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Book SynopsisThis study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic, looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, focusing on the realities of Catholic existence. -- .
Table of Contents1. Shifting identities in hostile settings: towards a comparison of the Catholic communities in early modern Britain and the Northern Netherlands – Willem Frijhoff
2. Cooperative Confessionalisation: lay-clerical collaboration in Dutch Catholic Communities during the Golden Age – Charles H. Parker
3. ‘So they become contemptible’: clergy and laity in a mission territory – Michael Mullett
4. Integration vs. segregation: religiously mixed marriage and the `Verzuiling’ model of Dutch society – Benjamin J. Kaplan
5. ‘Getting on’ and ‘getting along’ in parish and town: Catholics and their neighbours in England – William Sheils
6. Burying the dead; reliving the past: ritual, resentment and sacred space in the Dutch Republic – Judith Pollmann
7. Beads, books and bare ruined choirs: transmutations of Catholic ritual life in Protestant England – Alexandra Walsham
8. The southern Netherlands connection: networks of support and patronage – Paul Arblaster
9. Priests, nuns, presses and prayers: the southern Netherlands and the contours of English Catholicism – Claire Walker
10. Second-class yet self-confident: Catholics in the Dutch Generality Lands – Charles de Mooij
11.Between conflict and coexistence: the Catholic community in Ireland as a 'visible underground church' in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – Ute Lotz-Heumann
12. Orphans and students: recruiting boys and girls for the Holland Mission – Joke Spaans
13.Harbourers and housekeepers: Catholic women in England 1570–1720 – Marie B. Rowlands
14.Paintings for clandestine Catholic churches in the Republic: typically Dutch? – Xander van Eck
15.Cultures of dissent: English Catholics and the visual arts – Richard L. Williams
16.Conclusion: Catholic communities in Protestant states, Britain and the Netherlands c.1580–1720 – Ben Kaplan and Judith Pollmann
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