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2018, Early Modern Low Countries
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Edited by Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, and Jasper van der Steen Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case studies in this volume highlight the extent to which early modern memory was already a multimedia affair, with many political uses, and affecting stakeholders at all levels of society. Contributors include: Andreas Bähr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdélyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Müller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen""
The Huguenots: History and memory in transnational context. Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt
The Huguenots and the experience of exile (sixteenth to twentieth centuries): History, memory and transnationalism2011 •
Introductory chapter to Trim (ed.), The Huguenots: history and memory in transnational context, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 156 (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011) ISBN 978-90-04-20775-2
Edited by Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, and Jasper van der Steen Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case studies in this volume highlight the extent to which early modern memory was already a multimedia affair, with many political uses, and affecting stakeholders at all levels of society. Contributors include: Andreas Bähr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdélyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Müller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen
Connecting Worlds and People. Early modern Diasporas
Proofs Connecting Worlds and PeopleIn recent decades historians have emphasized just how dynamic and varied early modern Europe was. Previously held notions of monolithic and static societies have now been replaced with a model in which new ideas, different cultures and communities jostle for attention and influence. Building upon the concept of interaction, the essays in this volume develop and explore the idea with specific reference to the ways in which diasporas could act as translocal societies, connecting worlds and peoples that may not otherwise have been linked. The volume looks at the ways in which diasporas or diasporic groups, such as the Herrnhuters, the Huguenots, the Quakers, Jews, the Mennonites, the Moriscos and others, could function as intermediaries to connect otherwise separated communities and societies. All contributors analyse the respective groups' internal and external networks, social relations and the settings of social interactions, looking at the entangled networks of diaspora communities and their effects upon the societies and regions they linked through those networks. The collection takes a fresh look at early modern diasporas, combining religious, cultural, social and economic history to better understand how early modern communication patterns and markets evolved, how consumption patterns changed and what this meant for social, economic and cultural change, how this impacted on what we understand as early developments towards globalization, and how early developments towards globalization, in turn, were constitutive of these.
A final draft of a paper for a volume edited by Vivienne Larminie, published in 2017
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In 1585, the famous Antwerp schoolmaster, Peeter Heyns, fled from his hometown. After resettling in Haarlem, he published eight texts in the four years that he spent there. In all of them, the Antwerp background of the texts as well as their author is strongly emphasised. This article argues that the stress on Heyns’s roots as well as his hometown was part of a publication strategy designed to create both financial and emotional value by appealing to an interest in Antwerp shared by fellow migrants and the host community. This way of dealing with the past, using nostalgia not just as an emotional asset but also as a commercial one, sheds new light on the possible uses of nostalgic representations of the lost hometown by migrant authors.
Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
Exile and IdentityThis essay is the opening chapter of a book of collected essays on Religious and Ethnic Identities in flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century. It explores the themes of expulsion and exile, focusing on three themes: the dynamics and causes of expulsion; the ways in which expelled communities integrate (or not) into their new host societies; and the ways in which experiences of expulsion and exile are made into founding myths that establish (or attempt to establish) group identities.
The eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora, and exile between Late Antiquity and the seventeenth century. The essays range from Hellenistic Egypt to seventeenth-century Hungary and involve expulsion and migration of Jews, Muslims and Protestants. The common goal of these essays is to shed light on a certain number of issues: first, to try to understand the dynamics of expulsion, in particular its social and political causes; second, to examine how expelled communities integrate (or not) into their new host societies; and finally, to understand how the experiences of expulsion and exile are made into founding myths that establish (or attempt to establish) group identities.
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A Companion to the Huguenots
Histories of Martyrdom and Suffering in the Huguenot Diaspora2016 •
Confession ansd Nation in the Era of Reformation. Central Europe in Comparative Perspective
Confessional Exile and National Identity: The Slovak Case2011 •
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Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, ed. by John Tolan, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015, pp. 117-134.
Losing Spain, Securing Zion: Allegory and the Mental Adaption to Exile among Refugees of the Iberian InquisitionsJournal of Intercultural Studies 34 (6)
Refugee and Diaspora Memories: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting2013 •
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Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff (eds.), Myth in History, History in Myth. Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006) (Leiden: Brill 2009), 201-236
'Neerlands Israel': Political Theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical Antiquarianism and Historical Myth2009 •