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The Counter-Reformation of the Refugee: Exile and the Shaping of Catholic Militancy in the Dutch Revolt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2012

GEERT H. JANSSEN
GEERT H. JANSSEN
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Corpus Christi College, Oxford OX1 4JF; e-mail: geert.janssen@ccc.ox.ac.uk
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This article explores the Catholic exile experience in the Dutch revolt of the 1570s and 1580s. It shows how Catholic refugees negotiated their stay in places such as Cologne and Douai and developed a more militant, Tridentine identity. This process of religious radicalisation is reflected in a series of white papers by leading refugees about Catholic renewal in the contested Netherlands. This article argues that Catholic exiles became the mobilising forces of a popular Counter-Reformation movement in the southern Netherlands, thereby facilitating the eventual split of the Low Countries into a northern and southern state.

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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , October 2012 , pp. 671 - 692
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85 A number of examples are cited in Viaene, ‘Vlaamse vluchtelingen’, 7–22.

86 There are numerous examples in ARAB, Audiëntie, 1806/4; 1807/2; 2855; 2552–3.

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