Victoria Christman, Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Modern Antwerp (Rochester NY, 2015)
(2017) The English Historical Review — Vol. 132, p. 1570-1571 (2017)
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- It has long been known that Antwerp, the mushrooming metropolis of the early sixteenth-century Low Countries, was a more congenial location for religious dissent than the letter of its laws might suggest. Rose Hickman’s description of the governor of the English House in Antwerp — ‘though he was a Papist yet he was no persecutor nor cruel Papist, for he was contented to bear with my husband so far as he might without being seen to do it’ — would have fitted many others in positions of authority in the city. In this book, Victoria Christman examines this attitude, and its limitations, through a number of instances in which the civic magistrates of Antwerp put the law into practice selectively, reluctantly or not at all.
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Arblaster, P. (2017). Victoria Christman, Pragmatic Toleration: The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Modern Antwerp (Rochester NY, 2015). The English Historical Review, 132, 1570-1571. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cex289 (Original work published 2017)