Angstcultuur en complotdenken tijdens het Bestand.:De karaktermoord op Johan van Oldebarnevelt (1617-1619)
A remarkable public attack was launched against John of Oldenbarnevelt during the Dutch Truce Conflicts of 1609-1619, which culminated in his execution in May 1619. This article analyses the genesis and effectiveness of this early modern ‘character assassination’ of a leader of state. It argues that this attack derived its power from a carefully nourished, international, protestant culture of fear, in which the preservation of the Dutch Republic was deemed essential to the survival of protestantism as a whole. Two interconnected elements of this culture of fear played into the hands of Oldenba... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Helmers , H 2021 , ' Angstcultuur en complotdenken tijdens het Bestand. De karaktermoord op Johan van Oldebarnevelt (1617-1619) ' , Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis , vol. 153 , no. 2 , 23 , pp. 230 . https://doi.org/10.5117/TVG2021.2.005.HELM |
| Schlagwörter: | Dutch Republic / Truce Period (1609-1621) / Johan van Oldenbarnevelt / character assassination / culture of fear |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27414763 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/e66a0918-c2f4-4415-86f7-404cdb25448a |
A remarkable public attack was launched against John of Oldenbarnevelt during the Dutch Truce Conflicts of 1609-1619, which culminated in his execution in May 1619. This article analyses the genesis and effectiveness of this early modern ‘character assassination’ of a leader of state. It argues that this attack derived its power from a carefully nourished, international, protestant culture of fear, in which the preservation of the Dutch Republic was deemed essential to the survival of protestantism as a whole. Two interconnected elements of this culture of fear played into the hands of Oldenbarnevelt’s opponents: the steady stream of international news to the Dutch Republic due to its new infrastructure of news, and the dominant conspiratorial mindset amongst the elite and the wider public alike.