Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, this accessible general history of the Reformation in the Low Countries traces the key developments in the process of reformation - both Protestant and Catholic - in the Low Countries during the sixteenth century, against the tumultuous political backdrop of the Revolt of the Netherlands.

Christine Kooi is the Lewis, Katheryn and Benjamin Price Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She writes on the religious history of the early modern Low Countries, and is the author of Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation (2000) and Calvinists and Catholics During Holland's Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge University Press, 2012), as well as numerous essays and articles.

Introduction; 1. The Netherlands in the early sixteenth century; 2. Inchoate Reformation; 3. The confessional turn; 4. War; 5. Schism; Conclusion.