Susan Broomhall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1752756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Broomhall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Broomhall |
| SIGNATURE | BROOMHALL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6018-5743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cultivating Gender Representations and Resource Management in Early Twentieth-Century Australia
Catherine de' Medici and the Forest of Orleans: Queenly Participation in Early Modern French Forest Management
This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of the Duchy of Orleans, in 1582, dedicated to Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France and mother of the king, H…
A Widow’s Vengeance after the Wars of Religion: Gender and Justice in Renaissance France , by Tom Hamilton
Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan
This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications. These texts, about a convert's journey to diverse netherworlds, made affective experiences central to spiritual perception, and to Jesuit interpretation of faith. They held impor…
Early Modern Histories of Fire on the Australian Continent
This essay explores early modern European records of fire behaviours on the Australian continent. In particular, it analyses the perspectives provided in hitherto relatively unexplored records of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and situates these in relation to contemporary English and later French and British accounts of fire practices. It argues that knowledge, use and textual record of fire practices constituted a key form of power for Euro…
Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution
This paper explores the construction of the identities of Philippe Curtius and his protégé Marie Grosholtz, known as Madame Tussaud, as providers of medical and health services, body workers, and entrepreneurs in key works that charted their experiences during the volatile period of the French Revolution. As purveyors of entertainment that derived its attraction from perceived close rendering of the likenesses of noteworthy individuals, modellers…
(Re)visiones: El poder transformador de las pasiones en el archivo americano
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…
The rise of affectivism
Telling objects: Contextualizing the role of the consort in early modern Europe
Telling objects: contextualizing the role of the consort in early modern Europe." The Seventeenth Century, 35(1), pp. 136–137
Early Modern Emotions and Global Encounter as Gender History: The Dutch East India Company in Korea
The author discusses the role of emotions in historical research. She mentions the account of the shipwreck of a Dutch East India Company vessel in Korea by bookkeeper Hendrik Hamel, the incorporation of emotions in Hamel's report and other documents, and the role of gender in the perception of Korea
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality, written by Lam, Ling Hong
Frogs and Feeling Communities: A Study in History of Emotions and Environmental History
This article offers an overview of some approaches from the history of emotions that environmental historians could employ in order to sharpen engagement with emotion, and applies some of these approaches to a long history of human-frog interactions, by way of example. We propose that emotions have played a key role in the constitution of human communities, as well as enabling or inhibiting particular kinds of human thoughts and actions in relati…
Dirk Hartog’s Sea Chest: Objects and Emotions Through History
This chapter charts the affective power and significance that Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) objects have held from the seventeenth century to the present, because of their physical form and their location and assemblage with other objects on the Australian coast. The chapter explores how objects and people not only operate in relation to each other, but also in particular spaces and in specific historical con…
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France
Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and understanding of publication. Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript cir…
Performances of Entangled Emotions and Beliefs: French and Spanish Cultural Transformations on the Sixteenth-Century Florida Peninsula
This essay explores how interpretations and practices of entangled emotions and beliefs were critical to European engagement with Florida during the mid-sixteenth century. It analyses emotional performances of religious, racial and cultural beliefs that lay at the heart of colonising activities of both the French and Spanish, articulated in affective forms such as facial expression, gestures, sexual practices and violent acts, and rhetorically in…
Home Fire Safety Checks in New South Wales: An economic evaluation of the pilot program
Traumatic events such as fire can result in fatality, injury, and loss of property; even a minor fire can interrupt the normal flow of people’s lives. During the years 2009–2013, urban and regional New South Wales (NSW) experienced an annual average of 4329 residential structural fires with 593 injuries and 22 fatalities at an annual cost of $656 million dollars. In 2014, Fire and Rescue NSW piloted a program called Home Fire Safety Checks (HFSC)…
Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600–1700
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Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder
This chapter explores how schools managed the logistics of boys and girls in classrooms, schoolyards, and dorms, and how they dealt with their behaviour, interactions, and emotions. The oldest preserved code of order of the Netherlands was written at the end of the fourteenth century for the school located next to the Church of St Lebuinus in Deventer. School codes or orders also give a good idea of the normal makeup of both school days and the '…
Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction
Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Contents: Preface Introduction, Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall Part 1 Reading Communities in History: Real and imagined communities in the lives of women in 17th-century Ireland: identity and gender, Anne Laurence The abuse of history? Identity politics, disordered identity and the 'really real' in French cases of demonic possession, Sarah Ferber. Part 2 Domestic Polities: 'In myn own house': the troubled connections between servant marriag…
Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others
Face-making: Emotional and gendered meanings in Chinese clay portraits of Danish Asiatic Company men
© 2016 the Historical Associations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.This article explores emotional and gendered meanings of a series of Chinese clay portrait figures produced in Guangzhou during the 18th century for men associated with the Danish Asiatic Company. It investigates the presentation of emotions and corporate masculine hierarchies in these individual full-length and bust portraits, which combined emotional ideas and re…
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…
Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel
Journal Article Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel Get access Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel . By Philip Grace. Farnham : Ashgate . 2015 . x + 186 pp. £65.00 (hardback). Susan Broomhall Susan Broomhall The University of Western Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 34,…
The rise of affectivism
Australian universities, generic skills and lifelong learning
The concept of lifelong learning implies a cycle where the learner contributes prior learning into a new learning environment and sees that learning upgraded. In recent years, a range of internal and external pressures have encouraged Australian universities to identify the meta or generic skills embedded in tertiary study. Using a content analysis of relevant university policy documents, this study assesses how the Australian higher education se…
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France
Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and understanding of publication. Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript cir…
Home Fire Safety Checks in New South Wales: An economic evaluation of the pilot program
Traumatic events such as fire can result in fatality, injury, and loss of property; even a minor fire can interrupt the normal flow of people’s lives. During the years 2009–2013, urban and regional New South Wales (NSW) experienced an annual average of 4329 residential structural fires with 593 injuries and 22 fatalities at an annual cost of $656 million dollars. In 2014, Fire and Rescue NSW piloted a program called Home Fire Safety Checks (HFSC)…
My daughter, my dear’: The correspondence of Catherine de Médicis and Elisabeth de Valois
This article explores the evolving relationship between Catherine de Médicis and her daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, as the latter became Queen of Spain. The particular dynamics of their changing political roles juxtaposed with their relative status within the Valois familial hierarchy can be analysed through the extant correspondence that became their main conduit for communication after Elisabeth's marriage and removal to Spain. This corresponde…
Women's Little Secrets: Defining the Boundaries of Reproductive Knowledge in Sixteenth-century France: Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Essay Competition Winner, 1999
Although there has been much recent work on the contribution of midwives to early modern medical practice, there has been less investigation of the participation of other women outside of the corporative or professional medical arena. This article seeks to examine how élite women were involved in medical discussion of reproduction, using the sixteenth-century correspondence surrounding the reproductive health of Elisabeth de Valois, Queen of Spai…
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…
Interpreting place and past in narratives of Dutch heritage tourism
This essay examines the role of place in creating and supporting heritage tourism narratives, through a case study of the Netherlands. Focusing on late medieval and especially early modern cities including Amsterdam, Gouda, Leiden and Haarlem, it explores the significance of place to the kinds of historic narratives that can be told, and analyses the ways in which tourism providers ask tourists to utilise place as evidence for interpretations of …
In the Name of the Father: Conceptualizing Pater Familias in the Letters of William the Silent's Children
For much of their childhood and adult life, the twelve surviving children of William the Silent were separated linguistically and geographically. Many of the children forged important relationships with male primary carers who were not their biological parents. This paper explores the children's correspondence with their biological father William and with paternal figures to understand competing forms of familial authority among William's childre…
Frogs and Feeling Communities: A Study in History of Emotions and Environmental History
This article offers an overview of some approaches from the history of emotions that environmental historians could employ in order to sharpen engagement with emotion, and applies some of these approaches to a long history of human-frog interactions, by way of example. We propose that emotions have played a key role in the constitution of human communities, as well as enabling or inhibiting particular kinds of human thoughts and actions in relati…
Face-making: Emotional and gendered meanings in Chinese clay portraits of Danish Asiatic Company men
© 2016 the Historical Associations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.This article explores emotional and gendered meanings of a series of Chinese clay portrait figures produced in Guangzhou during the 18th century for men associated with the Danish Asiatic Company. It investigates the presentation of emotions and corporate masculine hierarchies in these individual full-length and bust portraits, which combined emotional ideas and re…
Devoted Politics: Jesuits and Elite Catholic Women at the Later Sixteenth-century Valois Court
This essay analyses how elite women at the sixteenth-century French court interacted with the Jesuits, in the context of the spiritual and political ambitions of all participants. Focusing particularly on the dynamic relationship between Catherine de Medici and the Jesuits, contextualized by the experiences of other elite women and men, it explores the period from the 1560s to the end of the 1580s during which Catherine occupied a powerful role a…
