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Francesco Feroni (1614/16-1696): broker in cereals, slaves and works of art
No full textFrancesco Feroni (1614/16-1696), son of a wool dyer, had an exceptional career. A Tuscan-born immigrant in Amsterdam, Feroni became within a few years one of the wealthiest merchant-bankers of the city, and this thanks to the trade in Baltic grain, Spanish wool and above all African slaves. Moreover, because of his standing as a businessman, Feroni evolved as well into the principal agent of the Medici Grand Dukes in the Dutch Republic. His tasks as an agent were multiple: he informed the Grand Duke and other members of his family in weekly letters, he acted as their representative towards the Dutch authorities and he facilitated their acquisitions of cultural artefacts, such as books, paintings and tapestries, on the Netherlands markets.sponsorship: OE_Geschiedenis: Nieuwe Tijd.status: Publishe
Een vreemde eend in de Hollandse bijt. De gesneefde loopbaan van co-adjutor Zacharias de Metz (ca. 1600-1661)
No full textBiografische schets van de Zuidnederlandse clericus zeventiende-eeuwse clericus Zacharias de Metz. De Metz was co-adjutor van de Hollandse Zending, maar werd uit Amsterdam verbannen nadat hij de restricties die de plaatselijke magistraat hem had opgelegd niet had nageleefd. De Metz verzeilde in conflicten met het Haarlemse kapittel en met de karmelieten.status: Publishe
Gunn (Steven), Grummit (David) & Cools (Hans). War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands (1477-1559).
No full textVermeesch Griet. Gunn (Steven), Grummit (David) & Cools (Hans). War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands (1477-1559). . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 86, fasc. 3-4, 2008. pp. 943-944
The Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart as an author of dialogue pamphlets
No full textThe Antwerp Jesuit Cornelius Hazart as an author of dialogue pamphlets
Cornelius Hazart (1617-1690) was a prolific author. Amongst many another things, he published a monumental four volume Church History (De Kerckelyke Historie vanden Gheheelen Wereldt, 1667-1671) and dozens of pamphlets in which he argued that only roman Catholics could expect salvation and that their church was by far superior to the various competing protestant institutions (Martens, 2012). Many of these pamphlets were presented as imaginary, but seemingly realistic dialogues between various characters.
In recent years, Dutch scholars have paid attention to the genre of dialogue pamphlets (Dingemanse 2008). They have argued that such dialogue pamphlets were a typical feature of the ‘discussion culture’ that characterized the Dutch Republic (Frijhoff and Spies, 1999). In the Habsburg Netherlands power relations were more vertically structured than in the Dutch Republic. But just as in the Republic, literacy levels in these regions remained high and a reading culture was firmly rooted amongst urban populations (Jacobs and Verberckmoes, 2006). Therefore authorities made use of pamphlets to win over public opinion. Due to their realistic settings, dialogue pamphlets were particularly suited to enact power relations and to enhance the confessionalisation process.
In this paper, I shall analyze Hazart’s dialogue pamphlets. As a preacher of the Antwerp St Ignatius church he was a well-known polemicist. In particular, after the Peace of Munster, when relationships with the Dutch Republic were restored, Hazart used this form. Apparently, he and his fellow clergymen feared that Catholics, who had frequent contacts with northerners, would be lured into Protestantism. Not surprisingly, a detailed reading of Hazart’s dialogue pamphlets reveals that he emphasized the catholic stance on controversial points of doctrine. Moreover, and maybe more importantly, he ridiculed his counterparts, the protestant ministers. Thereby he created powerful stereotypes that would be deeply rooted in the collective imagery of the post Tridentine Catholic Netherlands.
Source material
A corpus of dialogue pamphlets by Cornelius Hazart has been compiled by searches into the STCV-database.
Basic references
C. Dingemanse, Rap van tong, scherp van pen: Literaire discussiecultuur in Nederlandse praatjespamfletten (circa 1600-1750). (Hilversum, 2008).
W. Frijhoff and M. Spies, 1650. Bevochten eendracht (The Hague, 1999).
M. Jacobs and J. Verberckmoes, ‘Populair drukwerk’ in P. Janssens ed. België in de 17de eeuw. De Spaanse Nederlanden en het Prinsbisdom Luik. Band II: Cultuur en Leefwereld (Brussels and Gent, 2006) 106-110.
B. Martens, ‘Nederlandse religieuze controversepublicaties en de kunst van het argumenteren in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (ca. 1591-c. 1688)’, in Trajecta, 19-20 (2012), 241-272.status: Publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
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