Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic

Femke Deen (1975) studied Cultural Anthropology and worked as a journalist for five years before starting as a PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She is currently finishing her thesis on public 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 Holland Historisch Tijdschrift.David Onnekink (1971) is Lecturer at the University of Utrecht. He finished his PhD thesis in 2004, which was published as The Anglo-Dutch Favourite. The Career of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (Aldershot, 2007). He is interested in foreign policy, ideology and religious conflict, and has edited several volumes of essays on these subjects. Currently he is finishing a monograph on ideology and Dutch foreign policy.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 Offices, 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).

"Insgesamt ist es den Autoren [...] vorzüglich gelungen, spannende Einsichten über Wirkung und Wirkungslosigkeit,Kontextualisierung und Diskursentwicklung am Beispiel von Pamphleten vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert unter den Bedingungen der niederländischen Republik darzubieten und mit neuen methodischen Ansätzen etwa aus der Literaturwissenschaft den Quellen interessante Erkenntnisse abzugewinnen."Oswald Bauer, Lajen, Austria. In: Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Vol. 120, No. 2 (2012), pp. 461-463.