Myth in History, History in Myth : Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York, June 5-6, 2006)
CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Myth in History, History in Myth (Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff); "How Great the Enterprise, How Glorious the Deed": Seventeenth-Century Dutch Circumnavigations as Useful Myths (Donald J. Harreld); The Orangist Myth, 16501672 (Jill Stern); Myth, History, and Image in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century (Jac Geurts); The Wise Man Has Two Tongues: Images of the Satyr and Peasant by Jordaens and Steen (Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard); Emblematic Myths: Anneke's Fortune, Bogardus's Farewell, and Kieft 's Son (Willem Frijhoff)
International Law and National Existence: The Myth of Strict Neutrality (1918?) (Hubert P. van Tuyll)The Epic Story of the Little Republic That Could: The Role of Patriotic Myths in the Dutch Golden Age (Laura Cruz); History and Myth of Dutch Popular Protest in the Napoleonic Period (18061813) (Johan Joor); 'Neerlands Israel': Political Theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical Antiquarianism, and Historical Myth (Theodor D
Summary
Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous historians
