Corruption and Capability in the Dutch Republic: The Case of Lodewijk Huygens (1676)

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel P. Hoenderboom ◽  
Toon Kerkhoff
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Public Official ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
The Everyday

This article presents and exemplifies an approach to the problem of revealing values related to capability in actual historical context. First, a conceptual framework is discussed that allows us to identify values underlying capability. Second, a case study is used to exemplify the conceptual framework and to locate values associated with capability in early modern public office. The case study on the (in)capability of Lodewijk Huygens (1631 – 1699), sheriff of Gorinchem between 1672 and 1684, shows what was considered (un)acceptable, (un)wanted and (in)tolerable behavior for a typical high-ranking seventeenthcentury public official in the Dutch Republic. The Huygens case teaches us that capability mainly consisted of adhering to the everyday rules of conduct among officials on the “shop-floor.” Formal legal standards and public opinion were of limited practical relevance. A capable magistrate should at least maintain harmony and balance on the practical side of the political arena.

Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic, 1660-1710

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jetze Touber
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Dutch Golden Age

This book investigates the biblical criticism of Spinoza from the perspective of the Dutch Reformed society in which the philosopher lived and worked. It focusses on philological investigation of the Bible: its words, its language, and the historical context in which it originated. The book charts contested issues of biblical philology in mainstream Dutch Calvinism, to determine whether Spinoza’s work on the Bible had any bearing on the Reformed understanding of the way society should engage with Scripture. Spinoza has received massive attention, both inside and outside academia. His unconventional interpretation of the Old Testament passages has been examined repeatedly over the decades. So has that of fellow ‘radicals’ (rationalists, radicals, deists, libertines, enthusiasts), against the backdrop of a society that is assumed to have been hostile, overwhelmed, static, and uniform. This book inverts this perspective and looks at how the Dutch Republic digested biblical philology and biblical criticism, including that of Spinoza. It takes into account the highly neglected area of the Reformed ministry and theology of the Dutch Golden Age. The result is that Dutch ecclesiastical history, up until now the preserve of the partisan scholarship of confessionalized church historians, is brought into dialogue with Early Modern intellectual currents. This book concludes that Spinoza, rather than simply pushing biblical scholarship in the direction of modernity, acted in an indirect way upon ongoing debates in Dutch society, shifting trends in those debates, but not always in the same direction, and not always equally profoundly, at all times, on all levels.

scholarly journals Making things new: Invention privileges and the configuration of priority

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Marius Buning
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Web Of Knowledge ◽  
The Law

It was because of the early modern system of invention privileges that questions concerning inventorship became a recurrent subject matter of legal dispute. This essay focuses mainly on the details of one such dispute, namely the 1597 case litigated in the Dutch Republic between Jacob Floris van Langren (ca. 1525–1610) and Jodocus Hondius Sr. (1563–1612). The essay assesses how the law shaped, challenged, and constrained claims to innovation, pushing the argument that it was because of the privilege system that the borders between imitation and novelty became ever more clearly defined. The case study thus illustrates how the law functioned as a technology ordering a complex web of knowledge and status claims.

Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam: An Insight on Entrepreneurial Behaviour in the Dutch Republic

2008 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Cátia Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Entrepreneurial Behaviour ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter provides a case study of the entrepreneurship of Portuguese Jewish merchants in the Dutch Republic in the Early Modern period. Though similar case studies exist, none have focused specifically on Jewish entrepreneurs. The core aim is to determine which business strategies and values the Jewish entrepreneurs shared with their Dutch counterparts. It provides a history of the Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam, followed by a definition of the early modern entrepreneur. It then examines the trade routes, products, range of trading capital, and social networks of the Portuguese Jewish entrepreneurs, and concludes that Portuguese Jewish and Dutch merchants operated their businesses in similar ways, but Portuguese Jewish merchants were willing to step out of their religious and social boundaries in pursuit of a stronger economic position and were able to do so through financial support gained by dealing in diverse, high quality trade.

Introduction

Caritas ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Katie Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Lower Order ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Emotional Norms

An ‘emotional ethic’ is a system of feelings and embodied actions informed by a set of moral principles. This chapter introduces this concept and explains why caritas, a form of grace that ensured that neighbourly love was moral and ethical, operated as an emotional ethic in early modern Europe. This Introduction to the monograph introduces the concept of caritas and how it underpinned several significant ideas of the period, and explores why we might think of it as an embodied ethic. It details the methodological underpinnings of an emotional ethic, noting its foundation in performance theory and association with other emotional norms, such as ‘emotional communities’ and ‘emotional regimes’. The remainder of the chapter introduces the case study of the lower-order Scottish community in the eighteenth century, the source material through which they are accessed (mainly legal records), and the broader historical context for the book.

scholarly journals Cserei hallgat…

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsombor Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

