Christopher Joby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1436795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Joby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Joby |
| SIGNATURE | JOBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9889-7781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Uneasy Encounters: Christian Churches in Greater China, written by Magdaléna Rychetská
Variation dialectale dans la langue favorlang
Le favorlang était une langue austronésienne de Taïwan, ou formosane, qui est aujourd’hui éteinte. On pense qu’il s’agissait d’une forme ancienne du babuza, qui appartient au sous-groupe des plaines de l’ouest au sein des langues formosanes parlées dans la région centre-ouest de Taïwan. Au dix-septième siècle, pendant la période de colonisation hollandaise de Taïwan (1624–1662), des missionnaires hollandais entrèrent en contact avec le peuple fav…
The birth pains of the Great Yarmouth Stranger community
In 1570, Queen Elizabeth I issued letters patent for the settlement in Great Yarmouth of 30 individuals and their households from the Low Countries, many of whom were escaping religious persecution. This article analyses the early years of the Dutch Stranger community that was established in Yarmouth. It examines who these Strangers were, where they came from, why they left their homes, and what they did in Yarmouth. Furthermore, it analyses the …
Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices
Money in the Norwich Stranger communities, 1565–1615
For several hundred years after the mid-sixteenth century, there were two exile or Stranger communities in Norwich, many of whose members were Calvinists who worked in the textile trade. This article investigates three aspects of the financial activities of these exiles: the types of coins they used; how they financed their commercial activities; and how financial disputes between Strangers were resolved, above all by officials known as Politic M…
Language Revitalisation Using Historical Texts: The Case of Siraya
To achieve national recognition, Plains Indigenous people (aka Pingpu) in Taiwan need an ethnolect. The language of one Plains Indigenous group, the Siraya, was extinct for most of the twentieth century. However, one advantage they have over other Plains Indigenous groups seeking national recognition is that much of their language was written down by Dutch missionaries in the seventeenth century with the assistance of their Siraya forefathers. Th…
Flemish and Walloon exile communities in sixteenth-century Norwich: A case study of local and national responses to large-scale migration from the Low Countries
In 1565, the Mayor of Norwich, Thomas Sotherton, proposed to his fellow aldermen that the city invite thirty master textile workers from the Low Countries and their households to Norwich to revive its flagging economy. Letters patent were issued by Queen Elizabeth and on 1 June 1566, Sotherton put his seal on an order naming the thirty masters. They would form the basis of two exile communities in Norwich, one Flemish and one Walloon. This articl…
Law and Order in Exile Communities in Early Modern Norfolk
In November 1565, Queen Elizabeth issued Letters Patent permitting thirty textile masters from the Low Countries to settle in Norwich and practice their trade. By early 1566, two language communities, one Dutch and the other French, had been established, each with its own church. However, in the wake of the Iconoclastic Fury in the Low Countries, which began in August 1566, many Calvinists left their homes and moved to Norwich. By 1568, the numbe…
The Dutch Exile Community in King's Lynn: A Forgotten Moment in Anglo‐Dutch Contact
Before, during and after the start of the Dutch Revolt, thousands of people, principally Calvinists, left the Low Countries for England. They established communities in more than twenty towns including the borough of King's Lynn in west Norfolk. Exiles from Flanders and Holland began arriving in Lynn in 1567, and they soon established a Calvinist church community there. A 1571 census indicates that the exile community had more than 200 members, m…
Food Culture in Precolonial Taiwan
Central to food culture are food practices that encompass any activity in which food is involved. Furthermore, food culture studies analyse the many meanings generated by these practices. This article explores food culture in precolonial Taiwan. It charts the meanings generated by the food practices of the Siraya, a Formosan ethnic group who lived in southwest Taiwan and had intensive contact with Dutch East India Company colonisers and an array …
The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt
A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic. A recent study by Silke Muylaert (2020) on migrant churches in England engages with this trend. One church that Muylaert analyses is the Flemish church in Norw…
The Dutch Language in the Muslim World (1600-1800)
There was much contact between the Dutch Republic and Muslim world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) (1602-1799) undertook extensive commercial activity in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago, where many Muslims lived. The VOC established trading posts in Bengal, across the Indian sub-continent, in Persia, the Yemen, and at its headquarters in the East Indies at Batavia. Whilst people in these…
Religious Beliefs in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’
