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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Dutch Republic"”.
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Heretics and Martyrs: Picturing Early Anabaptism in Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic
… and Mennonitism in the visual culture of the Dutch Republic (1585-1795). Polemical and satirical imagery critical of Anabaptism circulated alongside artworks presenting Anabaptist theological heritage in a positive light. Book illustrations offer the most frequent site for representation, …
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Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic
… on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic tells the story of the Iberian New Christians or conversos – Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism – who arrived in Amsterdam in the early 1600s. In post-Reformation Netherlands, they encountered something new, Freedom of Conscience, …
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The office of stadhouder and the preservation of unity in the Dutch Republic, 1559 - 1672
… of the United Netherlands, also known as the Dutch Republic, was a compound state in which sovereignty was shared between towns, provinces, and the States General. The Union of Utrecht of 1579 was one of the Republic’s principal founding documents, yet paradoxically grounded the state in the …
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Pictures, power and the polity: a vision of the political images of the early Dutch Republic. [In two volumes]
The Dutch Revolt (c. 1568-1648) led to the establishment of a new state in the northern provinces of the old Habsburg Netherlands. This new polity confronted intense hostility from Habsburg dynastic interests. It sustained itself militarily against these interests, and extended its power globally. …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
… of manifestations of smell in the art of the Dutch Republic by artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, and Hendrik Goltzius. Over four studies, smell is visualised through a range of olfactory allusions, among them tobacco smoke, incense, pomanders, flowers, fruit, flies, smoking …
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The revolution of 1688 in Dutch pamphlet literature: a study in the Dutch public sphere in the late seventeenth century
… the pamphlet literature published in the Dutch Republic during the period surrounding the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Although the Dutch side of the Revolution has been afforded significant attention in recent years, writing on the subject has focused largely on assessing the motivation …
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Fighting for the spoils : Cape burgerschap and faction disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
… the Cape settlement was part and parcel of the Dutch empire. The protesters emphasised that their burgerschap was on par with that in cities in the Dutch Republic. The first part of the thesis compares Cape and Dutch burgerschap and argues that the Cape burghers were justified in stating that …
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The Julich-Kleve succession crisis (1609-1620): A study in international relations
… examines why England, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic and other German states were willing to go to war over the succession, and why nothing more than a few minor skirmishes actually took place. It also probes international relations and the strengths and limitations of diplomacy in …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… concepts were a key element in early modern Dutch representations of Asia, and played an essential role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch …
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Homeliness and Worldliness: Materiality and the Making of New Netherland, 1609-1740
… connected people and places in early modern Dutch trade networks. Through a careful analysis of objects of material culture and depictions of material culture I focus on how the colony was physically constructed and ideologically imagined internally by the colonists and externally by other …
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Dutch Artists in England: Examining the Cultural Interchange between England and the Netherlands in ‘Low’ Art in the Seventeenth Century.
… and creating the art weren’t English, they were Dutch. Over this one hundred year period scores of Dutch artists migrated over from the Dutch Republic and showed England this Golden Age of painting that had established Dutch artists back in the Netherlands as pioneers in their line of work. In …
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War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography Volume II
… expansionism and the wars against Spain and the Dutch Republic, 1648–1678; English foreign policy under Cromwell and Charles II, 1649–1685; the formation of the Grand Alliance and the Nine Years' War, 1678–1697; the First and Second Partition Treaties and the War of the Spanish Succession, …