The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs

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List of Illustrations Introduction, Henk van Nierop 1. 'Totius Mundi Emporium': Antwerp as a Centre for Vernacular Bible Translations, 1523-1545, Paul Arblaster 2. Protestant Conversions in an Age of Catholic Reformation: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Antwerp, Guido Marnef 3. Imagines Peregrinantes. The International Genesis and Fate of two Biblical Picture Books (Hiel and Nadal) Conceived in Antwerp at the End of the Sixteenth Century, Ralph Dekoninck 4. Justus Lipsius's Treatises on the Holy Virgin, Jeanine De Landtsheer 5. The Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius, Jason Harris 6. The quandary of the Dutch Reformed church masters, Mia M. Mochizuki 7. 'A Serpent in the Bosom of Our Dear Fatherland'. Reformed Reaction to the Holland Mission in the Seventeenth Century, Christine Kooi 8. Obedience with an Attitude. Laity and Clergy in the Dutch Catholic Church of the Seventeenth Century, Charles H. Parker 9. Remarkable Providences. The Dutch Reception of an English Collection of Protestant Wonder Stories, Fred van Lieburg 10. From Minister to Sacred Orator. Homiletics and Rhetoric in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic, P.J. Schuffel 11. 'Ardens Martyrii Desiderium'. On the Martyrdom of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678), Pieta van Beek 12. Cornelis van Bynkershoek and Religion. Reflexions of a Critical Mind in The Hague in 1699 and his Reactions to Crossroads of Religious Beliefs, J.J.V.M. de Vet 13. L'ame amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717). Pure Love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the Crossroads of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Agnes Guiderdoni-Brusle Notes on the Editors of this Volume List of Contributors Index Nominum