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The Nobility of Holland

From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650

By: Henk F. K. van Nierop

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The Nobility of Holland

From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650

By: Henk F. K. van Nierop

This is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the age of Rembrandt, nobles seemed to have been obliterated by the rising bourgeois merchants. However, in this study of the impact of the Dutch revolt, the author finds that Dutch nobles were extremely successful in maintaining their positions within the supposedly bourgeois Republic, forming the elite in administrative, political and economic systems. This is a revised edition of van Nierop's widely acclaimed Dutch publication.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521392608

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9780521392600

Treason in the Northern Quarter

War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt

By: Henk van Nierop

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Treason in the Northern Quarter

War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt

By: Henk van Nierop

In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and named their principals--a witch-hunt that eventually led to a young Catholic lawyer named Jan Jeroenszoon. Treason in the Northern Quarter tells how Jan Jeroenszoon, through great personal courage and faith in the rule of law, managed to survive gruesome torture and vindicate himself by successfully arguing at trial that the authorities remained subject to the law even in times of war. Henk van Nierop uses Jan Jeroenszoon's exceptional story to give the first account of the Dutch Revolt from the point of view of its ordinary victims--town burghers, fugitive Catholic clergy, peasants, and vagabonds. For them the Dutch Revolt was not a heroic struggle for national liberation but an ordinary dirty war, something to be survived, not won. An enthralling account of an unsuspected story with surprising modern resonance, Treason in the Northern Quarter presents a new image of the Dutch Revolt, one that will fascinate anyone interested in the nature of revolution and civil war or the fate of law during wartime.

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Princeton University Press

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0691178046

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9780691178042

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

God's Word Questioned

By: Henk Nellen

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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

God's Word Questioned

By: Henk Nellen

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192529811

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9780192529817

Colonial Empires Compared

Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

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Colonial Empires Compared

Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

During the seventeenth century, the Dutch and English emerged as the world's leading trading nations, building their prosperity largely upon their maritime successes. During this period both nations strongly contested for maritime supremacy and colonial dominance, yet by the nineteenth century, it was Britain who had undoubtedly come out on top of this struggle, with a navy that dominated the seas and an empire of unparalleled size. This volume examines the colonial development of these two nations at a crucial period in which the foundations for the modern nineteenth and twentieth century imperial state were laid. The volume consists of ten essays (five by British and five by Dutch scholars) based on papers originally delivered to the Fourteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 2000. The essays are arranged into five themes which take a strongly comparative approach to explore the development of the British and Dutch colonial empires in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These themes examine the nature of Anglo-Dutch relations, the culture of imperialism and perceptions of the overseas world, the role of sea power in imperial expansion, the economics of colonial expansion and the extension of the metropolitan state to the colonies. Taken together, these essays form an important collection which will greatly add to the understanding of the British and Dutch colonial empires, and their relative successes and failures.

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Routledge

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1351950509

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9781351950503

The Life and Work of Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

By: Henk Bonger

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The Life and Work of Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

By: Henk Bonger

The sixteenth-century Dutch spiritualist and controversialist, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590), is increasingly recognized as a pivotal figure in the cultural and political life of the early Dutch Republic. With the appearance of Henk Bonger’s widely acclaimed biography (1978), the first complete account of Coornhert’s life became available in the Dutch language. Today this biography is still the starting point of any serious research on Coornhert and his circle. This translation now makes this standard biography available in English for the first time. The translator profited from Henk Bonger’s comments on the translated chapters, and the author approved of adaptations and changes where these were deemed necessary. The structure and most of the chapters of the book are as they were in the original. The chief changes are: the abridgment and combination into one chapter of the two original chapters on Coornhert’s creative work and his translations. The ample quotes from Coornhert contained in the text enable the reader to attain a first hand acquaintance with Coornhert’s profound thought and inimitable style. References have been updated and some explanatory remarks intended for a non-Dutch readership were added. The translation is complemented with a full bibliography of Coornhert’s writings, as well as an up-to-date bibliography of the secondary literature; with 25 illustrations.

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BRILL

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9004456759

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9789004456754

Treason in the Northern Quarter

War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt

By: Henk van Nierop

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Princeton University Press

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The Nobility of Holland

From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650

By: Henk F. K. van Nierop

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From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650

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Cambridge University Press

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Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer

By: Ronni Baer,Henk F. K. van Nierop,Marieke de Winkel,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer

By: Ronni Baer,Henk F. K. van Nierop,Marieke de Winkel,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in the history of Western art. Freed from the constraints of royal and church patronage, artists created a rich outpouring of naturalistic portraits, genre scenes and landscapes that circulated through a newly open market to patrons and customers at every level of Dutch society. Their closely observed details of everyday life offer a wealth of information about the possessions, activities and circumstances that distinguished members of social classes, from the nobility to the urban poor. The dazzling array of paintings gathered here - from artists such as Frans Hals, Jan Steen and Gerrit Dou, as well as Rembrandt and Vermeer - illuminated by essays by leading specialists, invite us to explore a vibrant early modern society and its reflection in a golden age of brilliant painting.

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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0878468307

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9780878468300

Colonial Empires Compared

Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

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Britain and the Netherlands, 1750–1850

By: Bob Moore,Henk van Nierop

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The Nobility of Holland

The Nobility of Holland

Treason in the Northern Quarter

Treason in the Northern Quarter

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

Colonial Empires Compared

Colonial Empires Compared

The Life and Work of Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

The Life and Work of Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Treason in the Northern Quarter

Treason in the Northern Quarter

The Nobility of Holland

The Nobility of Holland

Class Distinctions

Class Distinctions

Colonial Empires Compared

Colonial Empires Compared

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