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"a fascinating amount of detail * Times Literary Supplement * Professor Pollman's book redefines our understanding both of Catholic Reform and the Dutch Revolt. The work, implicitly and explicitly, maps out a research agenda that will engage historians for a long time to come. * Jan Machielsen, English Historical Review * a powerful contribution to the historiography of Catholicism. * Marc R. Forster, Low Countries Historical Review * This is an excellent study of the impact of the Revolt on Catholic laypeople living in the Habsburg Netherlands from the beginning of the Reformation until 1635. This book's unique contribution to the historiography is its illumination of lay Catholic activism and the collaboration of laity and clergy specifically in the Spanish Netherlands. ... one of the clearest and most readable narratives of the complex series of events referred to as the ""Revolt"". * Amanda Pipkin, The Sixteenth Century Journal *"

a fascinating amount of detail * Times Literary Supplement * Professor Pollman's book redefines our understanding both of Catholic Reform and the Dutch Revolt. The work, implicitly and explicitly, maps out a research agenda that will engage historians for a long time to come. * Jan Machielsen, English Historical Review * a powerful contribution to the historiography of Catholicism. * Marc R. Forster, Low Countries Historical Review * This is an excellent study of the impact of the Revolt on Catholic laypeople living in the Habsburg Netherlands from the beginning of the Reformation until 1635. This book's unique contribution to the historiography is its illumination of lay Catholic activism and the collaboration of laity and clergy specifically in the Spanish Netherlands. ... one of the clearest and most readable narratives of the complex series of events referred to as the ""Revolt"". * Amanda Pipkin, The Sixteenth Century Journal *

a fascinating amount of detail Times Literary Supplement

This is an excellent study of the impact of the Revolt on Catholic laypeople living in the Habsburg Netherlands from the beginning of the Reformation until 1635. This book's unique contribution to the historiography is its illumination of lay Catholic activism and the collaboration of laity and clergy specifically in the Spanish Netherlands. ... one of the clearest and most readable narratives of the complex series of events referred to as the Revolt . * Amanda Pipkin, The Sixteenth Century Journal * a powerful contribution to the historiography of Catholicism. * Marc R. Forster, Low Countries Historical Review * Professor Pollman's book redefines our understanding both of Catholic Reform and the Dutch Revolt. The work, implicitly and explicitly, maps out a research agenda that will engage historians for a long time to come. * Jan Machielsen, English Historical Review * a fascinating amount of detail * Times Literary Supplement *

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Judith Pollmann was educated at the University of Amsterdam and the Warburg Institute in London. From 1995-2005 she taught early modern European history at Oxford University, before relocating to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, where she is currently Professor of the History and Culture of the Dutch Republic. Pollmann has published widely on the cultural and religious history of the early modern Low Countries and on the Dutch Revolt. She is currently directing a research project entitled Memory, oblivion and identity in the early modern Low Countries, 1566-1700.

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