The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Helmer J. Helmers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-31

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316780325

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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 Provinces of the Netherlands also became known for their involvement with slavery and military repression in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This Companion provides a compelling overview of the best scholarship on this much debated era, written by a wide range of experts in the field. Unique in its balanced treatment of global, political, socio-economic, literary, artistic, religious, and intellectual history, its nineteen chapters offer an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the world of the Dutch Golden Age.

The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age
The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Helmer J. Helmers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1107172268

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An accessible introduction to the political, economic, literary, and artistic heritage of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

Author: R. Po-Chia Hsia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1139433903

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Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Netherlands to probe the history and myth of this Dutch tradition of religious tolerance. This 2002 collection of outstanding essays reconsiders and revises contemporary views of Dutch tolerance. Taken as a whole, the volume's innovative scholarship offers unexpected insights into this important topic in religious and cultural history.

Going Dutch
Going Dutch

Author: Lisa Jardine

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 1065

ISBN-13: 0062043382

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On November 5, 1688, William of Orange, Protestant ruler of the Dutch Republic, landed at Torbay in Devon with a force of twenty thousand men. Five months later, William and his wife, Mary, were jointly crowned king and queen after forcing James II to abdicate. Yet why has history recorded this bloodless coup as an internal Glorious Revolution rather than what it truly was: a full-scale invasion and conquest by a foreign nation? The remarkable story of the relationship between two of Europe's most important colonial powers at the dawn of the modern age, Lisa Jardine's Going Dutch demonstrates through compelling new research in political and social history how Dutch tolerance, resourcefulness, and commercial acumen had effectively conquered Britain long before William and his English wife arrived in London.

Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century
Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Gijs Versteegen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-23

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9004436804

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This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors focus on the way crucial ethical, religious, political, aesthetic, and cultural developments interacted with thought on magnificence in Catholic and Protestant contexts, analysing spectacular civic and courtly festivities and theatre, impressive displays of painting and sculpture in rich architectural settings, splendid gardens, exclusive etiquette, grand households, and learned treatises of moral philosophy. Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil
The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

Author: Michiel van Groesen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-09

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1107061172

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Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.

The Royalist Republic
The Royalist Republic

Author: Helmer J. Helmers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107087619

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This book traces the impact of the English Civil Wars and the resulting support for the royalist cause in the Dutch Republic.

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age
State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age

Author: Arthur der Weduwen

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-12-08

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0198926626

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State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.