There are various approaches to building a picture of the ‘spiritual’ entities in which indigenous Formosans believed in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’. This article does so by studying what sources written in the seventeenth century tell us about them. One source was written by a Chinese observer, and others by two groups of Europeans: Dutch East India Company employees and Spanish missionaries. Thus, one methodological issue is that these authors looked a…
Two Approaches by Dutch Missionaries to Communicating the Gospel in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan
Between 1624 and 1662, the Dutch East India Company operated a trading post in Taiwan. It employed missionaries who attempted to convert indigenous Formosans to Reformed Christianity by compiling texts in the Formosan language, Siraya. This article analyzes texts compiled in this language to establish how the Dutch missionaries used them to communicate the Gospel. This analysis shows that they adopted two distinct approaches to compiling texts in…
Dutch in Eighteenth-Century Japan
In the first hundred years of the Dutch presence in Japan, the Dutch language was used by Dutch, other Europeans and Japanese in a range of social domains. This article considers how Dutch functioned in Japan in the following hundred years, i.e. c. 1700–1800. After discussing who knew Dutch in Japan, it examines the use of the language not by social domain, but rather by the linguistic processes that resulted from contact between Dutch and other …
Missionary linguistics in the East Indies in the seventeenth century
In recent years, there has been increased academic interest in missionary linguistics. However, whereas much has been written on Spanish missionary linguistics, above all in the Americas, relatively little has been published on Dutch missionary linguistics. This article aims to address this situation by analyzing the texts written in Malay by Dutch missionary linguists in the seventeenth century in the East Indies, now Indonesia. It begins by pro…
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds, Dominic Sachsenmaier (2020)
Review of: Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds , Dominic Sachsenmaier (2020) New York: Columbia University Press, 268 pp., ISBN 978-0-23118-753-4, p/bk, $26.00
The Reception of Classical Authors in Taiwan
Revisions to the Siraya lexicon based on the original Utrecht Manuscript: A case study in source data
Linguistic historiography analyzes how linguistic knowledge has been acquired, stored, used and diffused. This article examines what can happen if linguists rely on copies of source data rather than the source data itself. It takes as a case study linguistic data from Siraya, a now-extinct Formosan language. Documents compiled in the seventeenth century by Dutch missionaries in Taiwan form a significant source of data for Siraya. One such documen…
Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Dutch in Seventeenth-Century Japan: A Social History
The first Dutch ship arrived in Japan in 1600. In the next two and a half centuries, some 800 Dutch ships would follow and for most of this period the Dutch were the only Western nation permitted to trade with the Japanese. This article provides a social history of the Dutch language during the first hundred years of the Dutch presence in Japan. Although the focus of this use was Western Kyushu, where the Dutch had trading posts at Hirado and the…
Trilingualism in early modern Norwich
The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of employing archival sources in order to identify when and to what extent a language was used during a particular period in history. It takes as an example Trudgill’s claim that from about 1565, as a result of immigration by Dutch and French speakers from the Low Countries, Norwich was a trilingual city for as much as two hundred years. After a brief description of multilingualism in early …
Recording the History of Dutch in Japan
In general histories of the Dutch language, little or no attention is paid to the use of the language in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, where attention is given, we find a number of factual inaccuracies. In this article, I begin by providing a brief history of the Dutch language in Japan for those readers unfamiliar with this subject. Consideration is then given to three areas in which general histories of Du…
Dutch Poetry in Early Modern Norfolk
In early modern Norfolk there were several thousand people whose mother tongue was Dutch. A number of these wrote poems. Some of the earlier poems were refereyns, a form of verse popular in the late medieval period. In the seventeenth century the Norwich-born son of immigrants from Flanders, Jan Cruso, published two volumes of poetry in which he demonstrates mastery of the Dutch epigram and a newer form of verse, the Dutch alexandrine. We also fi…
Guest Editorial
Early Modern Records in Dutch at the Norfolk Record Office
In the early modern period, numerous people left the Low Countries for England, including many who settled in the county of Norfolk. Although over time these immigrants and their descendants gradually integrated into the local population, the Dutch language continued to be used for some time not only in oral but also in written form. Whilst many documents have been irrevocably lost, others are preserved at the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) in Norwi…
The Dutch Language in Early Modern Norfolk: A Social History
In the early modern period thousands of people whose mother tongue was Dutch came to the English county of Norfolk. Whilst some of them only stayed for a short while, others settled and established communities in the towns of King’s Lynn, Thetford, and Great Yarmouth and the city of Norwich. Whilst the communities in the first two lasted only for a short period, those in Yarmouth and Norwich lasted for over one hundred years. In this article I co…
