The Education of a Christian Society: Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands

by Amos,N. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780754600015
• ISBN10: 0754600017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined. At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestantism during the course of the century.This collection of ten new studies, all by specialists active in the field, explores the full ramifications of these links, from the first intellectual contacts inspired by the growth of Humanism to the planting of established Protestant churches. With contributions from specialists in art history, literary studies and history, the volume also underscores the vitality of new research in this field and points the way to several new departures in the field of Reformation and Renaissance studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures and maps	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Abbreviations	xiii
Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands	1	(18)
Andrew Pettegree
The role of English humanists in the Reformation up to 1559	19	(22)
Richard Rex
From institutio to educatio: the origin of political education in the Habsburg Netherlands	41	(21)
Karin Tilmans
The piety of Henry VIII	62	(27)
George Bernard
Dialogue, resistance and accommodation: conservative literary responses to the Henrician Reformation	89	(23)
Greg Walker
The exile literature of the early Reformation: `Obedience to God and the King'	112	(19)
Christopher J. Bradshaw
Religious propaganda in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and drawings	131	(33)
Ilja M. Veldman
Reformation, Counter-Reformation and literary propaganda in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century: the case of Brother Cornelis	164	(29)
Karel Bostoen
The dynamics of Reformed militancy in the Low Countries: the Wonderyear	193	(18)
Guido Marnef
Clan, kin and Kirk: the Campbells and the Scottish Reformation	211	(32)
Jane Dawson
The intellectual and cultural context of the Reformation in the Northern Netherlands	243	(20)
Wiebe Bergsma
Index	263