Taal van de Republiek. Het gebruik van vaderlandretoriek in Nederlandse pamfletten, 1618-1672

This thesis deals with the use of the concepts fatherland and patriot (and patria and nation) in seventeenth-century Dutch pamphlets. It focuses on specific years of crisis, when the Dutch Republic came close to disintegration. Three of the most significant political conflicts of the seventeenth century have been selected: the so-called Truce controversies during the Twelve Years’ Truce (Bestandstwisten), especially in the years 1618-1619, the conflict between stadholder Willem II on one side and the province of Holland and Amsterdam on the other in 1650, and the ‘Year of Disaster’, 1672. In t... Mehr ...