Judith Pollmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Pollmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollmann |
| SIGNATURE | POLLMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-3784-0019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries
Early modern local chronicles are a largely neglected, yet stable genre of texts that can be used for comparative research over time and space. The NWO-funded research project Chronicling Novelty (2018–24) investigated the reception of new media and new knowledge among early modern chroniclers in the Low Countries. For this purpose, we created a digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles from the period 1500–1850. This article presents the…
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
This book is an introduction into the way in which Europeans on the Continent and in the British Isles practised memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. In early modern Europe the past served as a main frame of moral, political, legal, religious, and social reference for people of all walks of life. Because it mattered so much, it was also hotly contested, and subject to constant reinvention. Building on both existing studies and new…
Imagining Communities
Scholars of nationalism have argued that any national consciousness before 1800 was the province of small elites, who had little interest in engaging subjects in a national project, and lacked the technologies to do so. Highlighting the wide range of media available to early modern communities, this chapter argues that forms of national memory spread through the lively practice of local memory. Local memory practices, initially mostly associated …
Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe
From the late Middle Ages until well into the nineteenth century, a remarkable number of middle-class men across Europe were chronicling current events in their communities and beyond, thus creating a hybrid type of noninstitutional archive that was both local and personal. Such texts were rarely printed in the lifetimes of their authors, but they circulated in the localities and were frequently read and continued by others. Some places had a par…
Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory
most scholars who study memory believe that people in different cultures have different ways of remembering. this assumption implies that it should be possible to write a history of memory. outlines of such a history can be found in various modern theories of memory, which often contain a macro-historical component. Jacques le Goff distinguished five phases in the history of memory in the West, in which 'free, creative and vital' memory over time…
Memory before Modernity
Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case s…
Of Living Legends and Authentic Tales
Folklore experts have shown that for a legend to be remembered it is important that it is historicised. Focusing on three case-studies from early modern Germany and the Netherlands, this article explores how the historicisation of mythical narratives operated in early modern Europe, and argues that memory practices played a crucial role in the interplay between myth and history. The application of new criteria for historical evidence did not resu…
Met grootvaders bloed bezegeld. Over religie en herinneringscultuur in de zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlanden
Memories of events in the recent past played an important role in the way in which seventeenth-century inhabitants of the Low Countries experienced their faith. In the Dutch Republic, all denominations framed their identity around tales of past suffering. Yet whereas in Catholic representations of the past in the Habsburg Netherlands the victory over heresy took center stage, religious pluralism in the Republic prevented the emergence of a collec…
Memory before Modernity
Cover illustration: Memorial tablet in the façade of the so-called 'Spanish House' in the Holland town of Naarden, located on the spot of the former town hall. in 1572 during the dutch Revolt, 700 men from Naarden were gathered here and killed by Habsburg troops.The town hall was burnt down and rebuilt in 1615.(Photo Ralf Akemann
Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520‐1635
Mining the unusually rich range of diaries, memoirs, and poems written by Catholics in the 16th-century Low Countries, Judith Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and political change in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens.
