Der geeichte Eichpunt - niederländische Kultur um 1650 europäisch kontextualisiert: 'Bevochten eendracht' von Willem Frijhoff und Marijke Spies

The paper evaluates the 1650-IJkpunt-volume as a well-conceptualized and well-written example of up-to-date, national cultural history in a European perspective, which should serve as a historiographical model for research and syntheses on other national cultures and histories in early modern Europe. It comments in detail first on the theoretical and methodological principles of research and writing on early modern European societies after the end of the continent's division into two power blocs (§ I). Second, on the implications of 'time' and 'space', in which 1650 acts as a starting point fo... Mehr ...