Catholiques au défi de la Réforme

In 1636, Pieter Saenredam drew an image of a Catholic altar in a whitewashed Calvinist church. The church was in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and the drawing was one of several in which Saenredam depicted physical remnants of Catholicism in a city that had gone over to the Reformation more than half a century earlier. In his new book, Bertrand Forclaz shows that such remnants were no mere figments of the artist’s imagination. The Catholic faith did more than survive in seventeenth-century Utrecht, which before the Reformation had been the seat of a bishopric and briefly an archbishopric. The city became once again a bastion of Catholicism, even as it simultaneously became, especially with the founding in 1636 of Utrecht University, a bastion of Calvinist orthodoxy. How it did so, and how Calvinists and Catholics there lived together, are the subjects of this carefully researched and well argued book

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