Christine Kooi
Lewis, Katheryn and Benjamin Price Professor of European History
238A Himes Hall
ckooi1@lsu.edu
225-578-4499
Courses Taught
Western Civilization to 1500, The Renaissance, The Age of Reformation, The Dutch Republic and Empire, 1500-1800, Women in the Renaissance and Reformation, Early Modern Europe
Current Research Interests
The Reformation in the Low Countries, 1520-1620
Interested in Directing Theses On
The Reformation, Early Modern Netherlands
Education
B.A. summa cum laude, The College of Saint Rose (1987)
M.A., Ph.D., Yale University (1993)
Awards and Honors
Research Fellow, H.H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin University, 2021
Research Fellow, Amsterdam Centre for the History and Heritage of Protestantism, Free University of Amsterdam, 2019
海角社区 Council on Summer Research Grants (1995, 1998)
Editorial Board, Sixteenth Century Journal
Carl Meyer Prize
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference 1993
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Resident Fellow 2003
Louisiana Board of Regents ATLAS Grant, 2007-2008
Notable Articles
鈥淭he Synod of Dordrecht after Four Hundred Years,鈥� Archiv f眉r Reformationsgeschichte 111 (2020): 350-361
鈥淐atholic Women in the Dutch Golden Age,鈥� Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Era (Routledge, 2021)
鈥淧opish Impudence: The Perseverance of the Catholic Faithful in Calvinist Holland, 1572-1620,鈥� Sixteenth Century Journal 26 (1995): 75-85
鈥淧harisees and Hypocrites: A Public Debate over Church Discipline in Leiden, 1586,鈥� Archive for Reformation History 88 (1997): 258-278
鈥淐onverts and Apostates: The Competition for Souls in Early Modern Holland,鈥� Archive for Reformation History 92 (2001): 195-214
鈥淪ub jugo haereticorum: Minority Catholicism in Early Modern Europe,鈥� in Early Modern Catholicism (Toronto, 2001)
鈥淧aying Off the Sheriff: Strategies of Catholic Toleration in Golden Age Holland,鈥� in Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002)
鈥淐onversion in a Multiconfessional Society: The Dutch Republic,鈥� in: Konversion und Konfession in der Fr眉hen Neuzeit, eds. Ute-Lotz Heumann et al. (G眉tersloher Verlaghaus, 2007), pp. 271-285
鈥淭he Netherlands,鈥� in Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research, ed. David M. Whitford (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2007), pp. 273-289
鈥淭he Reformation in the Netherlands: Some Historiographic Contributions in English,鈥� Archive for Reformation History 100 (2009): 293-307
鈥淩eligious Tolerance,鈥� Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age, eds. Geert Janssen and Helmer Helmers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 208-224
鈥淐alvinism in the Early Modern Netherlands and the Dutch Atlantic World,鈥� John Calvin in Context, ed. R. Ward Holder (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 391-398
鈥淐alvinism and War,鈥� Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, eds. Crawford Gibben and Graeme Murdock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 173-187
Books
Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 (Cambridge, 2022)
Calvinists and Catholics during Holland鈥檚 Golden Age: Heretics and Idolaters (Cambridge, 2012)
Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden鈥檚 Reformation 1572-1620 (Brill, 2000)