Marieke M A Hendriksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 411687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marieke M A Hendriksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marieke M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendriksen |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRIKSEN M M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7347-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tasting the Past? Developing a Methodology for Researching Historical Tastes
Just like books, paintings, and music, historical foodways are an important part of our history and heritage. But simply reading recipes does not tell us much, as it is hard to understand how historical ingredients and dishes tasted, and how people in the past experienced and valued such tastes. In the research project Tastes of the Past , a team consisting of three historians, an archaeobotanist, and a professional taster developed a methodology…
The Dutch and their Love for Liquorice
The Dutch eat more liquorice confectionery than anyone else, yet the liquorice plant is not indigenous and liquorice confectionery is not uniquely Dutch. In this article, the Dutch love for liquorice is first placed within a theoretical framework of how food and national identity can be connected. Subsequently, it is shown that the connection between liquorice and Dutch identity has been shaped through familiar processes and strategies of heritag…
Taste and the history of science
In this introduction, we argue that the time is right to explore the role that taste has played in the history of science. For a long time, scientists, philosophers and historians regarded taste as incompatible with the production of knowledge, contrasting the apparent subjectivity of taste with the objectivity supposedly required by the sciences. In recent years, however, the intellectual foundations of this presumed incompatibility have broken …
Making the body politic through medicine
How, where and by whom were bodies shaped, maintained and politicized through medicine, diet and taste in the seventeenth-century Low Countries? The medicinal use of foodstuffs, tastes and diets played an important role in the maintenance and restoration of health in the early modern period. Simultaneously, the metaphor of the body politic has been used widely in historical regimes, yet the focus tends to be on royalty or elite bodies, and on pol…
Boerhaave's Furnace. Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models
This article discusses the (re)construction and use of an Early modern instrument, better known as Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) little furnace. We investigate the origins, history and materiality of this furnace, and examine the dynamic relationship between historical study and reconstructing and handling an object. We argue that combining textual analysis with performative methods allows us to gain a better understanding of both the role of lo…
Rethinking Performative Methods in the History of Science
Performative methods have been part of history of science research and education for at least three decades. Understood broadly, they cover every methodology in which a historian or philosopher of science engages in embodied interaction with sources, tools and materials that do not traditionally belong to historical research, with the aim of answering a historical research question. The question no longer appears to be whether performative method…
Casting life, casting death
Although the historical connections between anatomy and the visual arts have been explored in quite some depth, especially in the cases of early modern anatomical drawing, sculpting, the making of wet preparations and wax modelling, the role of artistic techniques in the creation of corrosive preparations has received little attention thus far. This is remarkable, as there appear to be significant similarities between casting techniques like thos…
Criticizing Chrysopoeia? Alchemy, Chemistry, Academics, and Satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1750
This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and artisanal as well as popular culture in the Netherlands in order to gain a better understanding of the supposed transformation of alchemy into chemistry in this region. A fresh view on the sites of Dutch chemistry around 1700 is provided, demonstrating that the unique sociopolitical and geological characteristics of the…
Consumer Culture, Self-Prescription, and Status
A comparative analysis of four nineteenth-century medicine chests from the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London and the lives of their owners, shows that although the nineteenth century saw a rampant growth in medicinal consumer goods, the availability of effective self-prescription drugs remained limited, even to those affluent enough to acquire a ‘personal’ medicine chest. The article shows that retail medicine chests…
Anatomical Mercury
The use of mercury as an injection mass in anatomical experiments and preparations was common throughout Europe in the long eighteenth century, and refined mercury-injected preparations as well as plates of anatomical mercury remain today. The use and meaning of mercury in related disciplines such as medicine and chemistry in the same period have been studied, but our knowledge of anatomical mercury is sparse and tends to focus on technicalities.…
Rethinking Performative Methods in the History of Science
Performative methods have been part of history of science research and education for at least three decades. Understood broadly, they cover every methodology in which a historian or philosopher of science engages in embodied interaction with sources, tools and materials that do not traditionally belong to historical research, with the aim of answering a historical research question. The question no longer appears to be whether performative method…
Boerhaave's Furnace. Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models
This article discusses the (re)construction and use of an Early modern instrument, better known as Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) little furnace. We investigate the origins, history and materiality of this furnace, and examine the dynamic relationship between historical study and reconstructing and handling an object. We argue that combining textual analysis with performative methods allows us to gain a better understanding of both the role of lo…
