The Concept of the Citizen in the Early-Modern Netherlands, 1400 – 1700

Impressed and inspired by the results of German, but increasingly also of international research in the field of conceptual history, a group of Dutch scholars in the 1990s decided to initiate a research project in Dutch conceptual history. In this initiative they were much aided by the award of a research group at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) during the academic year 1994-1995 and which resulted in the pilot study ‘History of Concepts; Comparative Perspective’s edited by Iain Hampsher-Monk, Karin Tilmans and Frank van Vree in 1998. T... Mehr ...