Quite indifferent to these things”: The Role of Emotions and Conversion in the D utch E ast I ndia C ompany's Interactions with the S outh L ands
This article situates the engagement of the D utch E ast I ndia C ompany (the V ereenigde O ostindische C ompagnie, or VOC ) with the S outh L ands in the context of diverse understandings of the missionary endeavour within the C ompany in the first half of the seventeenth century. In that light, it argues that both emotions and the idea of evangelising were critical to the objectives and experiences of the VOC in regards to the S outh L ands. Po…
Emotional Encounters: Indigenous Peoples in the Dutch East India Company's Interactions with the South Lands
This article analyses the role of emotions in Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) encounters with local indigenous peoples in the region, as they sought the Great South Land during the seventeenth century. It seeks to understand how affective and communication practices in the Company shaped attempts at establishing trading relations on the ground. The nature of the relationships that the VOC could have with local…
Teaching ethics beyond the Academy: Educational tourism, lifelong learning and phronesis
Universities traditionally construct ethical, as well as educational goals in their mission, which they attempt to promote not only through their graduates, but sometimes directly to the wider community. This study explores how targeting lifelong learners through the medium of educational tourism might be one such way in which universities can impart moral and ethical lessons, through a pedagogical construction based on the Aristotelian notion of…
Finding Rembrandt? Place, History, Experience and the Individual
This essay focuses on Rembrandt van Rijn in order to examine how the character of a historic individual can be understood through physical and imagined places, across tourist literature and academic scholarship. The materials produced for the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, including tourist brochures, local signage and displays, exhibition notes as well as scholarly studies, provide the source texts for the analysis. Across these…
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…
"In my Opinion": Charlotte de Minut and Female Political Discussion in Print in Sixteenth-Century France
Women's Little Secrets: Defining the Boundaries of Reproductive Knowledge in Sixteenth-century France: Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Essay Competition Winner, 1999
Although there has been much recent work on the contribution of midwives to early modern medical practice, there has been less investigation of the participation of other women outside of the corporative or professional medical arena. This article seeks to examine how élite women were involved in medical discussion of reproduction, using the sixteenth-century correspondence surrounding the reproductive health of Elisabeth de Valois, Queen of Spai…
Poverty, Gender and Incarceration in Sixteenth-Century Paris
The experience of prison remains a relatively little-studied aspect of late-medieval and early-modern criminalization of the activities of the poor. This study examines how poverty and gender influenced incarceration practices, treatment and release in sixteenth-century Paris. A study of the archives of the ecclesiastical gaol at Saint-Germain-des-Prés from 1537 to 1579 suggests that both poverty and gender affected the crimes for which women and…
Identity and Life Narratives of the Poor in Later Sixteenth-Century Tours
This essay examines autobiographical moments in supplicant claims for poor relief in Tours during the 1580s. Appealing for assistance required the poor to construct explanations for their present impoverished circumstances. Some supplicant petitions offer historians opportunities to explore self-representation and life narratives by a social group that was largely illiterate and whose experiences are underrepresented in the written records. This …
Le Verger fertile des vertus. Composé par defuncte Madame du Verger augmenté et amplifié par Philippe du Verger sa fille, femme d'un Procureur de la Cour
110/ Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme Le Quart Livre, gagne sa vie en se laissant battre.L'introduction se termine par un examen de l'esprit, du style et du langage.Il y est expliqué, entre autres, pourquoi la longueur de La Néphélococugie double celle de l'original, et comment les exemples mythologiques dépassent en nombre ceux des Oiseaux.Abondantes, les notes de bas de page permettent de saisir dans le détail le processus d…
Understanding Household Limitation Strategies among the Sixteenth-Century Urban Poor in France
This essay explores what we can learn about the household limitation behaviour and strategies of those members of sixteenth-century French society who numbered among the mass of the poor. In particular, it focuses on the evidence produced by urban poor relief councils and hospitals, as they recorded the circumstances of the poverty-stricken clientele for their administrative records, and presents some preliminary findings. Although contraceptive …
Humanism and Medicine: A Match Made in Heaven
The symposium which gave rise to roughly half the papers in this collection set out to explore the complex, sometimes troubled, relationship between humanism and medicine from the fourteenth to the
Australian universities, generic skills and lifelong learning
The concept of lifelong learning implies a cycle where the learner contributes prior learning into a new learning environment and sees that learning upgraded. In recent years, a range of internal and external pressures have encouraged Australian universities to identify the meta or generic skills embedded in tertiary study. Using a content analysis of relevant university policy documents, this study assesses how the Australian higher education se…
In the Name of the Father: Conceptualizing Pater Familias in the Letters of William the Silent's Children
