History of the Dutch Reformation in Belgium & the Netherlands

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Order of Contents

The Whole History
Early & Medieval Church
Eve of the Reformation  1
Histories  3
Arminianism  2
Synod of Dort  1
After the Synod of Dort  1
On Dutch Anabaptism
American Dutch History

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The Whole History of the Netherlands

One Volume

1800’s

Grattan, Thomas Colley – The History of the Netherlands  (NY: 1855)  310 pp.  ToC

Young, Alexander – History of the Netherlands (Holland & Belgium)  (Boston, 1884)  670 pp.  ToC

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1900’s

Barker, J. Ellis – The Rise & Decline of the Netherlands: a Political & Economic History & a Study in Practical Statesmanship  (London, 1906)  490 pp.

Renier, G.J. – The Dutch Nation: an Historical Study  (Netherlands Government, 1944)  ToC

Vlekke, Bernard H. – Evolution of the Dutch Nation  (NY: Roy Publishers, 1945)  390 pp.  ToC

Barnouw, Adriaan – The Pageant of Netherlands History  (Longmans, Green, 1952)  380 pp.  ToC

Rietbergen, P.J.A.N. – A Short History of the Netherlands: from Prehistory to the Present Day  (Amersfoort, 2015)  190 pp.  Brief segments with lots of pictures.

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Multi-Volume

Davies, Charles Maurice – The History of Holland & the Dutch Nation from the Beginning of the Tenth Century to the End of the Eighteenth…, vol. 1 (900’s-1572), 2 (1573-1660), 3 (1660-1794)  (London, 1851)

Blok, Petrus Johannes – History of the People of the Netherlands, pt. 1 (Earliest to 1400), 2 (to 1559), 3 (1559-1621), 4 (1621-1700), 5 (1700’s-1800’s)  (NY: G.P. Putnams, 1898)

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History of Literature

Meijer, Reinder P. – Literature of the Low Countries: a Short History of Dutch Literature in the Netherlands & Belgium  (Assen, 1971)  390 pp.  Covers 1100’s-1900’s

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Early & Medieval Church History

Kruger, Gustav – ‘Literature on Church History in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and the Scandinavian Countries, 1914-1920, I. Early Church History’ & ‘The Medieval Church’  in Harvard Theological Review, vol. 14, no. 4 (Oct. 1921), pp. 283-374 & vol. 15 (Oct. 1922), pp. 323-405

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Eve of the Reformation

Ullmann, C. – The Reformers Before the Reformation, Principally in Germany and the Netherlands, vol. 1, 2  1863

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From the Reformation Onward

Demarest, David – History & Characteristics of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church  1856  250 pp.

Geyl, Pieter – History of the Low Countries: Episodes & Problems: the Trevelyan Lectures, 1963, with Four Additional Essays  (London, 1964)  275 pp.  ToC

Geyl (1887-1966) was a Dutch historian, well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.

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1500’s-1600’s

Riemersma, Jelle C. – Religious Factors in Early Dutch Capitalism, 1550-1650  (Hague, 1968)  ToC  ch. 7, ‘Reformed Doctrine & its Implications’

Sprunger, K.L. – Dutch Puritanism. A History of English & Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries  (Brill, 1982)

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On the Reformation

One Volume

Mears, John W. – The Beggars of Holland & the Grandees of Spain; a History of the Reformation in the Netherlands, from A.D. 1200 to 1578  (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1867)

Martyn, W. Carlos – The Dutch Reformation: a History of the Struggle in the Netherlands for Civil & Religious Liberty in the Sixteenth Century  (NY: American Tract Society, 1868)  825 pp.  ToC

Schiller, Frederick – History of the Revolt of the Netherlands  (NY: Harvard, 1895)  330 pp.

Schiller (1759–1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.

Geyl, Pieter – The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609  (1932)  314 pp.  Gives considerable space to cultural history.

“The standard work.” – Owen Chadwick

Geyl (1887-1966) was a Dutch historian, well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.

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Multi-Volume

Motley, John Lothrop – History of the United Netherlands: from the Death of William the Silent [1584] to the Twelve Years Truce–1609, vol. 1 (1584-86), 2 (1586-89), 3 (1590-1600), 4 (1600-1609)

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On the Heidelberg Catechism

Berg, J.F. – The History & Literature of the Heidelberg Catechism & of its Introduction into the Netherlands  (Philadelphia, 1863)  175 pp.

