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Religious Diversity and Everyday Ethics in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch City Kampen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Frank van der Pol
Affiliation:
Professor of church history at Theologische Universiteit van de Gereformeerde Kerken, Kampen, the Netherlands.

Extract

In the century when heretics in the Netherlands were persecuted, the Dutch Revolt occurred, and events took place that ultimately led to the National Synod of Dordrecht (1618–19), religion and society were clearly interwoven. Research on this period is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, such as the one used, to remarkable effect, in the recent studies on the cities of the Reformation (Städteforschung). In the Netherlands, the study of the Reformation in urban settings has also become an important field, one in which both church and “secular” historians have made valuable contributions. Historical work on the period after the Synod of Dordrecht displays, however, far less interest in the relationship between religion and society. Despite this shift in historical focus, religion remained a formative factor in the public life of the Dutch Republic long after 1620. The established church retained its central position in society and continued to influence the design and the development of Dutch culture. The religious community regarded its norms as the basis of civil society. The church wanted to create a social practice in which religion played an influential role in urban life and in the ethics of everyday living.

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139. In 1688 the deputies of the synod reported that the civil authorities of Overijssel (Ridderschap en Steden) had reprinted the placard against cursing and falsely swearing and that they had sent the placard to the deputies of the synod. GAK, ACK 2, AS Steenwijk 1688, sessio 3, art. 9.Google Scholar

140. About this, Oomius as a deputy of the synod also petitioned. GAK, ACK 2, AS Kampen 1682, sessio 4, art. 27; Deventer 1685, sessio 5, art. 27; Steenwijk 1688, sessio 4, art. 21; and Zwolle 1691, sessio 4, art. 18.Google Scholar

141. In 1702 the deputies reported that the almanacs had not yet been altered on the issue of the cattle-markets on Sunday. GAK, ACK 2, AS Kampen 1702, sessio 6, art. 38.Google Scholar

142. In 1691 the synodal deputies reported that they had done their duty in this matter, as appears from an “appointment“ of Ridderschap en Steden. GAK, ACK 2, AS Zwolle 1691, sessio 2, art. 3.Google Scholar

143. GAK, ACK 2, AS Zwolle 1691, sessio 2, art. 8.Google Scholar

144. GAK, OA 245: 142rv, publication 1682.Google Scholar

145. GAK, OA 245: 162r.Google Scholar

146. GAK, AHGK 11, 17.10, 19.11.1656; also 14.11.1657.Google Scholar

147. GAK, OA 2239, 2d par.Google Scholar

148. GAK, AHGK 11, 18.1, 19.3, 14.5, 8.11.1643; 26.5.1644.Google Scholar

149. GAK, AHGK 11, 29.1; 7, 12 and 30.3, 2.4.1645.Google Scholar

150. GAK, AHGK 12, 27.2, 6 and 29.8.1656; 10.7.1657. Other, later petitions: GAK, AHGK 13, 24.5.1671; AHGK 11, 29.11.1676.Google Scholar

151. GAK, AHGK 12, 14, 19 and 26.6.1661.Google Scholar

152. GAK, AHGK 12, 24.9 and 15.10.1662.Google Scholar

153. GAK, RA 2, 3 and 4.Google Scholar

154. GAK, RA 3, 31.12.1619.Google Scholar

155. GAK, AHGK 11, 26.1.1642.Google Scholar

156. GAK, AHGK 11, 16.1.1642.Google Scholar

157. GAK, OA 2239, ordinance on orderliness in the city, ca. 1625, par. 8: No one is allowed to enter into concubinage; no one is permitted to abandon the person to whom he is married. Marriages must be performed in public and in an orderly manner. GAK, RA 2 records some instances of adultery: 9.2.1602 (2x); 13.11.1604 (2x); GAK, RA 3 records cases of various transgressions: illicit sexual acts: 9 and 29.1, 26.8.1624 (2x); 6.12.1625; 28.1.1626(2x); 31.8.1633; 28.7 and 19.12.1635; 28.2.1640; 18.8.1651; 30.8.1653; 30.12.1654; 6.1, 4.2.1660; 6.4, 29.6.1665; 11.4.1668; 25.6.1673; keeping or visiting a brothel: 8 and 16.1.1612; 26.8.1624; 30.7.1627; 4.5.1642; 6.4.1665; living together outside of marriage: 12.3.1608; 8.8.1622; 3.1.1632 (2x); 1.11, 19.12.1635; breaking marriage vows: 3.1.1632; adultery: 8.1.1612; 13.7.1614; 27.12.1616; 8.4.1622; 28.1.1626; 11.2, 30.7.1627; 1631 (day and month not indicated); 18.7.1638; 4.5.1642; 17.1.1643; 23.9.1644 (2x); 29.4.1695.Google Scholar

158. GAK, AHGK 12, 10.11.1654 (three cases of divorce) and 26.3.1656 (one divorce).Google Scholar

159. GAK, RA 3, 12.3.1608.Google Scholar

160. GAK, AHGK 11, 25 and 27.10.1643.Google Scholar

161. GAK, RA 3, 3.1.1632.Google Scholar

162. GAK, AHGK 11, 5.1.1642: three women in a house on the Burgwal; 1.7.1642: brothel in Brunnepe.Google Scholar

163. GAK, AHGK 13, 19.6.1668. The case involved Willem Peterz, residing on Geerstraat.Google Scholar

164. The civic authorities asked for the consistory's advice on the casus matrimonialis of a citizen who wanted to marry his niece. The church authorities were asked if any fundamental objections to permitting such a marriage to children of a brother or a sister could be found in God's Word. The church council pronounced its judgment that, in God's Word, such a marriage is not forbidden. GAK, AHGK 13, 1.2.1671.Google Scholar

165. GAK, RA 3, 26.8.1606; 8.4.1607; 25.9.1650; 6.8.59.Google Scholar

166. GAK, AHGK 11, 29.4.1642.Google Scholar

167. GAK, AHGK 11, 16 and 24.1, 4.2.1644.Google Scholar

168. GAK, AHGK 11, 30.9.1642; 29.3, 26.4.1643; 30.3, 27.7, 17.9.1645.Google Scholar

169. GAK, AHGK 11, 5, 10 and 26.7.1644.Google Scholar

170. GAK, RA 3: 24r, 1613.Google Scholar

171. GAK, OA 2275, 10.12.1620: minute from a letter sent by the magistrate to the civic delegate Casper ter Borchorst in 's-Gravenhage.Google Scholar

172. GAK, AHGK 12, 25.4.1659; AHGK 13, 12.6.1676.Google Scholar

173. Abels, P. H. A. M. establishes that something similar was happening in Delft: “Sunday observance had an already long pre-Reformation tradition and was enforced with the help of numerous laws that were not any less strict than the new regulations enacted after the break with Spain.” Abels, Nieuw en ongezien, 2:167.Google Scholar

174. Van der Pol, , De reformatie te Kampen, 366–69, gives all sorts of examples, both before and after the Reformation.Google Scholar