Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672

This book explores how Catholic priests and laypeople cooperated and managed to survive the Reformed regime by participating in a communal process of delimiting the public, continuing to rely on the medieval legacy and adapting to early modern religious diversity.

Genji Yasuhira is a senior lecturer at Kyoto University, Japan. In 2019 he earned his PhD with distinction from Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Prior to his appointment at Kyoto University in 2023, he held a position as Cross-border Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.