Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction: Most Ancient Allies and Familiar Neighbours
Anglo-Dutch Relations in Scholarship
A Transnational Perspective
Shared History
Travel, Language, and Education
Immigration, Empire, and Colonialism
Literary and Diplomatic Exchange
News, Letters, and War
Print Culture
Design, Technology, and Production
Religious Pluralism and Radicalism
Setting Off
Notes
Part I: Travel, Language, and Education
Chapter 1: Anglo-Belgica: Reading Anglo-Dutch Relations in Multilingual Conversation Manuals
‘Workers togither in the upholding of the Gospell’: Teaching Confessional Solidarity
‘Either the same, or very like’: A Shared Linguistic History
‘By their often practise, and conversse therein’: Teaching Speech and Pronunciation
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2: Let Whitehall Shake: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Travelogues on War and Turmoil in England
Dutch Travel Manuscripts on England
Remembering the Regicide
National Identity at Chatham
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3: British Students at Leiden University
Introduction
Leiden University
Anglus, Scotus, Irlandus
Living in a University City
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4: The English Travels of Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687)
Correspondence
7 June–12 November 1618
23 January–30 April 1621
5 December 1621–13 February 1623
26 February 1624–5 July 1624
In the Interim
2 June 1663–1 October 1663
7 June 1664–2 October 1664
6 November 1670–11 October 1671
Lastly
Notes
Part II: Immigration, Empire, and Colonialism
Chapter 5: The “Amboyna Massacre” Through Native Eyes
Notes
Chapter 6: Sex in the City: Anglo-Dutch Relations in Seventeenth-Century Batavia
The EIC and the VOC Policies on Women
The Legal Regime in VOC Batavia
Anglo-Dutch Conflict on the Ground
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
Chapter 7: “Going Wild”: Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Interests on the Oyapock River
Precedents: Early Trade and Attempts at Colonising on the Oyapock, c .1600–1617
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8: In Search of Strayed Englishmen: English Seamen Employed in the Dutch East India Company in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Introduction
Very Few English
William, Guiljam, Willem
Hard Work, Low Pay
The Other English
Notes
Part III: News, Letters, and War
Chapter 9: The Proprietorship of the Sea during the Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652–1674
Mare liberum and Mare clausum
The Blake–Tromp Incident of 1652
The ‘Apotheosis’ of Cornelis de Witt
The Merlin Incident
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 10: Prorogations and Perorations: Reading News about Parliament in the United Provinces, 1672–1674
Anglo-Dutch News Networks
Misreading Parliamentary News
Contextualising Parliamentary News
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 11: What is “Dutch” in the Stuart State Papers?
The Stuart State Papers and the Dutch
What Is “Dutch” in the State Papers?
Network Science
Intersection in the Network
Conclusion
Notes
Part IV: Print Culture
Chapter 12: ‘How the English nation derived mostly from the Dutch’: The Study of Old Dutch and the Development of the Printing of Old English
Richard Verstegan and Anglo-Dutch Kinship
Old English Type in England and the Netherlands
John Selden
Franciscus Junius
Printing Old English at the Oxford University Press
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 13: Print and Piracy: The Publication History of John Selden’s Mare clausum
The Origins of Mare clausum
The Printing History of Mare clausum
The Dissemination of Mare clausum
The Aftermath
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 14: Anglo-Dutch Exchange and Book History: Early Modern Female Stationers Crossing Borders
Historical Context
Mercy Bruyning
Abigail Swart
Conclusion
Notes
Part V: Literary and Diplomatic Exchange
Chapter 15: From Antwerpen to London and Back via Paris: Jan van der Noot’s Theatre Connecting People and Languages
Van der Noot on His Way to London
Van der Noot’s Theatre in Three Languages
The Theatre Connecting People
The Theatre Connecting Languages
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 16: Focquen-wat? : Dutch and English Libertine Poets
Introduction
Pocky Poetry
“Lord Bollockborough”
Notes
Chapter 17: ‘In sight of the whole world’: Public Diplomacy and the Anglo-Dutch Community in Livorno in 1666
A New Resident in Florence
Scandalous Events in Livorno
Contesting Celebrations
Conclusion
Notes
Part VI: Religious Pluralism and Radicalism
Chapter 18: ‘Gods kerke voor hare vyanden bewaart’: Fast and Prayer Days in the English Stranger Churches (1560–1603)
Introduction
General Fast and Prayer Day Practices in the Stranger Churches
Politics and Fasting in Provincial Stranger Churches
Politics and Fasting in the London Stranger Churches
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 19: Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch Nonconformists: The Cases of David Joris (George) and Menasseh ben Israel
David Joris, Menasseh ben Israel, and Dutch Religious Tolerance
Ben Israel and the Return of the Jews
William Prynne and the Response to Ben Israel
Arise Evans and Ben Israel
The Hartlib Circle on Joris and Ben Israel
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 20: Plockhoy’s Portable Utopia: Bridging Radical Circles in England and the Netherlands
Pieter Cornelius Plockhoy (c .1620–?)
The Collegiants
The Hartlib Circle
Return to the Netherlands
The Colony
Plockhoy Navigating Anglo-Dutch Relations
Notes
Part VII: Design, Technology, and Production
Chapter 21: Architectural Relations in the Seventeenth Century: A Family Affair
The Stone-De Keyser Families
Constantijn Huygens
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 22: The Dutch Painter and the English Virtuosi : Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Royal Society
Notes
Chapter 23: Technology in a Hostile Environment: The Case of Cornelius Vermuyden
Water Management in the South-western Netherlands
Vermuyden in the Thames Estuary
Vermuyden in the Peak District
Vermuyden in the Fens
Conclusion
Notes
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index