Myth in history, history in myth [electronic resource] / edited by Laura Cruz, Willem Frijhoff.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 182.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: viii, 263 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 949.20072 22
LOC classification:
  • DJ114 .S68 2006eb
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Contents:
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 Dunkelgr�un -- Rembrandt and the historical construction of his Conspiration of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc.
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Dunkelgr�un -- Rembrandt and the historical construction of his Conspiration of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc.

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