Table Of ContentCultures of Calvinism in Early
Modern Europe
Cultures of Calvinism
in Early Modern Europe
Edited by
CRAWFORD GRIBBEN AND GRAEME MURDOCK
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Names: Gribben, Crawford, editor.
Title: Cultures of Calvinism in early modern Europe /
edited by Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock.
Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019013216 | ISBN 9780190456283 (hardback) |
ISBN 9780190456306 (updf) | ISBN 9780190456313 (online) |
ISBN 9780190066185 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Calvin, Jean, 1509-1 564— Influence. |
Calvinism. | Europe—H istory.
Classification: LCC BX9418 .C85 2019 | DDC 284/. 24— dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Crawford Gribben and Graeme Murdock
PART I: CULTURES OF THE WORD
1. Describing Calvinism 15
Todd Rester
2. Calvinism, Conversion, and the Science of the Self 37
Crawford Gribben
3. Calvinism and Education 57
D. G. Hart
4. Calvin, Calvinism, and Philosophy 76
Paul Helm
5. Calvinism and Literature 94
Mark S. Sweetnam
PART II: VISUAL AND PERFORMING CULTURES
6. Calvinism and Theater in Early Modern England and the Dutch
Republic 117
Freya Sierhuis and Adrian Streete
7. Calvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion 138
Angela Vanhaelen
PART III: CULTURES OF BEHAVIOR
8. Exiles and Calvinist Identity 157
Mirjam van Veen
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9. Calvinism and War 171
Christine Kooi
10. Calvinism and Moral Discipline 186
Graeme Murdock
Notes 205
Index 249
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank Cynthia Read, Executive Editor at Oxford University Press,
for her encouragement in this project, and to thank all the contributors to
this volume for their assistance.
Contributors
Crawford Gribben teaches early modern British history at Queen’s University
Belfast. He is the author of several books on early modern religious history, including
John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat (2016).
D. G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College in Michigan and is the author most re-
cently of Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken (2017).
Paul Helm is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s
College, London. Among his books is John Calvin’s Ideas (2004).
Christine Kooi is Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author most
recently of Calvinists and Catholics in Holland’s Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (2012).
Graeme Murdock is Associate Professor in European History at Trinity College Dublin.
He has published on the history of religion in Central Europe and France during the early
modern period.
Todd Rester is Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological
Seminary, Pennsylvania. His research explores the intellectual and doctrinal histories of
faith, mission, war, rights, and power in Roman Catholic and Protestant contexts.
Freya Sierhuis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of York.
She is the author of The Literature of the Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the
Stage in the Dutch Republic (2015) and the co- editor of Passions and Subjectivity in Early
Modern Europe (2013).
Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, 1500– 1780, at the University of
Glasgow. His books include Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England (2009),
Apocalypse and Anti- Catholicism in Seventeenth-C entury English Drama (2017), and the
edited volume, Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570– 1625
(2012).
Mark S. Sweetnam is Assistant Professor in English with Digital Humanities at Trinity
College Dublin. His research interests include literature and theology, with a particular
focus on early modern writing.
Mirjam van Veen is Professor of Church History at the VU (Vrije Universiteit)
Amsterdam. She has published widely on a range of subjects including David Joris,
Sebastian Castellio, and the history of Dutch tolerance.
Angela Vanhaelen is Professor of Art History at McGill University. Her most recent book,
The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic (2012), was the winner
of the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize.
