ABSTRACT

This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still relevant today.

A diverse range of expert scholars share new research in their discipline, ranging across technology, trade, politics, religion and the arts. Different aspects of this history of competition, alliance, migration and conflict are taken up by each chapter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader background and its historical roots. 

Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing current research in multiple facets of the Early Modern World.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Most Ancient Allies and Familiar Neighbours

part I|47 pages

Travel, Language, and Education

chapter 1|9 pages

Anglo-Belgica

Reading Anglo-Dutch Relations in Multilingual Conversation Manuals

chapter 2|11 pages

Let Whitehall Shake

Seventeenth-Century Dutch Travelogues on War and Turmoil in England

part II|43 pages

Immigration, Empire, and Colonialism

chapter 6|10 pages

Sex in the City

Anglo-Dutch Relations in Seventeenth-Century Batavia

chapter 7|10 pages

“Going Wild”

Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch and English Interests on the Oyapock River

chapter 8|12 pages

In Search of Strayed Englishmen

English Seamen Employed in the Dutch East India Company in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

part III|31 pages

News, Letters, and War

chapter 10|9 pages

Prorogations and Perorations

Reading News about Parliament in the United Provinces, 1672–1674

part IV|36 pages

Print Culture

chapter 12|12 pages

‘How the English nation derived mostly from the Dutch’

The Study of Old Dutch and the Development of the Printing of Old English

chapter 13|12 pages

Print and Piracy

The Publication History of John Selden's Mare clausum

chapter 14|10 pages

Anglo-Dutch Exchange and Book History

Early Modern Female Stationers Crossing Borders

part V|32 pages

Literary and Diplomatic Exchange

chapter 15|9 pages

From Antwerpen to London and Back via Paris

Jan van der Noot's Theatre Connecting People and Languages

chapter 16|11 pages

Focquen-wat?

Dutch and English Libertine Poets

chapter 17|10 pages

‘In sight of the whole world’

Public Diplomacy and the Anglo-Dutch Community in Livorno in 1666 1

part VI|33 pages

Religious Pluralism and Radicalism

chapter 18|10 pages

‘Gods kerke voor hare vyanden bewaart’

Fast and Prayer Days in the English Stranger Churches (1560–1603)

chapter 19|10 pages

Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch Nonconformists

The Cases of David Joris (George) and Menasseh ben Israel

chapter 20|11 pages

Plockhoy's Portable Utopia

Bridging Radical Circles in England and the Netherlands

part VII|43 pages

Design, Technology, and Production

chapter 22|10 pages

The Dutch Painter and the English Virtuosi

Samuel van Hoogstraten and the Royal Society

chapter 23|8 pages

Technology in a Hostile Environment

The Case of Cornelius Vermuyden

chapter |11 pages

Afterword