The Role of London and Other English Cities in the Development of Early Modern Dutch Language and Literature
In accounts of the emergence of a standard language, linguists often adopt what Richard J. Watts terms a ‘tunnel view’ of language, in which those features of a language’s history which do not contribute to the story of the standard language are marginalized or even ignored. In this article, I argue that those who write general histories of Dutch language and literature are sometimes guilty of adopting this ‘tunnel view’. I take the case of Londo…
Early Modern Records in Dutch at the Norfolk Record Office
In the early modern period, numerous people left the Low Countries for England, including many who settled in the county of Norfolk. Although over time these immigrants and their descendants gradually integrated into the local population, the Dutch language continued to be used for some time not only in oral but also in written form. Whilst many documents have been irrevocably lost, others are preserved at the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) in Norwi…
The Use of the Spanish Language by the Dutch Statesman and Man of Letters, Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687)
In the Northern Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War, there was an ambivalent attitude to the knowledge and use of Spanish. For some, a knowledge of Spanish was to be viewed with suspicion. For others, such as Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), knowledge of the language was an essential part of being a humanist scholar. Although he had certain reservations about aspects of Spanish such as its sound, Huygens clearly recognized the cultural impor…
A Dutchman Abroad: Poetry Written by Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) in England
Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) was a notable Dutch statesman who penned over 75,000 lines of verse in eight languages. He made visits to England on no less than seven occasions and wrote a significant body of poetry, primarily in Dutch, but also in Latin, and very occasionally in French and English, during these visits. In this article, a detailed account is given of the poetry, which Huygens wrote in England. It provides a case-study of someone…
Dutch Poetry in Early Modern Norfolk
In early modern Norfolk there were several thousand people whose mother tongue was Dutch. A number of these wrote poems. Some of the earlier poems were refereyns, a form of verse popular in the late medieval period. In the seventeenth century the Norwich-born son of immigrants from Flanders, Jan Cruso, published two volumes of poetry in which he demonstrates mastery of the Dutch epigram and a newer form of verse, the Dutch alexandrine. We also fi…
Guest Editorial
The Dutch Language in Early Modern Norfolk: A Social History
In the early modern period thousands of people whose mother tongue was Dutch came to the English county of Norfolk. Whilst some of them only stayed for a short while, others settled and established communities in the towns of King’s Lynn, Thetford, and Great Yarmouth and the city of Norwich. Whilst the communities in the first two lasted only for a short period, those in Yarmouth and Norwich lasted for over one hundred years. In this article I co…
The Role of London and Other English Cities in the Development of Early Modern Dutch Language and Literature
In accounts of the emergence of a standard language, linguists often adopt what Richard J. Watts terms a ‘tunnel view’ of language, in which those features of a language’s history which do not contribute to the story of the standard language are marginalized or even ignored. In this article, I argue that those who write general histories of Dutch language and literature are sometimes guilty of adopting this ‘tunnel view’. I take the case of Londo…
Trilingualism in early modern Norwich
The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of employing archival sources in order to identify when and to what extent a language was used during a particular period in history. It takes as an example Trudgill’s claim that from about 1565, as a result of immigration by Dutch and French speakers from the Low Countries, Norwich was a trilingual city for as much as two hundred years. After a brief description of multilingualism in early …
Recording the History of Dutch in Japan
In general histories of the Dutch language, little or no attention is paid to the use of the language in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Furthermore, where attention is given, we find a number of factual inaccuracies. In this article, I begin by providing a brief history of the Dutch language in Japan for those readers unfamiliar with this subject. Consideration is then given to three areas in which general histories of Du…
Dutch in Seventeenth-Century Japan: A Social History
The first Dutch ship arrived in Japan in 1600. In the next two and a half centuries, some 800 Dutch ships would follow and for most of this period the Dutch were the only Western nation permitted to trade with the Japanese. This article provides a social history of the Dutch language during the first hundred years of the Dutch presence in Japan. Although the focus of this use was Western Kyushu, where the Dutch had trading posts at Hirado and the…
Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
The Reception of Classical Authors in Taiwan
Revisions to the Siraya lexicon based on the original Utrecht Manuscript: A case study in source data
