Michel Reinders

Jan Hartman

Jaap Nieuwstraten

Public Offices, Personal Demands presents a novel perspective on European politics in the seventeenth-century. Its focus lies on the Dutch Republic, that surprising anomaly, often described as a miracle or enigma, admired by many during this age. This collection of essays explores one of the most fundamental questions of seventeenth-century governance: what makes a person capable for office? Contemporary viewpoints are discussed by a range of scholars from different historical disciplines. As this volume shows, debates about capability and office-holding were by no means restricted to political theorists. Scientists, citizens and merchants all discussed these matters in a similar vein. Nor was this heated discussion about who was fit govern a typically Dutch phenomenon. Because of its multifaceted and international approach, this book will appeal to both scholars and students in the fields of cultural and social history, the history of political thought, the history of early modern politics, and the history of science.

Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Public Offices, Personal Demands

David Onnekink

Femke Deen

This volume explores the relationship between politics and pamphleteering in the Dutch Republic. By analyzing the political role of pamphlets and their interplay with other media in public debates, the articles provide a new understanding of Dutch political culture.

Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic

Nooit was de stem van politiek verontwaardigde burgers krachtiger, luider en duidelijker dan tijdens de zomer en herfst van het Rampjaar 1672. Nooit was deze ook gruwelijker. Op 20 augustus werden Johan en Cornelis de Witt in Den Haag vermoord, uit elkaar gereten en in delen verkocht door honderden woedende burgers. De politiek van deze burgers was niet alleen zichtbaar in bloed; deze was ook te vinden in pamfletten. De Nederlandse Republiek werd overspoeld met meer dan een miljoen van deze populaire politieke publicaties.

populisme en moord in het rampjaar 1672

Gedrukte chaos

Printed Pandemonium is a fresh take on one of the most violent political upheavals in early modern history: the riots, political murders and violent purifications of local governments in the Dutch Republic during the so-called ‘Year of Disaster’ 1672.

Popular Print and Politics in the Netherlands 1650-72

Printed Pandemonium

"Printed Pandemonium" is a fresh take on one of the most violent political upheavals in early modern history: the popular riots, the political murders and the brutal purifications of local governments in the Dutch Republic during the so-called Year of Disaster 1672. "Printed Pandemonium" gives an insight into the relationship between political event and political communication in the early modern world. The popular revolts of 1672 were the work of normal citizens who rioted and killed, but also politically participated by reading, writing and debating hundreds of different pamphlets and petitions that were put on the market during that momentous year. In total somewhere between one and two million pamphlets flooded the Dutch Republic in 1672. This study is the first analysis of all these pamphlets.

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