Networks, Regions and Nations
Internationalisering en de Nederlandse Opstand
Internationalising The Dutch RevoltAt around 1960 the interpretations of the Dutch Revolt that were propounded in ‘grand narratives’ of sixteenth-century Europe, differed considerably from those on offer in the ‘national’ historiography of the Revolt. That this was to change drastically over the following five decades, was only partly due to changes in Dutch historiography. Most impulses to ‘internationalise’ interpretations of the Dutch Revolt c…
"Each Should Tend His Own Garden"
The schoolmistress and best-selling poet Anna Bijns was one of the few laypeople in the sixteenth-century Netherlands who was prepared publicly to fight for the Catholic cause. This article contends that Bijns's work, exceptional as it was, reflects a "moral" understanding of the problem of heresy that was not unique to her, but that exemplified the way in which many clerics responded to the threat of Protestantism. They equated heresy with sin, …
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands
Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown, the creation of the Dutch R…
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions
Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands
Journal Article Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands: Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560 –1585 Get access Judith Pollmann Judith Pollmann Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Leiden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 83–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj003 Published: 01 February 2006
Embodied Belief
1Somerville College, Oxford Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History Willem Frijhoff Hilversum Uitgeverij Verloren 2002 300 Eur 26
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age
Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Nethe…
Off the Record
Most recent studies of Calvinist church discipline have used consistory records to attempt to quantify the intensity and the focus of early modern Reformed discipline. They do so on the assumption that consistory records form a representative record of disciplinary activity. This article questions that assumption. Using the journal of an Utrecht elder from the 1620s, it demonstrates, first, that his Reformed church kept no record at all of about …
Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia
Journal Article Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740–1745, Joris van Eijnatten Get access Judith Pollmann Judith Pollmann Somerville College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 735–736, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.735 Published: 01 June 2001
Women and Religion in the Dutch Golden Age
Although scholars have been aware for some time that women far out-numbered men in the Dutch Reformed Church of the Golden Age, it has proved difficult to explain why this was the case. By gaining a better understanding of which women joined the Churches, we may also get a better sense of why they did so. An analysis of the membership of the Utrecht Reformed Church in the early 1620s shows that two groups were over-represented, older unmarried wo…
Memory before Modernity
Cover illustration: Memorial tablet in the façade of the so-called 'Spanish House' in the Holland town of Naarden, located on the spot of the former town hall. in 1572 during the dutch Revolt, 700 men from Naarden were gathered here and killed by Habsburg troops.The town hall was burnt down and rebuilt in 1615.(Photo Ralf Akemann
Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe
From the late Middle Ages until well into the nineteenth century, a remarkable number of middle-class men across Europe were chronicling current events in their communities and beyond, thus creating a hybrid type of noninstitutional archive that was both local and personal. Such texts were rarely printed in the lifetimes of their authors, but they circulated in the localities and were frequently read and continued by others. Some places had a par…
Networks, Regions and Nations
Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands
Journal Article Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands: Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560 –1585 Get access Judith Pollmann Judith Pollmann Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Leiden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 83–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj003 Published: 01 February 2006
Met grootvaders bloed bezegeld. Over religie en herinneringscultuur in de zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlanden
Memories of events in the recent past played an important role in the way in which seventeenth-century inhabitants of the Low Countries experienced their faith. In the Dutch Republic, all denominations framed their identity around tales of past suffering. Yet whereas in Catholic representations of the past in the Habsburg Netherlands the victory over heresy took center stage, religious pluralism in the Republic prevented the emergence of a collec…
Embodied Belief
1Somerville College, Oxford Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History Willem Frijhoff Hilversum Uitgeverij Verloren 2002 300 Eur 26
Women and Religion in the Dutch Golden Age
Although scholars have been aware for some time that women far out-numbered men in the Dutch Reformed Church of the Golden Age, it has proved difficult to explain why this was the case. By gaining a better understanding of which women joined the Churches, we may also get a better sense of why they did so. An analysis of the membership of the Utrecht Reformed Church in the early 1620s shows that two groups were over-represented, older unmarried wo…
Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia
Journal Article Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: Irenicism and Toleration in the Netherlands: The Stinstra Affair, 1740–1745, Joris van Eijnatten Get access Judith Pollmann Judith Pollmann Somerville College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Pages 735–736, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.735 Published: 01 June 2001
Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age
Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Nethe…
Off the Record
Most recent studies of Calvinist church discipline have used consistory records to attempt to quantify the intensity and the focus of early modern Reformed discipline. They do so on the assumption that consistory records form a representative record of disciplinary activity. This article questions that assumption. Using the journal of an Utrecht elder from the 1620s, it demonstrates, first, that his Reformed church kept no record at all of about …
Embodied Belief
1Somerville College, Oxford Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History Willem Frijhoff Hilversum Uitgeverij Verloren 2002 300 Eur 26
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands
Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown, the creation of the Dutch R…
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions
Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands
Journal Article Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands: Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560 –1585 Get access Judith Pollmann Judith Pollmann Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Leiden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 190, Issue 1, February 2006, Pages 83–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtj003 Published: 01 February 2006
"Each Should Tend His Own Garden"
The schoolmistress and best-selling poet Anna Bijns was one of the few laypeople in the sixteenth-century Netherlands who was prepared publicly to fight for the Catholic cause. This article contends that Bijns's work, exceptional as it was, reflects a "moral" understanding of the problem of heresy that was not unique to her, but that exemplified the way in which many clerics responded to the threat of Protestantism. They equated heresy with sin, …
Internationalisering en de Nederlandse Opstand
Internationalising The Dutch RevoltAt around 1960 the interpretations of the Dutch Revolt that were propounded in ‘grand narratives’ of sixteenth-century Europe, differed considerably from those on offer in the ‘national’ historiography of the Revolt. That this was to change drastically over the following five decades, was only partly due to changes in Dutch historiography. Most impulses to ‘internationalise’ interpretations of the Dutch Revolt c…
Networks, Regions and Nations
Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520‐1635
Mining the unusually rich range of diaries, memoirs, and poems written by Catholics in the 16th-century Low Countries, Judith Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and political change in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens.
Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory
most scholars who study memory believe that people in different cultures have different ways of remembering. this assumption implies that it should be possible to write a history of memory. outlines of such a history can be found in various modern theories of memory, which often contain a macro-historical component. Jacques le Goff distinguished five phases in the history of memory in the West, in which 'free, creative and vital' memory over time…
Memory before Modernity
Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case s…
Of Living Legends and Authentic Tales
Folklore experts have shown that for a legend to be remembered it is important that it is historicised. Focusing on three case-studies from early modern Germany and the Netherlands, this article explores how the historicisation of mythical narratives operated in early modern Europe, and argues that memory practices played a crucial role in the interplay between myth and history. The application of new criteria for historical evidence did not resu…
Met grootvaders bloed bezegeld. Over religie en herinneringscultuur in de zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlanden
Memories of events in the recent past played an important role in the way in which seventeenth-century inhabitants of the Low Countries experienced their faith. In the Dutch Republic, all denominations framed their identity around tales of past suffering. Yet whereas in Catholic representations of the past in the Habsburg Netherlands the victory over heresy took center stage, religious pluralism in the Republic prevented the emergence of a collec…
Memory before Modernity
Cover illustration: Memorial tablet in the façade of the so-called 'Spanish House' in the Holland town of Naarden, located on the spot of the former town hall. in 1572 during the dutch Revolt, 700 men from Naarden were gathered here and killed by Habsburg troops.The town hall was burnt down and rebuilt in 1615.(Photo Ralf Akemann
Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe
From the late Middle Ages until well into the nineteenth century, a remarkable number of middle-class men across Europe were chronicling current events in their communities and beyond, thus creating a hybrid type of noninstitutional archive that was both local and personal. Such texts were rarely printed in the lifetimes of their authors, but they circulated in the localities and were frequently read and continued by others. Some places had a par…
Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800
This book is an introduction into the way in which Europeans on the Continent and in the British Isles practised memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. In early modern Europe the past served as a main frame of moral, political, legal, religious, and social reference for people of all walks of life. Because it mattered so much, it was also hotly contested, and subject to constant reinvention. Building on both existing studies and new…
Imagining Communities
Scholars of nationalism have argued that any national consciousness before 1800 was the province of small elites, who had little interest in engaging subjects in a national project, and lacked the technologies to do so. Highlighting the wide range of media available to early modern communities, this chapter argues that forms of national memory spread through the lively practice of local memory. Local memory practices, initially mostly associated …
Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries
Early modern local chronicles are a largely neglected, yet stable genre of texts that can be used for comparative research over time and space. The NWO-funded research project Chronicling Novelty (2018–24) investigated the reception of new media and new knowledge among early modern chroniclers in the Low Countries. For this purpose, we created a digitized corpus of 204 Dutch-language chronicles from the period 1500–1850. This article presents the…
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