The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The municipal community and parish charity in late medieval Holland 3. The civic community and poor relief, 1500-1614 4. Poor relief in a confessional community: the creation of the Dutch Reformed diaconate, 1566-78 5. The dynamics of the Reformed community: discipline and poor relief, 1572-1620 6. Municipal welfare and the Calvinist diaconate, 1572-1620 7. The pillars of a new society: religious pluralism and confessional identity in Reformation Holland Bibliography Index.