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Early Modern Low Countries
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ISSN 2543-1587 · Stichting Early Modern Low Countries · 247 artikel di indeks
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The Dutch Iron Age
This article analyses two thus far unstudied Latin poems by the prominent humanist scholar Caspar Barlaeus (1584-1648): Argo Batava (1629), which celebrates the Dutch capture of the Spanish treasure fleet in 1628; and Triumphus super capta Olinda (1630), on the conquest of the Portuguese settlement…
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The Image of the Refugee
This essay examines how growing numbers of displaced men and women in the early modern Low Countries were incorporated into contemporary visual culture. It argues that evolving representations of the refugee were built on biblical and classical tropes, and shaped by the interests of stakeholders…
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Representing Dutch Sovereignty
This article introduces a painting that has recently come to light after having remained in private ownership for centuries. It depicts a meeting of the States General in the Statenzaal at the Binnenhof in The Hague. This is of historical significance because, until now, no detailed representations…
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The Town Crier in the Dutch Republic
The aim of this article is to describe, for the first time, the general character and function of the town crier in the Dutch Republic, between the beginning of the seventeenth century and the middle of the eighteenth century. The stadsroeper belongs to a cast of early modern urban professionals…
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Introduction
Introduction to the special issue 'Towards a Multifaceted History of Early Modern Women in the Low Countries'
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Women and Work in the Dutch Republic
Historiography on women and work focused for long on whether and how large-scale transformations – such as urbanisation, commercialisation, the rise of capitalism, the consumer revolution, industrialisation, and the ideal of domesticity – changed women’s socio-economic position and work…
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Women in Early Modern Dutch Maritime and Colonial Worlds
In the past decades, historians have taken great strides in uncovering the central position of women in Dutch maritime and colonial contexts. Emphasis is shifting, however, from a focus on maritime women in the Dutch Republic and women who were part of the colonial elites towards marginalised…
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Occupational Matrilineages in the Printing House
The application dossiers for printer’s licences and privileges from the Privy Council in Brussels are a well-known source for book historians. To increase their chances of success, printers used a range of different arguments in their requests, including a family tradition in the trade. Using the…
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Women and Political Agency in the Early Modern Low Countries
Politically active women in the early modern period have often been seen as exceptional figures, notable primarily for their ability to influence decision-making despite societal constraints on female authority. Historians have traditionally focused on examples of women from noble, princely, or…
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Women and Reformation in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
The history of women and their experiences of Reformation in the sixteenth-century Low Countries remains largely unexplored territory, especially compared to the rest of Europe and to the seventeenth century. Why this is the case is something of a puzzle, though it may have to do with available…
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The Roles of Ambassadresses in Early Modern Diplomacy
Despite a recent surge in scholarship recognising the vital role of women in early modern diplomacy, the role of women in Dutch seventeenth-century embassies has been completely overlooked. This significant blind spot in Dutch scholarship skews our view of how the Dutch Republic, a new player on…
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Home, Enslavement, and Gender
When wealthy widow Judith Stuyvesant died in her seventh decade of life, she left a will passing down her possessions to her descendants. Judith Stuyvesant’s 1684 will exposes the fraught connections between family, race, property, and power in colonial New Netherland. Her life intersected with…
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Science on Women and Women in Science in the Dutch Republic
This article brings together the main historiographical discussions that concentrate on women in science and science on women in the early modern Low Countries, with a focus on recent decades and the Dutch Republic. Modern scholarship on the early modern Dutch scholars, writers, and thinkers that…
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A Dominican Sister from Antwerp
Maria Ludovica Mortgat, a seventeenth-century Dominican sister, owned a Dutch Bible printed in Antwerp in 1556. On the flyleaf of this Bible, Mortgat made extensive annotations recalling how she entered the convent. She also collected some short prayers and meditations. This case study not only…
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The Mystical Union Between Christ and His Brides
Hundreds of (semi-)religious women, so-called kloppen and Beguines, lived in early modern Amsterdam, many of them in a community at the Begijnhof in the city centre. This case study analyses, via an emblematically painted devotional print with a calligraphed poem on the verso, how they collectively…
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Rational Witches?
This essay examines the defence strategies of women accused of witchcraft in early modern Ghent, focusing on their agency within restrictive societal frameworks. Cases like that of Adriaene Schepens illustrate how accused women refuted supernatural accusations through rational explanations that…
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Katharina Lescailje’s Ariadne and Public Femininity
Combining literary analysis with book history, this short essay examines how representations of women within a play may be complicated by considering the context of individual printed versions. Ariadne, by Katharina Lescailje, offers a translation of Thomas Corneille’s tragedy, with its complicated…
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Women and Authorship in the Low Countries
Netherlandish women writing literary texts in the period 1550-1830 are well-studied. The aim of this essay is to show how existing scholarship creates a tension between exceptionalism and marginalisation: scholarship primarily focuses on the challenges female authors faced because of their sex and…
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Finding Women in the University Archives
This article explores the overlooked involvement of women in supporting the University of Leuven during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Despite gendered regulations against the presence of women in early modern universities, archival evidence reveals their significant roles in providing…
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Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture
From the late sixteenth century into the early eighteenth, the Southern Low Countries constituted one of the most important regions for artistic production and exchange in Europe. This essay reveals the understudied roles of women in the flourishing of that visual culture. I argue that this topic…