For much of their childhood and adult life, the twelve surviving children of William the Silent were separated linguistically and geographically. Many of the children forged important relationships with male primary carers who were not their biological parents. This paper explores the children's correspondence with their biological father William and with paternal figures to understand competing forms of familial authority among William's childre…
Finding Rembrandt? Place, History, Experience and the Individual
This essay focuses on Rembrandt van Rijn in order to examine how the character of a historic individual can be understood through physical and imagined places, across tourist literature and academic scholarship. The materials produced for the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, including tourist brochures, local signage and displays, exhibition notes as well as scholarly studies, provide the source texts for the analysis. Across these…
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…
Patricia Marcia Crawford (1941-2009)
Born in North Sydney on 31 January 1941 to Enid Marcia Clarke, Trish's early life was marked by the absence of her father, William James Clarke, who worked for the British India Company before beco
Representing Female Labour at the Dawn of the Dutch Golden Age: Isaac Claesz. Van Swanenburg'S Old and New Trades ( c .1594– c .1612)
This article examines the representation of women's labour in the series of paintings by Isaac Claesz. van Swanenburg known as the Old and New Trades (c.1594–c.1612). Earlier studies have focused upon van Swanenburg's realistic depiction of the Leiden textiles trade but had little to say about his innovative representation of women at work. This article contends that van Swanenburg presents women alongside men as economic and moral contributors t…
Taking on the World
The Shortest History of Europe , by John Hirst (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009, 154pp, $24.95pb). Publisher’s website: www.penguin.com.au/products/9781863954396/shortest-history-europe
Interpreting place and past in narratives of Dutch heritage tourism
This essay examines the role of place in creating and supporting heritage tourism narratives, through a case study of the Netherlands. Focusing on late medieval and especially early modern cities including Amsterdam, Gouda, Leiden and Haarlem, it explores the significance of place to the kinds of historic narratives that can be told, and analyses the ways in which tourism providers ask tourists to utilise place as evidence for interpretations of …
Teaching ethics beyond the Academy: Educational tourism, lifelong learning and phronesis
Universities traditionally construct ethical, as well as educational goals in their mission, which they attempt to promote not only through their graduates, but sometimes directly to the wider community. This study explores how targeting lifelong learners through the medium of educational tourism might be one such way in which universities can impart moral and ethical lessons, through a pedagogical construction based on the Aristotelian notion of…
A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010
Introduction, David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall 1. The Paternal Government of Men: The Self-Image and Action of the Paris Police in the Eighteenth Century? David Garrioch 2. 'A Species of Civil Soldier': Masculinity, Policing and Military in 1780s England, Matthew McCormack 3. Making Men: Media, Magistrates and the Representation of Masculinity in Scottish Police Courts, 1800-1835, Susan Broomhall and David G. Barrie 4. Becoming Policemen in Ni…
La Sante de Louis XIV: Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil
Journal Article La Santé de Louis XIV: Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil Get access La Santé de Louis XIV: Une biohistoire du Roi-Soleil. By Stanis Perez. Seyssel: Champ Vallon. 2007. 416 pp. ₤26.00. ISBN: 9 782876 734708. Susan Broomhall Susan Broomhall The University of Western Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 404–405, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Public men, private interests: The origins, structure and practice of police courts in Scotland, c.1800–1833
This article examines how civic tensions and the rise to prominence of a new class of businessmen contributed to the evolution of police courts in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1833. It argues that men of property intertwined civic imperatives with their own moral and economic interests in order to effect reform and defend their position, status and influence. It also contends that police courts were important institutions in reflecting and exposing …
Reasons and identities to remember: Composing personal accounts of religious violence in sixteenth-century France
Journal Article Reasons and identities to remember: composing personal accounts of religious violence in sixteenth-century France Get access Susan Broomhall Susan Broomhall * * Research for this article was made possible through an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. The author is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. She is grateful for the insightful feedback of the reviewers and editors. She may be contacted at …
Emotional Encounters: Indigenous Peoples in the Dutch East India Company's Interactions with the South Lands
This article analyses the role of emotions in Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) encounters with local indigenous peoples in the region, as they sought the Great South Land during the seventeenth century. It seeks to understand how affective and communication practices in the Company shaped attempts at establishing trading relations on the ground. The nature of the relationships that the VOC could have with local…
Philippa (Pip) Maddern (1952–2014)
Margaret of Parma: A Life
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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…
Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800
Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 investigates how emotions were conceptualised and practised in the medieval and early modern period, as they ordered systems of thought and practice—from philosophy and theology, music and literature, to science and medicine. Analysing discursive, psychic and bodily dimensions of emotions as they were experienced, performed and narrated, authors explore how emotions were understood to interact with more abst…
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