A Calvinist Bolthole? The Unusual Survival of Great Yarmouth's Dutch Congregation

IF 0.6 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
History Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1111/1468-229X.70001
DANNY BUCK
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Abstract

The case of Great Yarmouth's Dutch congregation exemplifies the complexity of the migrant experience in early modern Britain. It shows how a community of Dutch émigrés defined itself through its Calvinist faith, with the minister, congregation and chapel all playing central roles. Over the seventeenth century, the number of Dutch exiles and their descendants in Great Yarmouth dwindled, threatening the survival of their ministry and the community it sustained. It was the choice between separation from, or assimilation to, the English community that created a tension between the town's Dutch ministers, their congregation and the town's Puritan elite. The exceptional success of second- and third-generation Dutch migrants in maintaining their community for over a century before the congregation's dissolution can be attributed to Great Yarmouth's unique economic circumstances as the main port for Dutch herring fishermen and a complex religious settlement that pitted Calvinist Presbyterians and Independents against conformist Anglicans.

加尔文主义者的避难所?大雅茅斯荷兰教会的罕见幸存
大雅茅斯的荷兰教众的例子说明了近代早期英国移民经历的复杂性。它展示了荷兰的一个群体如何通过其加尔文主义信仰来定义自己,牧师、会众和教堂都发挥着核心作用。在17世纪,荷兰流亡者及其后裔在大雅茅斯的数量减少,威胁到他们的事工及其维持的社区的生存。是与英国社区分离,还是与英国社区同化,在该镇的荷兰牧师、他们的会众和该镇的清教徒精英之间造成了紧张关系。第二代和第三代荷兰移民成功地维持了他们的社区一个多世纪,直到教会解散,这可以归因于大雅茅斯独特的经济环境,作为荷兰鲱鱼渔民的主要港口,以及一个复杂的宗教解决方案,使加尔文主义长老会教徒和独立派教徒与墨守成章的英国国教教徒对立。
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