Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic

273 Pages·2010·2.782 MB·English

by  Femke Deen, David Onnekink, Michel Reinders

Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic
Library of the Written Word
VOLUME 12
Th e Handpress World
Editor-in-Chief
Andrew Pettegree
University of St Andrews
Editorial Board
Ann Blair
Harvard University
Falk Eisermann
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preuβischer Kulturbesitz
Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
University of Virginia
VOLUME 7
Pamphlets and Politics in the
Dutch Republic
Edited by
Femke Deen
David Onnekink
Michel Reinders
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
On the cover: Sendtbrieven bij de Ridderschappen, Edelen ende Steden van Hollandt (1577)
Knuttel 277/ Het aengeplackt Biljet (1672) Tiele 6125/ Redenering over het gedrag der regeering
van Groot Brittanje, ten opzigte der neutrale natien, Geduurende den tegenwoordigen Oorlog
(1759) Knuttel 18722/ J. van Vliet, de pamfl ettenverkoper of liedjeszanger Atlas van Stolk,
Rotterdam 2110.
Th is book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pamphlets and politics in the Dutch Republic / edited by Femke Deen, David Onnekink,
Michel Reinders.
p. cm. -- (Library of the written word, ISSN 1874-4834 ; v. 12) (Th e handpress world ; v. 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-19178-5 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Netherlands--Politics and
government--1556-1648. 2. Netherlands--Politics and government--1648-1714.
3. Netherlands--Politics and government--1714-1795. 4. Pamphlets--Netherlands--History.
5. Pamphleteers--Netherlands--History. 6. Political culture--Netherlands--History.
7. Netherlands--Intellectual life. I. Deen, Femke. II. Onnekink, David. III. Reinders, Michel,
1979- IV. Title. V. Series.
DJ158.P2 2011
949.2'04--dc22
2010042243
ISSN 1874-4834
ISBN 978 90 04 19178 5
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................vii
List of Contributors ...................................................................................ix
List of Abbreviations .................................................................................xi
Introduction
Pamphlets and Politics: Introduction ..........................................................3
Femke Deen, David Onnekink and Michel Reinders
Return to the Land of Blue Little Books ..................................................31
Craig Harline
Part I: Th e Pamphlet and its Function
Th ievery of Literature. Consequences of the Interaction between
Politics and Commerce for the Form and Content of Pamphlets......37
Roeland Harms
Political Pamphleteering and Public Opinion in the Age of
De Witt (1653–1672) ............................................................................63
Guido de Bruin
‘Th e Citizens come from all Cities with Petitions’. Printed
Petitions and Civic Propaganda in the Seventeenth Century ...........97
Michel Reinders
Part II: Th e Pamphlet as an Historical Actor
Poison in Print: Pamphleteering and the Deaths of
Concini (1617) and the brothers De Witt (1672) .............................121
Jill Stern
Th e Revolution in Dutch Foreign Policy (1688) ...................................143
David Onnekink
Economic Reform and Neutrality in Dutch Political
Pamphlets (1741–1779) ......................................................................173
Koen Stapelbroek
vi contents
Part III: Public Debate and the Media
Handwritten Propaganda. Letters and Pamphlets in
Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt (1572–1578) .........................207
Femke Deen
Peace or no Peace? Th e Role of Pamphleteering in Public
Debate in the Run-up to the Twelve-Year Truce ..............................227
Monica Stensland
Index ........................................................................................................253
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Th e editors wish to thank the Institute for History and Culture (OGC)
of Utrecht University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute for
Culture and History of University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Organisation for Scientifi c Research (NWO), Flemish-Dutch Com-
mittee for Dutch Language and Culture (VNC) and Kate Delaney.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Guido de Bruin (1950) is Lecturer in early modern History at Utrecht
University. He is the author of Geheimhouding en verraad. De geheim-
houding van staatszaken ten tijde van de Republiek (1600–1750) (Th e
Hague, 1991).
Femke Deen (1975) studied Cultural Anthropology and worked as a
journalist for fi ve years before starting as a PhD-candidate at the
University of Amsterdam. She is currently fi nishing her thesis on pub-
lic debate and propaganda in Amsterdam during the Dutch Revolt
(1566–1580). She published an article on Beggar Songs during the
Dutch Revolt in 2008 in Historisch Tijdschrift Holland.
Craig Harline received a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University, and
is currently professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is
the author of Pamphlets, Printing, and Political Culture in the Early
Dutch Republic (Nijhoff , 1987), Th e Burdens of Sister Margaret
(abridged ed. Yale, 2000) A Bishop’s Tale (Yale University Press, 2000),
and Miracles at the Jesus Oak (Doubleday, 2003), several of which have
been translated into Dutch. His current research treats the impact of
conversion upon family relationships aft er the Reformation.
Roeland Harms (1979) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Utrecht
University. His PhD thesis, entitled Th e Invention of Public Opinion:
Pamphlets as Massa Media in the Seventeenth Century, was fi nished in
2010. He is currently working as a postdoc within the research project
‘Popularization and Media Strategies (1700–1900)’. Harms has pub-
lished about popular literature, pedlars and printed news in the seven-
teenth century.
David Onnekink (1971) is Lecturer at Utrecht University. He fi nished
his PhD thesis in 2004, which was published as Th e Anglo-Dutch
Favourite. Th e Career of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland
(Aldershot, 2007). He is interested in foreign policy, ideology and reli-
gious confl ict, and has edited several volumes of essays on these sub-
jects. Currently he is fi nishing a monograph on ideology and Dutch
foreign policy.
x list of contributors
Michel Reinders (1979) is researcher of early modern politics and
public opinion. He completed his PhD thesis Printed Pandemonium
about pamphleteering during the Year of Disaster 1672 in 2008 at
Erasmus University Rotterdam. Reinders has published articles about
petitions and pamphleteering and is co-editor (with J. Hartman,
J. Nieuwstraten) of Public Offi ces, Private Demands. Capability in
Governance in the 17th-Century Dutch Republic (Newcastle, 2009).
He is the author of Gedrukte Chaos. Populisme en moord in het Rampjaar
1672 (Amsterdam, 2010).
Koen Stapelbroek (1974) is a Lecturer at the department of Public
Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Academy of
Finland researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and published
Love, Self-Deceit and Money. Commerce and Morality in the Early
Neapolitan Enlightenment (Toronto, 2008). He published articles and
edited volumes on Italian and Dutch eighteenth-century political
thought, including two special issues of History of European Ideas.
Currently, he is fi nishing a monograph on Dutch eighteenth-century
political economic reform debates and starting up comparative research
on such debates in the old Italian states.
Monica Stensland (1980) completed her D.Phil thesis entitled Habsburg
Communication in the Dutch Revolt, 1567–1609 in 2008 at the University
of Oxford. Her thesis will be published in 2010 by Amsterdam
University Press. She now works for the Norwegian Foreign Service.
Jill Stern earned her Doctorate in Dutch History from University
College London. Her book Th e Orangists in the Dutch Republic in Word
and Image 1650 to 1675 was published in April 2011 by Manchester
University Press. Stern was awarded the Pollard Prize of the Institute
of Historical Research for her work on “Th e Rhetoric of Popular
Orangism, 1650–1672”. She has published several articles, including
“A Playwright in his Time. Vondel’s Drama Faeton of 1663”, Dutch
Crossing 23 (1999) and “Religion and the Orangists 1650–1675”, Dutch
Crossing 30 (2006).