Vrome daden en gedachten. Een revisionistische kijk op het katholieke verleden van Nederland

Author(s)

  • A.-L. Van Bruaene

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.6894

Keywords:

Roman Catholicism

Abstract

L. Bogaers, Aards, betrokken en zelfbewust. De verwevenheid van cultuur en religie in katholiek Utrecht, 1300-1600
Ch.H., Parker, Faith on the Margins. Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age

 

Pious Deeds and Thoughts. A Revisionist View of the Netherlands’ Catholic Past
This contribution comments upon the renewed interest in the Catholic past of the Netherlands. It discusses two recent books by Llewellyn Bogaers and Charles H. Parker on late medieval and early modern Catholicism, respectively. Both authors reject a teleological conception of history and propose studying the devotion of laymen, laywomen and the clergy from within. Both studies can be considered as part of a wider international – partly anthropologically inspired – trend to reassess the history of Catholicism. The author of this contribution applauds these developments but advocates a stronger integration of the study of religious practices on the one hand, and the study of religious experiences and ideas on the other hand.

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Published

2009-01-01

Issue

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Review Articles

How to Cite

Bruaene, A.-L. V. (2009). Vrome daden en gedachten. Een revisionistische kijk op het katholieke verleden van Nederland. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 124(1), 57-64. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.6894