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Bibliography

Meulen, J. Vander – ‘Sources for the History of the Reformation in the Netherlands’  The American Journal of Theology, vol. 9 (1905), pp. 585-589

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1600’s

Geyl, Pieter – The Netherlands in the 17th Century, 1609-1715, 2 vols.  Buy  (1961)  Gives considerable space to cultural history.

Geyl (1887-1966) was a Dutch historian, well known for his studies in early modern Dutch history and in historiography.

Haley, K.H.D. – The Dutch in the Seventeenth Century  (NY: 1972)  215 pp.

“Now the best short introduction in English to Dutch history in this period.” – John Leslie Price

Wilson, C. – The Dutch Republic  (London, 1968)

Huizinga, Johan et al. – Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century & Other Essays  (London, 1968)  280 pp.  IA

“This brilliant essay is still indespensable’ – John Leslie Price

Special Studies

Price, John Leslie – Culture & Society in the Dutch Republic During the 17th Century  (1974)  295 pp.

Zumthor, Paul – Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland  (NY: Macmillan, 1963)

Rembrandt (1606–1669) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.

McTavish, David – Wisdom, Knowledge, Magic: The Image of the Scholar in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art  (Kingston, Canada: Queen’s Univ., 1996)  There are three introductory essays.  The main part of the book is a catalogue of Dutch paintings of scholars with introductions to them.

Vink, Markus – ‘The World’s Oldest Trade’: Dutch Slavery & Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Seventeenth Century  in Journal of World History, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 131-77  (Univ. of Hawaii, 2003)

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Biography

Butler, Charles – The Life of Hugo Grotius: with Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical & Literary History of the Netherlands  (London, 1826)  280 pp.

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First Half of the 1600’s

Edmundson, George – Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, being the Ford Lectures Delivered at Oxford in 1910  (Oxford, 1911)  180 pp.

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Arminianism

Article

Clarke, F. Stuart – ‘Arminius’ Understanding of Calvin’  1980  21 pp.

Clarke is a Methodist.

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Books

Harrison, A.W. – The Beginnings of Arminianism to the Synod of Dort  Buy  1926

Colie, Rosalie L. – Light & Enlightenment: a Study of the Cambridge Platonists & the Dutch Arminians  (Cambridge, 1957)  175 pp.

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The Synod of Dort, 1618-19

Miller, Samuel – An Introductory Essay to: The Articles of the Synod of Dort, by Thomas Scott  1856  50 pp.

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After the Synod of Dort

Cerny, Gerald – Theology, Politics & Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization: Jacques Basnage & the Baylean Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic  (Boston, 1987)  370 pp.

Basnage (1653-1723) was a celebrated French Protestant divine, minister, linguist, writer and man of civil affairs. He wrote a History of the Reformed Churches and on Jewish Antiquities.  He was pastor at Rouen, France from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he obtained leave of the king to retire to Holland. He settled at Rotterdam as a minister pensionary till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the French speaking Walloon church in Belgium.

Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. He is regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes for his massive Dictionnaire Historique et Critique which effectively constituted one of the first encyclopaedias (before the term had come into wide circulation) of ideas and their originators. In 1686, Bayle published the first two volumes of Philosophical Commentary, an early plea for toleration in religious matters. This was followed by volumes three and four in 1687 and 1688.

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1700’s

ed. Jacob & Mijnhardt – The Dutch Republic in the Eighteenth Century: Decline, Enlightenment & Revolution  (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992)  370 pp.

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On Dutch Anabaptism

Kuhler, W.J. – History of the Anabaptists in the Netherlands During the Seventeenth Century  tr. Lewis Vandermeulen for a Masters thesis  (Univ. of Alberta, 1955)

Krahn, Cornelius – Dutch Anabaptism: Origin, Spread, Life & Thought  (Herald Press, 1981)  315 pp.  Covers the whole history from the Middle Ages onward.

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American Dutch History

Tanis, James – Dutch Calvinistic Pietism in the Middle Colonies. A Study in the Life & Theology of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen  (Hague, 1968)  230 pp.

Frelinghuysen (c.1691-c.1747) was a Dutch-American, Dutch Reformed minister, theologian and the progenitor of the Frelinghuysen family in the United States of America. Frelinghuysen is most remembered for his religious contributions in the Raritan Valley during the beginnings of the First Great Awakening. Several of his descendants became influential theologians and politicians throughout American history.

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