Criticizing Chrysopoeia? Alchemy, Chemistry, Academics, and Satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1750
This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and artisanal as well as popular culture in the Netherlands in order to gain a better understanding of the supposed transformation of alchemy into chemistry in this region. A fresh view on the sites of Dutch chemistry around 1700 is provided, demonstrating that the unique sociopolitical and geological characteristics of the…
Anatomical Mercury
The use of mercury as an injection mass in anatomical experiments and preparations was common throughout Europe in the long eighteenth century, and refined mercury-injected preparations as well as plates of anatomical mercury remain today. The use and meaning of mercury in related disciplines such as medicine and chemistry in the same period have been studied, but our knowledge of anatomical mercury is sparse and tends to focus on technicalities.…
Anatomical Mercury
The use of mercury as an injection mass in anatomical experiments and preparations was common throughout Europe in the long eighteenth century, and refined mercury-injected preparations as well as plates of anatomical mercury remain today. The use and meaning of mercury in related disciplines such as medicine and chemistry in the same period have been studied, but our knowledge of anatomical mercury is sparse and tends to focus on technicalities.…
Consumer Culture, Self-Prescription, and Status
A comparative analysis of four nineteenth-century medicine chests from the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London and the lives of their owners, shows that although the nineteenth century saw a rampant growth in medicinal consumer goods, the availability of effective self-prescription drugs remained limited, even to those affluent enough to acquire a ‘personal’ medicine chest. The article shows that retail medicine chests…
Criticizing Chrysopoeia? Alchemy, Chemistry, Academics, and Satire in the Northern Netherlands, 1650-1750
This essay argues that we should consider perceptions of and associations with alchemical language and practices in academic and artisanal as well as popular culture in the Netherlands in order to gain a better understanding of the supposed transformation of alchemy into chemistry in this region. A fresh view on the sites of Dutch chemistry around 1700 is provided, demonstrating that the unique sociopolitical and geological characteristics of the…
Casting life, casting death
Although the historical connections between anatomy and the visual arts have been explored in quite some depth, especially in the cases of early modern anatomical drawing, sculpting, the making of wet preparations and wax modelling, the role of artistic techniques in the creation of corrosive preparations has received little attention thus far. This is remarkable, as there appear to be significant similarities between casting techniques like thos…
Boerhaave's Furnace. Exploring Early Modern Chemistry through Working Models
This article discusses the (re)construction and use of an Early modern instrument, better known as Herman Boerhaave's (1668–1738) little furnace. We investigate the origins, history and materiality of this furnace, and examine the dynamic relationship between historical study and reconstructing and handling an object. We argue that combining textual analysis with performative methods allows us to gain a better understanding of both the role of lo…
Rethinking Performative Methods in the History of Science
Performative methods have been part of history of science research and education for at least three decades. Understood broadly, they cover every methodology in which a historian or philosopher of science engages in embodied interaction with sources, tools and materials that do not traditionally belong to historical research, with the aim of answering a historical research question. The question no longer appears to be whether performative method…
Taste and the history of science
In this introduction, we argue that the time is right to explore the role that taste has played in the history of science. For a long time, scientists, philosophers and historians regarded taste as incompatible with the production of knowledge, contrasting the apparent subjectivity of taste with the objectivity supposedly required by the sciences. In recent years, however, the intellectual foundations of this presumed incompatibility have broken …
Making the body politic through medicine
How, where and by whom were bodies shaped, maintained and politicized through medicine, diet and taste in the seventeenth-century Low Countries? The medicinal use of foodstuffs, tastes and diets played an important role in the maintenance and restoration of health in the early modern period. Simultaneously, the metaphor of the body politic has been used widely in historical regimes, yet the focus tends to be on royalty or elite bodies, and on pol…
The Dutch and their Love for Liquorice
The Dutch eat more liquorice confectionery than anyone else, yet the liquorice plant is not indigenous and liquorice confectionery is not uniquely Dutch. In this article, the Dutch love for liquorice is first placed within a theoretical framework of how food and national identity can be connected. Subsequently, it is shown that the connection between liquorice and Dutch identity has been shaped through familiar processes and strategies of heritag…
Tasting the Past? Developing a Methodology for Researching Historical Tastes
Just like books, paintings, and music, historical foodways are an important part of our history and heritage. But simply reading recipes does not tell us much, as it is hard to understand how historical ingredients and dishes tasted, and how people in the past experienced and valued such tastes. In the research project Tastes of the Past , a team consisting of three historians, an archaeobotanist, and a professional taster developed a methodology…
Aesthetics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History of Science and Natural History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Medicine Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works)