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The 'Geuzenhoek': religious coexistence and multiple identities in rural Flanders (1600-1750)
Acronym
The 'Geuzenhoek'
Code
3F020016
Duration
01 October 2016 → 31 December 2020
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Cultural history
    • Early modern history
Keywords
early modern period history religion 17th Century 18th Century Comparative Iconography and analysis of images Quantitative Language and text analysis 17th century 18th century Christianity Coexistence Collective identities Confessionalism Cultural history Cultural identity Historical anthropology Historical sociology History of religion Identity Religious identity Religious violence Belgium Western Europe
 
Project description

This project will analyze the interaction between Catholics and Protestants in the so-called 'Geuzenhoek', a number of bi-confessional rural villages in the vicinity of Oudenaarde (1600-1750). The central hypothesis is that the villagers had 'multiple identities', allowing co-existence between both confessional groups.