Maintaining the Common Peace: Security and the Religious Peace of 1578 during the Dutch Revolt
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Erik Swart
Abstract
This article analyses the failed Dutch Religious Peace of 1578 through the lens of security. As Wayne te Brake recently argued in Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe, creating security for all parties is key for an effective religious peace. In the sixteenth century, communal security was deemed a collective responsibility. In practice this meant that religious peace – suppressing and preventing violence and threats between Protestants and Catholics – was framed as a matter of preserving the common peace. Theological questions were dissimulated or kept out of peace settlements. In 1578, the religious peace proposed that Catholics and Calvinists were to live in the Netherlands side by side, each allowed to worship publicly. Some 27 Dutch towns introduced this religious peace. Yet the municipal magistrates mostly did so reluctantly and generally declined to share political power, thus contributing to its failure. Moreover, there were different, conflicting conceptions at work concerning the common peace, as well as regarding how to keep it.
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- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
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- Von Rossen und Wagen: Das Verhältnis von Stadt und Land in der Ulmer Reformation
- The Doctrine of Justification in the Neo-Latin Biblical Poetry of Silesian Reformation Poets and their Interpretation of the Biblical Theme of the Fall of the First Parents
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- Maintaining the Common Peace: Security and the Religious Peace of 1578 during the Dutch Revolt
- Conciliar Infallibility and Error in the Thomistic Ecclesiology of St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Sebastian Münster and his Sources: The Messiah in Rome and the Convergence of Christian-Jewish Polemic and Intra-Christian Conflict
- Von Rossen und Wagen: Das Verhältnis von Stadt und Land in der Ulmer Reformation
- The Doctrine of Justification in the Neo-Latin Biblical Poetry of Silesian Reformation Poets and their Interpretation of the Biblical Theme of the Fall of the First Parents
- Teaching Romans 7 after Trent: Michael Baius and his Lecture Hall on Concupiscence and Original Sin in Early Modern Louvain (1552–1589)
- Maintaining the Common Peace: Security and the Religious Peace of 1578 during the Dutch Revolt
- Conciliar Infallibility and Error in the Thomistic Ecclesiology of St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J.
- Reforming the Holy Name: The Afterlife of the IHS in Early Modern England
