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Title

Calvinist exiles in Tudor and Stuart England / Ole Peter Grell.

Author

Grell, Ole Peter.

Publication

Hants, Eng. ; Scolar Press : Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., [1996], ©1996.

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Description

x, 249 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• This study provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of the exiled Calvinist communities who settled in southern England in general, and in London in particular, during the second half of the sixteenth century. Not only does it locate the foreign Reformed churches within their continental and English religious context, but it also analyses their relationship with the Church of England and English Puritans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
• Furthermore, it offers a new insight into the role and significance of immigrant Calvinist merchants in London, not only for their communities, but for the economic and cultural life of their hosts.
• It also contains chapters on the educational concerns of these communities such as schooling and university education, in which the Dutch and Walloon churches played a prominent part by directing English students to the newly-founded University of Leiden, which, by the early seventeenth century, had become renowned as the greatest Reformed seat of learning.

Subjects

• England > Church history > 16th century
• Immigrants > England > History > 16th century
• Reformed (Reformed Church) > England > History > 16th century
• Dutch > England > History > 16th century

Note

• Some of the essays were previously published in various other publications.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. A new home or a temporary abode? Dutch and Walloon exiles in England -- 2. The French and Dutch congregations in London in the early seventeenth century -- 3. A friendship turned sour: Puritans and Dutch Calvinists in East Anglia, 1603-1660 -- 4. From uniformity to tolerance: the effects on the Dutch church in London of reverse patterns in English church policy, 1634-1647 -- 5. Merchants and ministers: the foundations of international Calvinism -- 6. From persecution to integration: the decline of the Anglo-Dutch communities in England, 1648-1702 -- 7. The schooling of the Dutch Calvinist community in London, 1550-1650 -- 8. Tribute and triumph: Dutch pageants and Stuart coronations -- 9. Calvinist agape or Godly dining club? -- 10. Plague in Elizabethan and Stuart London: the Dutch response -- 11. The attraction of Leiden University for English students of medicine and theology, 1590-1642.

ISBN

1859283403 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96027875

OCLC

ocm34958833

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries