The Life and work of Dirck Volkertszoon Coornhert

Translator’s forewordList of illustrations Author’s prefacePart I: The life and times of Coornhert1 1522-1562 Youth, Marriage, Stay at Batestein, Etcher and printer in Haarlem2 1562-1567 Notary, Secretary of the Municipal Government of Haarlem, Secretary of the Mayors3 1567 Imprisonment, Interrogation, Flight4 1567-1576 Exile, Secretary of the States of Holland, Second Exile5 1576-1584 The Period of Public Debates and Polemics6 1584-1590 Last Exile, Residence in Delft and Gouda, Polemics with Lipsius, DeathPart II: Coornhert’s Ideas7 Ideas on Man’s Perfectibility8 The Struggle for Freedom of Religion9 The Struggle against the Dogmas of Original Sin and Predestination10 Coornhert’s Place in the Religious Life of his Times; Criticism of the “Godded Prophets”11 Social and Political Ideas12 Creative Work and Translations: Plays, Poems, TranslationsAppendix I: Coornhert in HistoryAppendix II: Main Events in Coornhert’s LifeAppendix III: Time TableBibliographyI Primary Sources: Unpublished sources, Works by Coornhert, Translations and adaptations by Coornhert, Other published primary sourcesII Secondary SourcesIndex of Names