Migrations religieuses dans les Provinces- Unies avant le second Refuge

Abstract

Willem Frijhoff, Religious Migrations in the United Provinces Before the Second Refuge. According to the traditional theory, the society of the United Provinces was to have been thoroughly altered under the influence of the religious immigration of the late xvith and early xvnth centuries : immigrants from Flanders and the Brabant would have imposed the orthodox alternative of Calvinism and at the same time introduced a richer culture, turned more openly towards the outside and tinged with a stronger taste for luxury. The present paper looks at this theory through the more recent findings of Dutch historical studies. The alterations it proposes lead to outlining a few questions that would deserve to be looked into more deeply.