From radicals to survivors. Strasbourg`s religious nonconformists over two generations, 1525-1570.
This is the first extensive study of Strasbourg`s diverse religious nonconformists beyond 1543, and the first to explore their continuities and discontinuities over two generations. Based on vast archival records in Strasbourg and secondary sources, it moves beyond the political and theological emph... More info
`Verschooninghe van de roomsche afgoderye`. De polemiek van Calvijn met nicodemieten, in het bijzonder met Coo...
With English summary. John Calvin (1509-1564) and Dirck Volckerts Coornhert (1522-1590) are both exponents of movements which have profoundly influenced Dutch society. Calvin was convinced that faith required a church, whereas Coornhert held that one could be a good believer without a church. The po... More info
Protestantism crossing the seas: A short-title catalogue of English books printed before 1801 illustrating the...
The collection of English books printed before 1801 in the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit at Amsterdam is one of the largest collections of such books outside the English-speaking world, and by far the largest in the Netherlands. The collection numbers 5,600 titles and covers all subje... More info
De Nederlandse Bijbelvertalingen 1522-1545 | Dutch translations of the Bible 1522-1545.
The aim of this study is to establish the text tradtion of the Dutch Bible translations published between 1522 and 1545. Pp. 243-511 contain the bibliography which describes 80 editions in great detail. With introduction and comprehensive summary in English. More info
Woorden van een gezond verstand. De invloed van de Verlichting op de in het Nederlands uitgegeven preken van 1...
The role of religion in Dutch Enlightenment is reconstructed here by analysing the 1.753 printed sermons in Dutch published between 1750 and 1800. These are extensively described in the second part of this study (pp. 445-701). The bibliography covers all major collections in the Netherlands and abro... More info
Christopher Plantin`s Books of Hours: Illustration and Production.
An in-depth examination of Plantin`s large-scale production of books of hours, comprising a survey of their illustration as well as accounts of the general process by which they were printed. A pioneer study of great interest both from the art-historical and from the bibliographical point of view. C... More info
Johannes Cochlaeus, Philippicae I-VII. Edited with Introduction and Commentary.
I. Text. - II. Introduction - Commentary - Bibliography - Appendices. The `Philippics` - originally published between 1534 and 1549 - were directed against the Reformation, and notably against Philipp Melanchthon. More info
Reformierte Scholastik und patristische Theologie. Die Bedeutung des Väterbeweises in der Institutio Theologia...
François Turrettini (1623-1687), a representative of Reformed scholastics, was an earnest defender of Calvinist orthodoxy. The Institutio theologicae elencticaeis is his principal dogmatic work. More info