Conflict, accommodation, evasion survival strategies of English Reformed communities in the early Dutch Republic

This thesis is a study of four English Reformed (Puritan) communities in the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century. It examines the political, religious, and social tensions present at the local, national, and international level that were present during this period, and the strategies developed by the leadership of each of the four communities in response to these tensions. It addresses the old prevailing historiography of Reformation history, with its preponderance of one size fits all labeling, and shows that when examined at the local level, Reformation history is not only extremely... Mehr ...