TY - JOUR
AU - Van Ittersum, Martine
AB - BOOK RE VIE WS 1585 This excellent book deserved a proper Conclusion. Nonetheless, Der Weduwen has not only discussed and systematically analysed a topic that looks less than gripping at first sight, but also managed to make it fascinating, by showing in great detail how deeply ingrained these practices were in Dutch politics. It does raise the question, of course, to what extent this is a specif- ically Dutch story. There are several reasons to assume it was. Among the most obvious are the high rates of literacy in the Dutch population, and the country’s strongly developed print culture that Der Weduwen and Pettegree have already documented in their Bookshop of the World. Another typically Dutch aspect is the history and shape of its politics. Leading a new polity put additional pressure on the authorities to persuade the inhabitants that their best interests were being properly looked after. Being in charge of a republic made this potentially more difficult, as there was no royal figure of authority, nor a God-given hierarchy that the Dutch ‘regents’ could appeal to. In fact, portraying themselves as ordinary citizens, these regents had only themselves to blame for their lack of ‘natural’ authority, and 
TI - Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, ed. Sjoerd Levelt, Esther van Raamsdonk and Michael D. Rose
JF - The English Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ehr/ceae252
DA - 2024-11-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/anglo-dutch-connections-in-the-early-modern-world-ed-sjoerd-levelt-3VT0n4WcUg
SP - 1585
EP - 1587
VL - 139
IS - 601
DP - DeepDyve
ER -