Botte-Practise oder d'Armintaensche Wbaert (The Stubborn Practice or the Arminian Departure)

This Dutch woodcut documents the expulsion of Remonstrant (Arminian) preachers from the United Provinces on July 6, 1619, following the Synod of Dort. The print combines satirical verses in Dutch and German with a named roster of the exiled ministers, their destinations marked by numbered wagons. The composition exemplifies the Northern European tradition of using serial imagery and textual commentary—a direct ancestor of the pictorial narrative form. Such broadsheet prints served as popular political commentary and information, circulating religious and political conflict to a wide audience. The work registers both the sectarian tensions of the Dutch Golden Age and the medium's power to shape public opinion through the marriage of word and image.