To the Attentive, Nonpartisan Reader: The Appeal to History and National Identity in the Religious Disputes of the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands
In the aftermath of the Arminian-Calvinist dispute in Holland, two leaders in the controversy wrote massive histories of the Dutch Reformation. Johannes Uytenbogaert, an Arminian minister in Utrecht and The Hague, published his Kerckelijcke Historie in 1646. Jacob Trigland, a Calvinist minister in A...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1997
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1997, Volume: 28, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-78 |
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| Summary: | In the aftermath of the Arminian-Calvinist dispute in Holland, two leaders in the controversy wrote massive histories of the Dutch Reformation. Johannes Uytenbogaert, an Arminian minister in Utrecht and The Hague, published his Kerckelijcke Historie in 1646. Jacob Trigland, a Calvinist minister in Amsterdam, responded in 1650 with his Kerckelijcke Geschiedenissen. Despite significant theological differences, these dueling histories shared three fundamental similarities. They established historical continuity between their doctrinal views and a Reformation heritage; they imputed a distinctly Dutch character to their religious parties; and they engaged a "nonpartisan" reader in a dialogue between history and myth. Since these histories use the same rhetorical strategy to make a persuasive case to a Dutch audience, they reflect an emerging national identity in the mid-seventeenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543223 |