Jacqueline Van Gent
Biographic Data
| ID | 1708460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacqueline Van Gent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacqueline |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Gent |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GENT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Office of Education |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6454-9292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves
This article explores the complex interactions of gender with the materiality of the processes of becoming and being a glove in the early modern period. Through an investigation of gloves, glove parts, and their ephemeral presentation (through leather, embroidery, and perfume), we argue that gender and materiality act in dialogic ways to produce power relations, and that considerations of gender, power, and materiality are central to our understa…
Rethinking savagery: Slavery experiences and the role of emotions in Oldendorp’s mission ethnography
By the late 18th century, the Moravian mission project had grown into a global enterprise. Moravian missionaries’ personal and emotional engagements with the people they sought to convert impacted not only on their understanding of Christianity, but also caused them to rethink the nature of civilization and humanity in light of their frontier experiences. In this article I discuss the construction of ‘savagery’ in the mission ethnography of C. G.…
Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others
Linnaeus’ tea cup: Masculinities, affective networks and Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Sweden
In 18th-century Sweden, Chinese porcelain, and in particular armorial services, became one of the most desirable material markers of the social status of the elite and was consciously used to promote dynastic or personal power and aspirations. This article discusses social, affective and gendered relations that developed around acquisition, ordering and display of armorial porcelain and the resulting nexus between porcelain traded by the Swedish …
Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic beha…
The Burden of Love: M oravian Conversions and Emotions in Eighteenth‐Century Labrador
The M oravian C hurch was a highly successful Protestant mission society which developed very specific emotional registers to create an imagined community across very diverse cultures. This article discusses the social regulation of emotions and the indigenous responses to a M oravian emotional style as part of the conversion process on M oravian missions in the eighteenth century. One of the core elements of M oravian spiritual conversion and id…
Introduction: Emotions and Conversion
S arah and Her Sisters: Letters, Emotions, and Colonial Identities in the Early Modern A tlantic World
This article uses letters by indigenous converts to explore how early modern M oravian missions in the A tlantic imagined themselves as emotional communities. M oravian missions were the most successful P rotestant mission enterprise in the A tlantic and established numerous missions across several empires and vastly different indigenous cultures. By comparing the letters from indigenous converts across the A tlantic rim ( N orth A merica, C arib…
Converted Relationships: Re-negotiating Family Status after Religious Conversion in the Nassau Dynasty
This essay examines four case studies from the Nassau dynasty in the early modern period to explore strategies that converts used to negotiate understanding from their family members for their religious choices and to re-define their relationships and status as members of the dynasty. It studies the strategies and words used by male and female members of the dynasty, Flandrine of Nassau (1579–1640), Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Hadamar (1590–1653), Jo…
Current Trends in Historical Witchcraft Studies
Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. Drawing on eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials, which are exceptionally detailed, these notions of embodiment and selfhood are explored in dep…
Corresponding Affections: Emotional Exchange Among Siblings in the Nassau Family
This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the children of William the Silent, the leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from extensive familial correspondence, it asks how the language of emotions could constitute forms of power within the family, by analyzing how actions and expressions of emotion were presented, discussed, and interpreted in epistolary form, to whom, and with what intentio…
Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission
This paper argues that the interaction between Lutheran missionaries and Arrernte people at Hermannsburg mission was shaped by different body practices and discourses. Notions of sickness, causation and healing were central to the ideas of the body. Both missionaries and Arrernte paid attention to these somatic states in their social interactions. Lutherans attempted to reinforce an individualistic notion of the body, while Arrernte people contin…
Voraussetzungen und Folgen eines Kolonialmassakers: Margaret Wieners Studien zu Bali als Beispiel anthropologischer Geschichtsschreibung
Generational religious change among the Arrernte at Hermannsburg, central Australia
This paper traces the introduction of Christian ideas to the Arrernte at Hermannsburg and how Arrernte attitudes towards Christianity changed over a generation from the 1890s to the 1920s. It compares the first generation of Arrernte to encounter Christianity with their children's generation, a number of whom became Christian evangelists. Under the guidance of these evangelists many Arrernte were baptised. We consider why these evangelists succee…
Anna Haebich, Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
Anna Haebich, Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission
This paper argues that the interaction between Lutheran missionaries and Arrernte people at Hermannsburg mission was shaped by different body practices and discourses. Notions of sickness, causation and healing were central to the ideas of the body. Both missionaries and Arrernte paid attention to these somatic states in their social interactions. Lutherans attempted to reinforce an individualistic notion of the body, while Arrernte people contin…
Linnaeus’ tea cup: Masculinities, affective networks and Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Sweden
In 18th-century Sweden, Chinese porcelain, and in particular armorial services, became one of the most desirable material markers of the social status of the elite and was consciously used to promote dynastic or personal power and aspirations. This article discusses social, affective and gendered relations that developed around acquisition, ordering and display of armorial porcelain and the resulting nexus between porcelain traded by the Swedish …
S arah and Her Sisters: Letters, Emotions, and Colonial Identities in the Early Modern A tlantic World
