This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the Dutch Republic by tracing the literary responses to one of the key controversies between Protestants and Catholics - the role of religious imagery in worship. Why and to what extent were people in the Republic willing to reconcile theological differences and combine elements from their own religious cultural practices with those of another? The intermingling of practices, the author shows, was unexpectedly complicated in the Republic. Restraints were imposed on the use of images in religious literature of all denominations till 1650. Evidence of negotiations appears after 1650, however, as Dutch Protestants absorbed significant aspects of Catholic visual traditions into their own. Religious toleration had clearly become a matter of sharing rather than enduring for the Protestants, but retained features of a monologue since Dutch Catholics were then developing a new, idiosyncratic identity of their own.

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Els Stronks; ProQuest (Firm)

E. Stronks, Els Stronks

by Els Stronks

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, Leiden, 2011

Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2011

Netherlands, Netherlands

Illustrated, PT, 2011

2011 12 30

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Memory of the World Librarian: Quintus

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

CONTENTS 6
List of Illustrations 10
Preface 20
PART ONE INTRODUCTION 22
Chapter One Literature as Reflection of Religious Identities 24
The Case of Willem Teellinck 24
The Nature of Peaceful Coexistence in the Republic 29
Scope of Analysis 39
The International and Historical Context 41
The Research Corpus 43
Synopsis of Chapters 51
Chapter Two Aspects of Visual Culture: Word, Image and Religion 54
The Hierarchy of the Senses 56
The Role of Emotions 59
Representation of the Invisible 62
PART TWO BOUNDARIES 70
Chapter Three Restrictions and Sensibilities, 1600–1630 72
Illustrated Bibles and Picture Bibles from Antwerp 72
Religious Emblems from Antwerp 75
Illustrated Bibles and Picture Bibles in the Republic 85
The Religious Emblem in the Republic 90
Cats’ Alternative 93
Heyns’ Effort to Subvert 100
The Widespread Preference for the Word 115
Religious Toleration and Religious Identities 118
Chapter Four Diverging Roads, 1630–1653 124
A New Fashion in Picture Bibles 124
Aspects of Visual Culture: The Literal Bible Illustration and the Value of Religious Art 132
Applications of Emblematic, Allegorical Imagery 137
The Dutch Reformed: The Disappearance of the Image 138
Religious Emblems: Bartholomeus Hulsius’ Emblemata Sacra 138
Aspects of Visual Culture: Gisbertus Voetius as Trendsetter 150
Emblemata Nuda 156
Remonstrants and Anabaptists: The Search for an Alternative 163
The Pilgrimage Motif 163
The Catholics: The First Products 169
Traces of the Pia Desideria 171
Aspects of Visual Culture: Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia 177
Controversies Surrounding the Catholics 182
Religious Toleration and Religious Identities 192
Chapter Five Windows of Opportunity, 1653–1678 194
New Additions to Picture Bibles 194
Appropriation of Emblematic, Allegorical Imagery 199
Petrus Serrarius’ Goddelycke aandachten 201
The Gradual Shift of the Dutch Reformed 204
Emblematic Elements on Title Pages and in Printer’s Devices 204
Simonides’ Verhemelde ziele and Het rechte gebruyck van desHeeren H. avondmael 208
Polemic Features of the Catholic Identity:Everard Meyster’s De kruys-leer ter zaligheydt 220
Limits to the Protestants’ Appropriation:François van Hoogstraten’s Voorhof der zielen 230
New Enemies: The Atheists 235
Religious Toleration and Religious Identities 237
PART THREE TRANSFORMATIONS 238
Chapter Six Appropriation, 1678–1725 240
New Plates for Picture Bibles 240
New Productions 250
Protestant Applications of Allegorical, Emblematic Imagery 253
A New Direction for the Protestant Emblem: Jan Luyken 254
In the Footsteps of Luyken 262
Restrictions: The Mystical Union 278
Figurative Tendencies among Protestants 282
Aspects of Visual Culture: A Painter’s Figurative Reading of the Bible 282
Theological Emblems 285
Biblical Emblems 286
The Catholic Production 287
Religious Toleration and Religious Identities 290
Chapter Seven Annexation, 1725–1795 292
Picture Bibles and Biblical Illustrations for Protestants 292
Picture Bibles for Children 299
Idiosyncratic-Protestant Forms of the Religious Emblem 301
Theological Emblems and Theological Emblematic Handbooks 302
Biblical Emblems 305
Realistic Protestant Emblems 307
Religious Emblems for Children 312
The Catholic Production 318
Religious Toleration and Religious Identities 319
Epilogue 322
Bibliography 326
Index 356
ISSN,1573-4188,ISBN,9789004204232
BRILL NV

This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Republic by tracing developments in illustrated religious literature. The highly controversial appropriation of textual and visual elements across confessional boundaries allows a close look at unexpectedly problematic confessional negotiations

2012-02-04