Linguistic historiography analyzes how linguistic knowledge has been acquired, stored, used and diffused. This article examines what can happen if linguists rely on copies of source data rather than the source data itself. It takes as a case study linguistic data from Siraya, a now-extinct Formosan language. Documents compiled in the seventeenth century by Dutch missionaries in Taiwan form a significant source of data for Siraya. One such documen…
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds, Dominic Sachsenmaier (2020)
Review of: Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds , Dominic Sachsenmaier (2020) New York: Columbia University Press, 268 pp., ISBN 978-0-23118-753-4, p/bk, $26.00
Religious Beliefs in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’
There are various approaches to building a picture of the ‘spiritual’ entities in which indigenous Formosans believed in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’. This article does so by studying what sources written in the seventeenth century tell us about them. One source was written by a Chinese observer, and others by two groups of Europeans: Dutch East India Company employees and Spanish missionaries. Thus, one methodological issue is that these authors looked a…
Two Approaches by Dutch Missionaries to Communicating the Gospel in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan
Between 1624 and 1662, the Dutch East India Company operated a trading post in Taiwan. It employed missionaries who attempted to convert indigenous Formosans to Reformed Christianity by compiling texts in the Formosan language, Siraya. This article analyzes texts compiled in this language to establish how the Dutch missionaries used them to communicate the Gospel. This analysis shows that they adopted two distinct approaches to compiling texts in…
Dutch in Eighteenth-Century Japan
In the first hundred years of the Dutch presence in Japan, the Dutch language was used by Dutch, other Europeans and Japanese in a range of social domains. This article considers how Dutch functioned in Japan in the following hundred years, i.e. c. 1700–1800. After discussing who knew Dutch in Japan, it examines the use of the language not by social domain, but rather by the linguistic processes that resulted from contact between Dutch and other …
Missionary linguistics in the East Indies in the seventeenth century
In recent years, there has been increased academic interest in missionary linguistics. However, whereas much has been written on Spanish missionary linguistics, above all in the Americas, relatively little has been published on Dutch missionary linguistics. This article aims to address this situation by analyzing the texts written in Malay by Dutch missionary linguists in the seventeenth century in the East Indies, now Indonesia. It begins by pro…
Food Culture in Precolonial Taiwan
Central to food culture are food practices that encompass any activity in which food is involved. Furthermore, food culture studies analyse the many meanings generated by these practices. This article explores food culture in precolonial Taiwan. It charts the meanings generated by the food practices of the Siraya, a Formosan ethnic group who lived in southwest Taiwan and had intensive contact with Dutch East India Company colonisers and an array …
The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt
A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic. A recent study by Silke Muylaert (2020) on migrant churches in England engages with this trend. One church that Muylaert analyses is the Flemish church in Norw…
The Dutch Language in the Muslim World (1600-1800)
There was much contact between the Dutch Republic and Muslim world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) (1602-1799) undertook extensive commercial activity in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago, where many Muslims lived. The VOC established trading posts in Bengal, across the Indian sub-continent, in Persia, the Yemen, and at its headquarters in the East Indies at Batavia. Whilst people in these…
Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices
Money in the Norwich Stranger communities, 1565–1615
For several hundred years after the mid-sixteenth century, there were two exile or Stranger communities in Norwich, many of whose members were Calvinists who worked in the textile trade. This article investigates three aspects of the financial activities of these exiles: the types of coins they used; how they financed their commercial activities; and how financial disputes between Strangers were resolved, above all by officials known as Politic M…
Language Revitalisation Using Historical Texts: The Case of Siraya
To achieve national recognition, Plains Indigenous people (aka Pingpu) in Taiwan need an ethnolect. The language of one Plains Indigenous group, the Siraya, was extinct for most of the twentieth century. However, one advantage they have over other Plains Indigenous groups seeking national recognition is that much of their language was written down by Dutch missionaries in the seventeenth century with the assistance of their Siraya forefathers. Th…
Flemish and Walloon exile communities in sixteenth-century Norwich: A case study of local and national responses to large-scale migration from the Low Countries
In 1565, the Mayor of Norwich, Thomas Sotherton, proposed to his fellow aldermen that the city invite thirty master textile workers from the Low Countries and their households to Norwich to revive its flagging economy. Letters patent were issued by Queen Elizabeth and on 1 June 1566, Sotherton put his seal on an order naming the thirty masters. They would form the basis of two exile communities in Norwich, one Flemish and one Walloon. This articl…
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