The Impact of the Executions in the Low Countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Christman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
The Impact

Chapter Eight questions the general scholarly consensus that the vigorous response of the ecclesiastical and temporal authorities in the Low Countries was largely successful in limiting the spread of Reformation ideas there (at least initially). In particular, this chapter examines the impact of the authorities’ campaign against religious dissent in the Reformed Augustinian cloisters of Lower Germany, demonstrating that in most cases that campaign was successful, but not always. In the Cologne cloister, the tactics employed by Wittenberg to spread Reformation ideas had an important and extended impact; what is more, the memory of these events and of the friars’ executions continued to influence the religious sensibilities of the laity in the Low Countries.

Intertroupe Rivalries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Woodfield
Keyword(s):  
Low Countries ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Impact

Joseph II’s failed scheme to swap the Austrian Low Countries for Bavaria provoked the formation of a league of states opposed to this reconfiguration of Europe. In order to repair the damage done to his reputation in the German-speaking world, he reinstated the recently disbanded Singspiel, so that it could compete with the Italian troupe. A lighthearted contest in the Orangerie at Schönbrunn inaugurated two years of intense operatic rivalry. Thanks to Dittersdorf’s hit success Der Apotheker, which overshadowed the impact of Figaro, the German party established an early ascendancy, but the Italians struck back with an opera featuring Spanish fashion. Martín y Soler’s Una cosa rara was greeted with storms of applause at its premiere on the name day of the fiancée of Archduke Franz, second in line to the Habsburg Monarchy.

scholarly journals The Impact of Cremated Bone Dating on the Archaeological Chronology of the Low Countries

Radiocarbon ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy De Mulder ◽  
Mark van Strydonck ◽  
Mathieu Boudin
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Archaeological Artifacts ◽  
The Impact

Since the publication of the first article (Lanting and van der Plicht 2001/2002) about the possibilities of dating cremated bones, the number of dated cremation remains has grown exponentially. The success of this dating technique lies in the fact that an absolute date now can be attributed to archaeological phenomena that previously were only datable indirectly. When archaeological artifacts where present, the cremation burials were dated based on the typology of ceramics and metals. An absolute date could be attributed if charcoal from the pyre were present. Unfortunately, these items were not omnipresent at the burial sites. Consequently, a complete site was dated by means of the few datable burials present. This implies that the internal chronology of the site could not be studied. Furthermore, the typochronology of the ceramics and the metals remains questionable. A series of dating projects on urnfield cemeteries in the Low Countries (northern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands) have shown that the classical chronology of these sites must be revised.

Yet Another Inquiry into the Trustworthiness of Eighteenth-Century Bills of Mortality: the Newcastle and Gateshead Bills, 1736–1840

2014 ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Graham Butler
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Vital Registration ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
The North ◽  
East End ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Town

This note is a preliminary analysis of the Newcastle and Gateshead Bills of Mortality, a hitherto unused source for understanding some of the most significant aspects of vital registration and burial practices in the North East's capital, c. 1736–1840. The Bills are annual totals of the number of burials and baptisms which took place in all of the ancient Anglican parishes in Newcastle and Gateshead. One of the most lucid aspects of the Bills is that they recorded the number of burials which took place in the 'infamous' un-consecrated burial ground of Ballast Hills located on the outskirts of the east-end of the town. Attention here is given to the initial accuracy of the Bills by focusing upon All Saints parish in Newcastle which accounted for approximately 50 per cent of the town's total population over the entire period. Here the data revealed in the Bills are compared directly with the burials which were registered by the parish clerk in All Saints. The major finding of this preliminary study is the huge discrepancy between the number of reported burials and the number of baptisms which took place in All Saints over time. The Bills also provide a fully documented account of the impact of Ballast Hills and the apparent “export in corpses” which was clearly taking place on a large scale. By the 1770s–1790s, this one burial ground alone, was consuming roughly 60–70 per cent of the town's dead population. The reasons behind this phenomenon are discussed by looking specifically at the possible impact of religious dissent, burial costs and burial space in the town. The note concludes that while this preliminary analysis is revealing, more work needs to be done which would involve a fuller analysis of all of the parishes recorded in the Bills as well as looking more closely at the registration of baptisms, stillbirths and the heavy “traffic in corpses” which was clearly a major defect of vital registration in Georgian Newcastle.

Human Nature Is the Bride

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Daniel Cere
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Erotic

Abstract Recent scholarship has accented the impact of evolving forms of bridal mysticism on late medieval popular spiritualities of the Low Countries. Under the laicizing impulses of Devotio Moderna, these narratives were extended as models for the spiritual life of the laity as well as the consecrated religious. A number of Bosch’s key works appear to engage and explore the themes of bridal anthropology, as well as advance perspectives on bridal eschatology. These intersections between the Boschian imagination and the evolving tradition of bridal mysticism shed light on the puzzling play of the religious and the erotic in his work.

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