This paper as a case study is an attempt at revealing some of the previously ignored, but relevant contexts related to the phenomena of reading, listening to, or assimilating early modern sermons. Due to the survival of numerous ego-documents accounting for the everyday life of an early modern individual, Mihály Cserei (1667–1756), my interperation provides a microhistorical reconstruction of those moments when Cserei was either listening to or reading Catholic and Protestant sermons. As he put down his reflections recording the hermeneutical experience of listening to or reading early modern Hungarian or Latin sermons, there is a possibility to decipher the cultural, confessional, and mental intentions, biases or prejudices shaping the act of understanding. Thus, Cserei became a modelreader immortalized in the microhistorical contexts of his life, revealing some of the unknown historical anthropological features of reading and understanding in the confessionally divided culture of the early modern era.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jonathan Moss
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
Second Wave

The Introduction discusses the study of women’s workplace protest for earlier periods. It outlines the book’s conceptual framework and indicates the book’s position relative to existing literature on women and work, women and the labour movement, and second-wave feminism. It also provides a brief discussion of the broader historical context in which these disputes took place. Finally, it discusses the sources and methods used in the book and explains why each case study was chosen, who was interviewed, and why.

scholarly journals Negotiated Precarity in the Global South: A Case Study of Migration and Domestic Work in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 210-227
Author(s):  
Zaheera Jinnah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Global South ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Discrimination In Employment

This article explores precarity as a conceptual framework to understand the intersection of migration and low-waged work in the global south. Using a case study of cross-border migrant domestic workers in South Africa, I discuss current debates on framing and understanding precarity, especially in the global south, and test its use as a conceptual framework to understand the everyday lived experiences and strategies of a group that face multiple forms of exclusion and vulnerability. I argue that a form of negotiated precarity, defined as transactions which provide opportunities for survival but also render people vulnerable, can be a useful way to make sense of questions around (il)legality and (in)formality in the context of poorly protected work, insecure citizenship and social exclusion. Precarity as a negotiated strategy shows the ways in which people interact with systems and institutions and foregrounds their agency. But it also illustrates that the negative outcomes inherent in more traditional notions of precarity, expressed in physical and economic vulnerability, and discrimination in employment relations, mostly hurt the poor. This suggests the importance of an intersectional approach to understanding precarity in labour migration studies.

scholarly journals Imagineering, or what Images do to People: Violence and the Spectacular in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Frans-Willem Korsten ◽  
Cornelis van der Haven ◽  
Inger Leemans ◽  
Karel Vanhaesebrouck ◽  
Michel van Duijnen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Embodied Experiences ◽  
Cultural Infrastructure ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Violent Images ◽  
Print Industry

This article studies the visual representation of violence in the Dutch Republic and the growth of a “staple market of images” in the early modern period. It introduces and employs the concept of imagineering for analysing what images can do to people when circulated in the context of a fast-expanding market. The advancement of the early modern print industry and imagery marketing produced a swirl of violent images. It was through this “spectacle of violence” and its related sensory and embodied experiences, that new ways of looking were introduced, which helped to craft new selves and realities. As the public manifestation of violence by ruling powers became less dominant, violence could become a matter of private consumption; a commodity to be enjoyed. Producers needed to create new markets as well as serve an existing one, satisfying clients in their inquisitive search for knowledge and excitement. Imagineering was not just a mimetic duplicate of its historical context, here, it performatively altered the imagination through the effective use of a new cultural infrastructure that enabled a visual abundance and continuous repetition and remediation of images.

Naming Nutrition Injustice: How Might Dietitians Articulate a Socially Just Dietetic Practice?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Jennifer Brady
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Nutrition Care ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Willingness To Change ◽  
Paper Work ◽  
Nutrition Care Process ◽  
Primary Care Institutions

This paper invites readers to consider how the ideals, concepts, and language of nutrition justice may be incorporated into the everyday practice of clinical dietitians whose work is often carried out within large, conservative, primary care institutions. How might clinical dietitians address the nutritional injustices that bring people to their practice, when practitioners are constrained by the limits of current diagnostic language, as well as the exigencies of their workplaces. In the first part of this paper, I draw on Cadieux and Slocum’s work on food justice to develop a conceptual framework for nutrition justice. I assert that a justice-oriented understanding of nutrition redresses inequities built in to the biomedicalization of nutrition and health, and seeks to trouble by whom and how these are defined. In the second part of this paper, I draw on the conceptual framework of nutrition justice to develop a politicized language framework that articulates nutrition problems as the outcome of nutritional injustices rather than individuals’ deficits of knowledge, willingness to change, or available resources. This language framework serves as a counterpoint to the current and widely accepted clinical language tool, the Nutrition Care Process Terminology, that exemplifies biomedicalized understandings of nutrition and health. Together, I propose that the conceptual and language frameworks I develop in this paper work together to foster what Croom and Kortegast (2018) call “critical professional praxis” within dietetics.

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