This article uses letters by indigenous converts to explore how early modern M oravian missions in the A tlantic imagined themselves as emotional communities. M oravian missions were the most successful P rotestant mission enterprise in the A tlantic and established numerous missions across several empires and vastly different indigenous cultures. By comparing the letters from indigenous converts across the A tlantic rim ( N orth A merica, C arib…
Rethinking savagery: Slavery experiences and the role of emotions in Oldendorp’s mission ethnography
By the late 18th century, the Moravian mission project had grown into a global enterprise. Moravian missionaries’ personal and emotional engagements with the people they sought to convert impacted not only on their understanding of Christianity, but also caused them to rethink the nature of civilization and humanity in light of their frontier experiences. In this article I discuss the construction of ‘savagery’ in the mission ethnography of C. G.…
Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic beha…
Current Trends in Historical Witchcraft Studies
Corresponding Affections: Emotional Exchange Among Siblings in the Nassau Family
This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the children of William the Silent, the leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from extensive familial correspondence, it asks how the language of emotions could constitute forms of power within the family, by analyzing how actions and expressions of emotion were presented, discussed, and interpreted in epistolary form, to whom, and with what intentio…
Anna Haebich, Broken Circles. Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000
Generational religious change among the Arrernte at Hermannsburg, central Australia
This paper traces the introduction of Christian ideas to the Arrernte at Hermannsburg and how Arrernte attitudes towards Christianity changed over a generation from the 1890s to the 1920s. It compares the first generation of Arrernte to encounter Christianity with their children's generation, a number of whom became Christian evangelists. Under the guidance of these evangelists many Arrernte were baptised. We consider why these evangelists succee…
Changing Concepts of Embodiment and Illness among the Western Arrernte at Hermannsburg Mission
This paper argues that the interaction between Lutheran missionaries and Arrernte people at Hermannsburg mission was shaped by different body practices and discourses. Notions of sickness, causation and healing were central to the ideas of the body. Both missionaries and Arrernte paid attention to these somatic states in their social interactions. Lutherans attempted to reinforce an individualistic notion of the body, while Arrernte people contin…
Voraussetzungen und Folgen eines Kolonialmassakers: Margaret Wieners Studien zu Bali als Beispiel anthropologischer Geschichtsschreibung
Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. Drawing on eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials, which are exceptionally detailed, these notions of embodiment and selfhood are explored in dep…
Corresponding Affections: Emotional Exchange Among Siblings in the Nassau Family
This article examines the nature of emotional exchange among the siblings who were the children of William the Silent, the leader of the nascent Dutch Republic. Using evidence from extensive familial correspondence, it asks how the language of emotions could constitute forms of power within the family, by analyzing how actions and expressions of emotion were presented, discussed, and interpreted in epistolary form, to whom, and with what intentio…
Current Trends in Historical Witchcraft Studies
S arah and Her Sisters: Letters, Emotions, and Colonial Identities in the Early Modern A tlantic World
This article uses letters by indigenous converts to explore how early modern M oravian missions in the A tlantic imagined themselves as emotional communities. M oravian missions were the most successful P rotestant mission enterprise in the A tlantic and established numerous missions across several empires and vastly different indigenous cultures. By comparing the letters from indigenous converts across the A tlantic rim ( N orth A merica, C arib…
Converted Relationships: Re-negotiating Family Status after Religious Conversion in the Nassau Dynasty
This essay examines four case studies from the Nassau dynasty in the early modern period to explore strategies that converts used to negotiate understanding from their family members for their religious choices and to re-define their relationships and status as members of the dynasty. It studies the strategies and words used by male and female members of the dynasty, Flandrine of Nassau (1579–1640), Johann Ludwig of Nassau-Hadamar (1590–1653), Jo…
The Burden of Love: M oravian Conversions and Emotions in Eighteenth‐Century Labrador
The M oravian C hurch was a highly successful Protestant mission society which developed very specific emotional registers to create an imagined community across very diverse cultures. This article discusses the social regulation of emotions and the indigenous responses to a M oravian emotional style as part of the conversion process on M oravian missions in the eighteenth century. One of the core elements of M oravian spiritual conversion and id…
Introduction: Emotions and Conversion
Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others
Linnaeus’ tea cup: Masculinities, affective networks and Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Sweden
In 18th-century Sweden, Chinese porcelain, and in particular armorial services, became one of the most desirable material markers of the social status of the elite and was consciously used to promote dynastic or personal power and aspirations. This article discusses social, affective and gendered relations that developed around acquisition, ordering and display of armorial porcelain and the resulting nexus between porcelain traded by the Swedish …
Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic beha…
Rethinking savagery: Slavery experiences and the role of emotions in Oldendorp’s mission ethnography
By the late 18th century, the Moravian mission project had grown into a global enterprise. Moravian missionaries’ personal and emotional engagements with the people they sought to convert impacted not only on their understanding of Christianity, but also caused them to rethink the nature of civilization and humanity in light of their frontier experiences. In this article I discuss the construction of ‘savagery’ in the mission ethnography of C. G.…
Gender and Materiality in Early Modern English Gloves
This article explores the complex interactions of gender with the materiality of the processes of becoming and being a glove in the early modern period. Through an investigation of gloves, glove parts, and their ephemeral presentation (through leather, embroidery, and perfume), we argue that gender and materiality act in dialogic ways to produce power relations, and that considerations of gender, power, and materiality are central to our understa…
History (13 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (5 works)