This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still relevant today.
A diverse range of expert scholars share new research in their discipline, ranging across technology, trade, politics, religion and the arts. Different aspects of this history of competition, alliance, migration and conflict are taken up by each chapter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader background and its historical roots.
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing current research in multiple facets of the Early Modern World.
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Introduction: Most Ancient Allies and Familiar Neighbours |
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PART I Travel, Language, and Education |
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1 Anglo-Belgica: Reading Anglo-Dutch Relations in Multilingual Conversation Manuals |
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2 Let Whitehall Shake: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Travelogues on War and Turmoil in England |
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3 British Students at Leiden University |
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Martine Zoeteman-Van Pelt |
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4 The English Travels of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) |
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PART II Immigration, Empire, and Colonialism |
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5 The "Amboyna Massacre" Through Native Eyes |
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6 Sex in the City: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Seventeenth-Century Batavia |
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7 "Going Wild": Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Interests on the Oyapock River |
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8 In Search of Strayed Englishmen: English Seamen Employed in the Dutch East India Company in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries |
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PART III News, Letters, and War |
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9 The Proprietorship of the Sea during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1674 |
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10 Prorogations and Perorations: Reading News about Parliament in the United Provinces, 1672-1674 |
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11 What is "Dutch" in the Stuart State Papers? |
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12 `How the English nation derived mostly from the Dutch': The Study of Old Dutch and the Development of the Printing of Old English |
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13 Print and Piracy: The Publication History of John Selden's Mare clausum |
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14 Anglo-Dutch Exchange and Book History: Early Modern Female Stationers Crossing Borders |
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PART V Literary and Diplomatic Exchange |
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15 From Antwerpen to London and Back via Paris: Jan van der Noot's Theatre Connecting People and Languages |
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16 Focquen-wat? Dutch and English Libertine Poets |
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17 `In sight of the whole world': Public Diplomacy and the Anglo-Dutch Community in Livorno in 1666 |
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PART VI Religious Pluralism and Radicalism |
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18 `Gods kerke voor hare vyanden bewaart': Fast and Prayer Days in the English Stranger Churches (1560-1603) |
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19 Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch Nonconformists: The Cases of David Joris (George) and Menasseh ben Israel |
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20 Plockhoy's Portable Utopia: Bridging Radical Circles in England and the Netherlands |
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PART VII Design, Technology, and Production |
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21 Architectural Relations in the Seventeenth Century: A Family Affair |
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22 The Dutch Painter and the English Virtuosi: Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Royal Society |
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23 Technology in a Hostile Environment: The Case of Cornelius Vermuyden |
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Afterword |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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Sjoerd Levelt is Senior Research Associate of the Leverhulme Trust project The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, c.1050c.1600, University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2012 for Jan van Naaldwijks Chronicles of Holland. His most recent book, North Sea Crossings, co-authored with Ad Putter, tells the story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.
Esther van Raamsdonk is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick), researching the politics of biblical translation and narrative in an Anglo-Dutch context. She published a recent monograph on Milton, Marvell and the Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2021). Before joining Warwick, she worked as postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded Networking Archives project. She has published in Renaissance Studies, The Seventeenth Century, Milton Quarterly, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Michael D. Rose is a Researcher Developer at the University of Surrey. He writes on the intersection of philosophy and literature, completing a Ph.D. on Wittgenstein, poetry and the inexpressible in 2017. Publications include I will draw a map of what you never see in Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature (Palgrave, 2016) and The Wittgenstein Vector (Kadar Koli, 2016). He is commissioning editor of Spindlebox poetry press and co-ordinates the Surrey Arts and Humanities Research Group.