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The Dutch Revolt of the sixteenth century sparked one of the largest refugee crises of Reformation Europe. This book explores the flight, exile and eventual return of Catholic men and women during the war. By mapping the Catholic diaspora across Europe, Geert Janssen explains how exile worked as a catalyst of religious radicalisation and transforme...
This essay surveys the wave of new literature on early modern migration and assesses its impact on the Dutch golden age. From the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands developed into an international hub of religious refugees, displaced minorities, and labour migrants. While migration to the Dutch Republic has often been studied in socio-economic...
During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurtured some of the period's greatest luminaries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Descartes and Spinoza. Long celebrated for its religious tolerance, artistic innovation and economic modernity, the United Pro...
Volume I documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400–1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of pre-industrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studie...
Refugees have existed since ancient times but it was in the early modern era that they first became a distinct social and political category. This open access book maps the early modern 'invention of the refugee' and in the process uncovers their impact on local, regional, and transnational politics.
With case studies ranging from Scandinavia to th...
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age - by Helmer J. Helmers August 2018
History on Dutch TelevisionIn ‘Dat is wel eens anders geweest!’ [It was different then!] Paul Knevel and Jouke Turpijn attempt to provide tools for historians to analyse history on the television in a broad historiographical perspective. They cover the first history productions in the Netherlands and the remarkable success of major series in the tw...
Less is More: History at the RijksmuseumThe central idea behind the newly refurbished Rijksmuseum is to evoke ‘a sense of time, and a sense of beauty’. This prompts the question: what sense of time, and whose sense of beauty has the museum visualised? In what ways, moreover, can public institutions offer visitors a balanced ‘sense of the past’ when...
The central idea behind the newly refurbished Rijksmuseum is to evoke 'a sense of time, and a sense of beauty'. This prompts the question: what sense of time, and whose sense of beauty has the museum visualised? In what ways, moreover, can public institutions offer visitors a balanced 'sense of the past' when 'beauty' has served as the main criteri...
On 14th December 2012 Rens Bod delivered his inaugural address as Professor of Computational and Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. Under the ominous title Het einde van de geesteswetenschappen 1.0 [The End of the Humanities 1.0], the lecture provided a spirited agenda for the future of the arts and humanities. This Forum of the BMG...
In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, ma...
This article explores the Catholic exile experience in the Dutch revolt of the 1570s and 1580s. It shows how Catholic refugees negotiated their stay in places such as Cologne and Douai and developed a more militant, Tridentine identity. This process of religious radicalisation is reflected in a series of white papers by leading refugees about Catho...
This article examines Catholic views of flight, exile, and displacement during the Dutch Revolt. It argues that the civil war in the sixteenth-century Low Countries generated a new imagery of exile among Catholics, a process that was to some extent similar to what had happened to Protestant refugees a few decades earlier. Yet the Dutch case also de...
THE DUTCHNESS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE - Volume 53 Issue 3 - GEERT H. JANSSEN
This article explores how the funeral processions of the Dutch stadholders negotiated the ambiguous outcomes of the Dutch Revolt and the Reformation. Basing themselves on the obsequies of the former Habsburg sovereigns, the directors of these public ceremonies created a separation between the private and public identities of the deceased. This was...
The civil war in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, generally known as the Dutch revolt, generated dramatic streams of refugees. Whereas scholars in the past have devoted much attention to the exile experience of Protestants in particular, the circumstances surrounding the return of these refugees to the Netherlands have remained largely unexplor...
Dynastic transfer in the Dutch Republic. The political and religious meaning of the Stadholders' funeral processionsThis article argues that the programme of the funeral processions of the Stadholders in the Dutch Republic can be read as a response to political and religious tensions in Dutch society after the Revolt. Basing themselves partly on th...
In the Dutch Republic, the state-structure created two different spheres in which Stadholders such as William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664) could operate: a public or official sphere in his quality of Stadholder and Captain-General, and a private sphere in his quality of high nobleman. The court of William Frederick was clearly situated in this p...