarities are quite as striking. In the Netherlands the Reformed Church came to hold a curiously equivocal position, being neither an established Church in the English sense nor an independent sect. Yet even after the formal separation of Church and State in 1796 and the rise to political prominence of Dutch Catholicism, ties of sentiment continued to link the Dutch nation and the Reformed Church for some time to come. Within England the Anglican Church maintained its constitutional standing as the established Church and its social position as the Church of the 'Establishment', though it had to recognize a non-episcopal estab­ lished Church of Scotland and accept its disestablishment in Ireland and Wales.

• 1870
• English
• Europe
• Great Britain
• Ireland
• Nation
• building
• consciousness
• culture
• emotion
• history
• history of literature
• protestantism
• reformation
• time

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