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This book aims to present a general history of the Amsterdam grain trade on the Baltic in the early-modern period, and concentrates particularly on the development and role of transaction costs.
Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the past alive, and allow us to sketch six intimate portraits. The second part of the book concentrates on the changes. Childhood became more highly valued as a phase of life. Children were taken more seriously. This is shown in chapters on child's play, punishment, wet-nursing and independence. Around 1800, in diaries, parents more openly grieved about the loss of a child, which indicates both a change of literary conventions and changes in the way emotions were felt and expressed. Finally, autobiographers wrote more and differently about their early years, and developed new memory strategies. Autobiographical texts are discussed within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book makes clear how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either opponents or sympathizers, as a means of demonizing or promoting the dissident, radical free church movement. This volume explores the characteristics, backgrounds and effects of the collective perceptions of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, as well as their self-understanding, from the sixteenth into the nineteenth centuries, in a variety of case studies. This is not a gender study in the traditional sense. The theory of imagology sets the stage for the interpretation of the image of the European Mennonite sisters, acting within their religious, moral, cultural and social landscapes of Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine (tsarist Russia).
inhoudsopgave: Inhoud: LUDO VANDAMME, Doopsgezinden in Brugge, 1555-1575 MICHAEL CLEMENS, De Mennonieten van Neustadtgödens en hun contacten in de Nederlanden DAAN C. DE CLERCQ, Een verdwenen en vergeten 'mennistenhemel' aan het Gein B.E. DOP/M.R. KREMER, Van Oude Vlamingen en Nieuwe Zwitsers. Doopsgezinde bewegingen vanuit Deventer naar Groningen in het begin van de achttiende eeuw A.G. VAN GILSE, Jan van Gilse 1810-1859, liberaal doopsgezind theoloog ALLE HOEKEMA, 150 jaar doopsgezinde zending in historisch perspectief P. ESTER, 'Wel in, maar niet van de wereld'. Cultuursociologische schets van de Amish gemeenschap in Amerika DAAN C. DE CLERCQ, Verkennende beschouwingen over de doopsgezin...
In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation. But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archiv...
Richard Coman was born between 1658 and 1660. He married Martha Gilbert Rewe, daughter of Humphrey Gilbert, 25 October 1683 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. They had one daughter. He married Elizabeth Dynn Callum 4 February 1692/3 in Salem, Massachusetts. They had five children. He died 18 July 1716 in Providence, Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York.
Uylenburgh & Son provides insight into the nature and significance of the Uylenburghs enterprise and also discusses their investors and customers.
Corbeddu cave in Sardinia contains Late Pleistocene sediments bearing numerous deer fossils. The faunal analyses described in the present study reconstruct the role of human activities in the site formation processes based on quantitative analyses of these fossil assemblages. The collected material and a large dataset provide detailed information about the microstratigraphy of the site, which has been reconstructed using a newly developed computer program, making it possible to distinguish fossil levels. For each reconstructed level the horizontal spatial distribution, the skeletal element representation, the degree of fragmentation, the presence of associated elements, the age and sex compositions, and specific damage patterns have been analyzed. It is concluded that the assemblages cannot have been formed by natural processes alone. In the Corbeddu cave the assemblages' relationship with feeding activity is less evident than for mainland assemblages; possibly the use of bones as tools played an important role.
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