Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s

<p>The reorganisation of the poor relief system in Dutch cities in the second half of the seventeenth century marked a new manner of confessional coexistence in which dissenting communities were entrusted to care for their own poor co-religionists. In the negotiations to solve the financial pr...

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Main Author: Genji Yasuhira
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Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2017-12-01
Series:BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
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Online Access:https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10258
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spelling doaj-ad9ad1899ab4408688d3ffa3332459d22021-10-02T08:38:14ZengOpen JournalsBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review0165-05052211-28982017-12-01132432410.18352/bmgn-lchr.1025810084Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670sGenji Yasuhira0Kyoto University/Tilburg University<p>The reorganisation of the poor relief system in Dutch cities in the second half of the seventeenth century marked a new manner of confessional coexistence in which dissenting communities were entrusted to care for their own poor co-religionists. In the negotiations to solve the financial problems of Utrecht from the 1620s to the 1670s, which led to the separation of charity along confessional lines in 1674, Catholics did not remain passive. They were one of the actors, along with the Dutch Reformed Church and the political authorities. All the actors attempted to defend their own interests by referring to the term ‘public’ based on their own definition. Catholics actively created room for survival by participating in the delimitation of the ‘public’. The public sphere was a much more dynamic space and Catholics had much more active agency in the<br />delimitation of the ‘public’ than previous studies have assumed.</p><p> </p><p>De reorganisatie van het armenzorgsysteem in Nederlandse steden in de tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw werd gekenmerkt door een nieuwe manier van confessionele co-existentie waarin religieuze dissidenten de zorg voor hun armen werd toevertrouwd. Katholieken bleven niet passief tijdens de onderhandelingen voor de oplossing van de financiële problemen van Utrecht in de jaren 1620 tot 1670, die in 1674 tot de verdeling van liefdadigheidswerk langs confessionele lijnen leidde. Zij waren één van de actoren naast de Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en de politieke autoriteiten. Alle actoren probeerden hun belangen te verdedigen door te verwijzen naar de term ‘publiek’ op basis van hun eigen definitie van dat begrip. Door deel te nemen aan de afbakening van het ‘publieke’, schiepen katholieken ruimte om zich te handhaven. De publieke sfeer was een veel dynamischer ruimte en katholieken hadden veel meer actieve agency in de afbakening van het ‘publieke’ dan voorgaande studies doen vermoeden.</p>https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10258Toleration, Coexistence, Public Sphere, Civic Community, Early Modern Catholicsm, Financial Problems and their Solutions
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Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
Toleration, Coexistence, Public Sphere, Civic Community, Early Modern Catholicsm, Financial Problems and their Solutions
author_facet Genji Yasuhira
author_sort Genji Yasuhira
title Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
title_short Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
title_full Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
title_fullStr Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
title_full_unstemmed Confessional Coexistence and Perceptions of the ‘Public’: Catholics’ Agency in Negotiations on Poverty and Charity in Utrecht, 1620s-1670s
title_sort confessional coexistence and perceptions of the ‘public’: catholics’ agency in negotiations on poverty and charity in utrecht, 1620s-1670s
publisher Open Journals
series BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review
issn 0165-0505
2211-2898
publishDate 2017-12-01
description <p>The reorganisation of the poor relief system in Dutch cities in the second half of the seventeenth century marked a new manner of confessional coexistence in which dissenting communities were entrusted to care for their own poor co-religionists. In the negotiations to solve the financial problems of Utrecht from the 1620s to the 1670s, which led to the separation of charity along confessional lines in 1674, Catholics did not remain passive. They were one of the actors, along with the Dutch Reformed Church and the political authorities. All the actors attempted to defend their own interests by referring to the term ‘public’ based on their own definition. Catholics actively created room for survival by participating in the delimitation of the ‘public’. The public sphere was a much more dynamic space and Catholics had much more active agency in the<br />delimitation of the ‘public’ than previous studies have assumed.</p><p> </p><p>De reorganisatie van het armenzorgsysteem in Nederlandse steden in de tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw werd gekenmerkt door een nieuwe manier van confessionele co-existentie waarin religieuze dissidenten de zorg voor hun armen werd toevertrouwd. Katholieken bleven niet passief tijdens de onderhandelingen voor de oplossing van de financiële problemen van Utrecht in de jaren 1620 tot 1670, die in 1674 tot de verdeling van liefdadigheidswerk langs confessionele lijnen leidde. Zij waren één van de actoren naast de Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en de politieke autoriteiten. Alle actoren probeerden hun belangen te verdedigen door te verwijzen naar de term ‘publiek’ op basis van hun eigen definitie van dat begrip. Door deel te nemen aan de afbakening van het ‘publieke’, schiepen katholieken ruimte om zich te handhaven. De publieke sfeer was een veel dynamischer ruimte en katholieken hadden veel meer actieve agency in de afbakening van het ‘publieke’ dan voorgaande studies doen vermoeden.</p>
topic Toleration, Coexistence, Public Sphere, Civic Community, Early Modern Catholicsm, Financial Problems and their Solutions
url https://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/articles/10258
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