Conference paper "Irish Tears and Miserable Waldensians: Images of Religious Persecution in the Dutch Republic"

David de Boer (University of Konstanz) deals with religious conflict in 17th and 18th century Europe and especially analysis the reception of religious persecution in the Dutch Republic. In his conference paper, he is going to focus on religious discrimination in 17th century Ireland and France. In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic adherents of different faiths enjoyed a freedom to practice their religion that was unequalled in any other part of Europe. Indeed, although the sixteenth-c.