Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World

359 Pages·2023·29.396 MB·English

by  Sjoerd Levelt, Esther van Raamsdonk, Michael D. Rose

Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early
Modern World
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 chap-
ter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader back-
ground 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.
Sjoerd Levelt is Senior Research Associate of the Leverhulme Trust project The
Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, c.1050–c.1600, University of Bristol. He is
a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Society for Renaissance
Studies Book Prize 2012 for his first monograph, Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of
Holland. His recent book North Sea Crossings, co-authored with Ad Putter, tells the
story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in
the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Esther van Raamsdonk is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for
the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick), researching the politics of
biblical translation and narrative in an Anglo-Dutch context. She published a
recent monograph on Milton, Marvell and the Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2021).
Before joining Warwick, she worked as postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-
funded Networking Archives project. She has published in Renaissance Studies,
The Seventeenth Century, Milton Quarterly, and Renaissance and Reformation.
Michael D. Rose is a Researcher Developer at the University of Surrey. He writes
on the intersection of philosophy and literature, having completed a PhD on
Wittgenstein, poetry and the inexpressible. Publications include ‘I will draw a map
of what you never see’ in Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature (Palgrave,
2016) and ‘The Wittgenstein Vector’ (Kadar Koli, 2016). He is commissioning edi-
tor of Spindlebox poetry press and co-ordinates the Surrey Arts and Humanities
Research Group.
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Anglo-Dutch Connections
in the Early Modern World
Edited by Sjoerd Levelt,
Esther van Raamsdonk, and
Michael D. Rose
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Names: Levelt, Sjoerd, editor. | Van Raamsdonk, Esther, editor. | Rose,
Michael D. (Researcher developer), editor.
Title: Anglo-Dutch connections in the early modern world / edited by Sjoerd
Levelt, Esther van Raamsdonk, and Michael D. Rose.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
Series: Routledge studies in Renaissance and early modern worlds of
knowledge | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022041215 (print) | LCCN 2022041216 (ebook) | ISBN
9780367502331 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367502348 (paperback) | ISBN
9781003049180 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: England--Relations--Netherlands. |
Netherlands--Relations--England. | Great Britain--History--1066-1687. |
Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648. |
Netherlands--History--1648-1714.
Classification: LCC DA47.3 .A538 2023 (print) | LCC DA47.3 (ebook) | DDC
949.2/03--dc23/eng/20221128
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ISBN: 978-0-367-50233-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-50234-8 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003049180
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The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas
Andrew Marvell, ‘The Garden’, ll. 43–46
Dedicated to the memory of Gijs Rommelse,
much missed colleague and scholar.

Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiv
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations xvii
List of Contributors xviii
Introduction: Most Ancient Allies and Familiar Neighbours 1
SJOERD LEVELT, ESTHER VAN RAAMSDONK, AND MICHAEL D. ROSE
PART I
Travel, Language, and Education 21
1 Anglo-Belgica: Reading Anglo-Dutch Relations in
Multilingual Conversation Manuals 23
JOHN GALLAGHER
2 Let Whitehall Shake: Seventeenth-Century Dutch
Travelogues on War and Turmoil in England 32
ALAN MOSS
3 British Students at Leiden University 43
MARTINE ZOETEMAN-VAN PELT
4 The English Travels of Constantijn Huygens
(1596–1687) 55
INEKE HUYSMAN
viii Contents
PART II
Immigration, Empire, and Colonialism 69
5 The “Amboyna Massacre” Through Native Eyes 71
SU FANG NG
6 Sex in the City: Anglo-Dutch Relations in
Seventeenth-Century Batavia 80
DEBORAH HAMER
7 “Going Wild”: Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch
and English Interests on the Oyapock River 90
SILVIA ESPELT-BOMBIN AND MARTIJN VAN DEN BEL
8 In Search of Strayed Englishmen: English Seamen
Employed in the Dutch East India Company in
the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 100
JELLE VAN LOTTUM AND LODEWIJK PETRAM
PART III
News, Letters, and War 113
9 The Proprietorship of the Sea during the Anglo-Dutch
Wars, 1652–1674 115
GIJS ROMMELSE
10 Prorogations and Perorations: Reading News about
Parliament in the United Provinces, 1672–1674 124
JACK AVERY
11 What is “Dutch” in the Stuart State Papers? 133
YANN RYAN AND ESTHER VAN RAAMSDONK
PART IV
Print Culture 145
12 ‘How the English nation derived mostly from
the Dutch’: The Study of Old Dutch and
the Development of the Printing of Old English 147
SJOERD LEVELT
Contents ix
13 Print and Piracy: The Publication History of John
Selden’s Mare clausum 159
HANNA DE LANGE
14 Anglo-Dutch Exchange and Book History: Early
Modern Female Stationers Crossing Borders 171
MARTINE VAN ELK
PART V
Literary and Diplomatic Exchange 181
15 From Antwerpen to London and Back via Paris:
Jan van der Noot’s Theatre Connecting People and
Languages 183
ALISA VAN DE HAAR
16 Focquen-wat? Dutch and English Libertine Poets 192
NIGEL SMITH
17 ‘In sight of the whole world’: Public Diplomacy
and the Anglo-Dutch Community in Livorno in 1666 203
NINA LAMAL
PART VI
Religious Pluralism and Radicalism 213
18 ‘Gods kerke voor hare vyanden bewaart’: Fast and Prayer
Days in the English Stranger Churches (1560–1603) 215
SILKE MUYLAERT
19 Seventeenth-Century English Writers on Dutch
Nonconformists: The Cases of David Joris (George)
and Menasseh ben Israel 225
GARY K. WAITE
20 Plockhoy’s Portable Utopia: Bridging Radical Circles
in England and the Netherlands 235
MICHAEL D. ROSE AND ESTHER VAN RAAMSDONK