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Myth in history, history in myth /

Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous historians.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Society for Netherlandic History (U.S.). International Conference
Otros Autores: Cruz, Laura, 1969-, Frijhoff, Willem
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 182.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Myth in history, history in myth / Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff
  • "How great the enterprise, how glorious the deed" : seventeenth-century Dutch circumnavigations as useful myths / Donald J. Harreld
  • The Orangist myth, 1650-1672 / Jill Stern
  • Myth, history, and image in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century / Jac Geurts
  • The wise man has two tongues : images of the Satyr and peasant by Jordaens and Steen / Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard
  • Emblematic myths : Anneke's fortune, Bogardus's farewell, and Kieft's son / Willem Frijhoff
  • International law and national existence : the myth of strict neutrality (1918-?) / Hubert P. van Tuyll
  • The epic story of the little republic that could : the role of patriotic myths in the Dutch Golden Age / Laura Cruz
  • History and myth of Dutch popular protest in the Napoleonic period (1806-1813) / Johan Joor
  • "Neerlands Israel" : political theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical antiquarianism, and historical myth / Theodor Dunkelgrün
  • Rembrandt and the historical construction of his Conspiration of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc.