{"title":"Why was Slavery not Abolished in 1798?","authors":"Dirk Alkemade","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.12807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.12807","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘problem of slavery’ was an important moral issue in the eighteenth-century Dutch enlightened press, but the increase in publications on this topic did not lead to any serious attempts to abolish the practice. This seemed to change during the Batavian Revolution, when abolition was briefly discussed in parliament. This article analyses Dutch anti-slavery debates, especially within the context of the Dutch revolutionary parliament in 1797. It shows that the humanitarian sentiments in these debates did not automatically lead to support for abolition. Only radical representatives argued for the abolishment of slavery on the grounds of ‘human rights’. On this basis, this article posits a hermeneutical distinction between anti-slavery and abolition.","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140735703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renaud Adam, Rosa De Marco, and Malcolm Walsby (eds.), Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th-17th Centuries)","authors":"Elise Watson","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18936","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"182 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140754901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grace T. Leksana, Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering","authors":"Silvia Mayasari-Hoffert","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18934","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"253 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140751294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wendy Wauters, De geuren van de kathedraal. De overweldigende 16de eeuw in Antwerpen","authors":"Rogier Van Kooten","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"90 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, Jeroen Puttevils
{"title":"(Fe)male Voices on Stage","authors":"Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, Jeroen Puttevils","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.13872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.13872","url":null,"abstract":"Dit artikel onderzoekt de patronen in loterijrijmpjes uit de laatmiddeleeuwse en vroegmoderne Lage Landen, met een focus op de rijmpjes geschreven door vrouwen. Loterijen waren een populaire methode om geld op te halen, en de loterijrijmpjes, persoonlijke boodschappen die werden neergeschreven op de loten, zijn een waardevolle bron voor historici. We verzamelden meer dan 11,000 gedigitaliseerde korte teksten afkomstig van vijf loterijen die plaatsvonden tussen 1446 en 1606. In de analyse maakten we gebruik van GysBERT, een taalmodel voor historisch Nederlands, om kenmerkende discoursen voor mannelijke en vrouwelijke auteurs te identificeren. Hoewel GysBERTs resultaten ons op het spoor brachten van enkele interessante patronen, lieten ze ook zien dat de rijmpjes geschreven door mannen en vrouwen niet radicaal van elkaar verschillen. Dit is in lijn met inzichten uit de historiografie over vroegmoderne vrouwen, waarin wordt benadrukt dat vrouwen functioneerden binnen maatschappelijke, en in dit geval ook literaire, conventies. Soms werden deze conventies door vrouwen ondermijnd, soms aangepast, maar soms ook zonder verandering overgenomen.\u0000This article explores the patterns in lottery rhymes produced in the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, with a focus on the rhymes written by women. The lottery was a popular fundraising event in the Low Countries. Lottery rhymes, personal messages attached to the lottery tickets, provide a valuable source for historians. We collected more than 11,000 digitised short texts from five lotteries held between 1446 and 1606. We have used GysBERT, a language model of historical Dutch, to identify distinctively male and female discourses in the lottery rhymes corpus. Although the model pointed us to some interesting patterns, it also showed that lottery rhymes written by men and women do not radically differ from each other. This is consistent with insights from premodern women’s history which stresses that women worked within societal, and in this case literary, conventions, sometimes subverting them, sometimes adapting them, sometimes adopting them unchanged.","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"103 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140380502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Van de redactie - From the editors","authors":"M. Beyen","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"125 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140381218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Het verhaal van Vlaanderen","authors":"Yves Huybrechts, Sabine Schmitz","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.15333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.15333","url":null,"abstract":"In deze bijdrage analyseren we Het verhaal van Vlaanderen vanuit het perspectief van een buitenstaander. Ten eerste bevragen wij het mediaformat van de televisieserie en ten tweede het beeld van de geschiedenis dat daarin wordt gehanteerd. Kan deze serie als een documentaire worden gecategoriseerd, of gaat het hier toch eerder om entertainment, of hebben we met een mengvorm te maken? En welk geschiedenisverhaal hanteert de serie? Dit beeld van de geschiedenis is niet duidelijk omdat de geografische focus van de reeks op het huidige Vlaanderen ligt. Wij betogen dat zowel het wisselende mediaformat alsook de variërende inhoud een rol speelt in de controverse die rond Het verhaal van Vlaanderen is ontstaan.","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"108 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140379607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geschiedenis zonder bewegend beeld – en toch op televisie","authors":"M. Prak","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.18607","url":null,"abstract":"Historicus Maarten Prak reflecteert in dit essay op zijn eigen bijdrage aan een episode van Het verhaal van Nederland. Hij verbindt dit aan de doelstellingen van deze serie uit 2022 en aan de opzet en receptie van eerdere televisiereeksen over Nederlandse geschiedenis waaraan hij heeft deelgenomen.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"20 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Daan op zijn knieën","authors":"J. Pekelder, Neele Teneyken","doi":"10.51769/bmgn-lchr.17481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.17481","url":null,"abstract":"In deze forumbijdrage kijken wij kritisch naar Het verhaal van Nederland (2022), de tiendelige televisieserie van de NPO. Op basis van drie criteria – de educatieve meerwaarde voor met name jonge (Duitse) kijkers, de aansluiting bij recente geschiedwetenschappelijke inzichten en de bijdrage aan kritisch-historisch besef – beoordelen we de opbouw, inhoud en opmaak van de serie. Onze bijzondere aandacht gaat daarbij uit naar het gebruik van re-enactment, omdat die techniek in de Nederlandse geschiedenistelevisie relatief uniek is. Ons oordeel pakt deels negatief uit: inzake de eerste twee criteria scoort Het verhaal goed, op het derde punt minder. Mede door de re- enactmentscènes ligt alle nadruk in de nieuwe serie op ‘het verhaal’. Nadat voorgangers van deze televisieserie juist het kritisch meedenken door de kijker over de constructie van geschiedenisverhalen hadden bevorderd, zien wij dit als stap terug.","PeriodicalId":504931,"journal":{"name":"BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}