Dries Lyna
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dries Lyna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dries |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyna |
| SIGNATURE | LYNA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0623-9517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Widowhood and female agency in the Dutch-colonial Indian Ocean World. Rethinking social networks through local women’s lives (1750–1800)
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Looping Bureaucracies. Imperial Administrations and Socio-Political Change in Asia (1750–1950)
From the early modern period onwards, European dynasties sought to expand their power in South and Southeast Asia, establishing localised institutions that incorporated both European models and precolonial Asian practices. Studies on local resistance to imposed bureaucratisation overlook how locals navigated the bureaucracy for societal or political change. In this special issue, historians of colonial India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia investigate …
On solid ground? Manumitted slaves, land ownership and registration in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka
Contains fulltext : 305658.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900
Wherever and whenever systems of slavery existed, enslaved people struggled to attain freedom.Spanning various imperial contexts from 1750 to 1920, this special issue convenes a team of scholars to investigate the aftermath of emancipation.What did freedom from slavery entail in deeply unequal colonial societies?This issue explores diverse experiences, from maroon communities in the Caribbean wilderness to the forced resettlement of freed slaves …
On the fringes of empire? Rethinking suburbs as colonial spaces in early modern South and Southeast Asia
This survey challenges conventional perceptions of colonial suburbs in the early modern Indian Ocean world in general, and those under the rule of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in particular. Recent urban research advocates re-evaluating suburbs as intricate and diverse spaces, yet this shift has had limited impact on historical studies of early modern colonialism. The survey highlights the importance of recognizing suburban regions in eight…
Paper Empires
Anthropologists and historians have recently underscored the ways in which European colonialism created novel regimes of legality and record-keeping, associated with ambitious and exclusive state-centered claims to both truth and rights, while being inevitably and constantly sucked into eddies of forgery and corruption. However, attention so far has been focused on English/European-language records and the colonial institutions that produced, sto…
Customs From the Other Shore
Studies on early modern legal culture increasingly focus attention on the (limited) agency of “users” or “consumers” of justice, and the strategies devised by litigants and witnesses in relationship to the institutional codes of the legal system. Besides drawing the Dutch colonial empire into the debates, this article explicitly wants to shift attention away from criminal procedures, and highlight the neglected potential of interrogations and cro…
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka
Challenging the optimistic thesis on female Asian agency in the early modern Dutch empire, this article studies widows’ socio-legal position in the cross-cultural setting of colonial Sri Lanka. Normative legislation and judicial records on stepfamilial feuds from eighteenth-century Dutch Sri Lanka allow us not only to understand how both litigating parties tried to work the Roman-Dutch legal system to get a favorable verdict, but also to unveil t…
Material Pluralism and Symbolic Violence
This article studies the registration practices of land and property on palm leaf deeds ( olas ) in Sri Lanka, in relationship to the advent of paper land grants ( giftebrieven ) under the Dutch East India Company (VOC)’s rule in the long eighteenth century. A database of about 2500 Dutch land grant deeds and translated olas, ranging from 1685 to 1795 are contextualised via judicial records of Dutch civil courts, where (translated) olas were regu…
Classifications at Work
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living in coastal Sri Lanka during the eighteenth century. A thorough analysis of three spheres of Dutch bureaucracy (reporting, registering, and litigating) makes it clear that there was no uniform ideology that steered categorisation practices top-down throughout …
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Le Sri Lanka, sous contrôle hollandais au xviii e siècle, nous offre la possibilité d’étudier l’influence du contrôle administratif sur le quotidien de la vie familiale en contexte colonial. Cet article concentre son attention sur les modalités d’enregistrement par les documents administratifs néerlandais des pratiques matrimoniales cinghalaises. Nous savons, grâce à différentes sources, que ces dernières étaient jugées tout à fait indécentes par…
Neophilia and Old Master paintings
Over the course of the eighteenth century the Austrian Netherlands witnessed the emergence of specialised art auctions. In this article we argue that both the evolution of the auctions and of the prices paid for works of art at the auctions can only be understood as a response to changes in consumer culture during the eighteenth century. Although auctions rapidly gained in importance as a commercial arena through which Old Masters could be resold…
De culturele constructies voorbij? Prijsevoluties op de veilingmarkten voor schilderijen in de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden (1739-1794)
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A strategy of seduction? The role of commercial advertisements in the eighteenth-century retailing business of Antwerp
This article aims to place the use of promotional advertising material in a long-term perspective. By analysing the functioning of eighteenth-century commercial notices in the retailing business of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands, we try to demonstrate how advertisements of this kind had no clear-cut persuasive meaning. Rather, they were used as a way of mediating information barriers between buyers and sellers and, thus, l…
De geboorte van de moderne veiling. Specialisering en commercialisering van publieke verkopen in achttiende-eeuws Antwerpen
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A strategy of seduction? The role of commercial advertisements in the eighteenth-century retailing business of Antwerp
This article aims to place the use of promotional advertising material in a long-term perspective. By analysing the functioning of eighteenth-century commercial notices in the retailing business of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands, we try to demonstrate how advertisements of this kind had no clear-cut persuasive meaning. Rather, they were used as a way of mediating information barriers between buyers and sellers and, thus, l…
Classifications at Work
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living in coastal Sri Lanka during the eighteenth century. A thorough analysis of three spheres of Dutch bureaucracy (reporting, registering, and litigating) makes it clear that there was no uniform ideology that steered categorisation practices top-down throughout …
Material Pluralism and Symbolic Violence
This article studies the registration practices of land and property on palm leaf deeds ( olas ) in Sri Lanka, in relationship to the advent of paper land grants ( giftebrieven ) under the Dutch East India Company (VOC)’s rule in the long eighteenth century. A database of about 2500 Dutch land grant deeds and translated olas, ranging from 1685 to 1795 are contextualised via judicial records of Dutch civil courts, where (translated) olas were regu…
Neophilia and Old Master paintings
Over the course of the eighteenth century the Austrian Netherlands witnessed the emergence of specialised art auctions. In this article we argue that both the evolution of the auctions and of the prices paid for works of art at the auctions can only be understood as a response to changes in consumer culture during the eighteenth century. Although auctions rapidly gained in importance as a commercial arena through which Old Masters could be resold…
De geboorte van de moderne veiling. Specialisering en commercialisering van publieke verkopen in achttiende-eeuws Antwerpen
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
A strategy of seduction? The role of commercial advertisements in the eighteenth-century retailing business of Antwerp
This article aims to place the use of promotional advertising material in a long-term perspective. By analysing the functioning of eighteenth-century commercial notices in the retailing business of Antwerp, a provincial town in the southern Netherlands, we try to demonstrate how advertisements of this kind had no clear-cut persuasive meaning. Rather, they were used as a way of mediating information barriers between buyers and sellers and, thus, l…
De culturele constructies voorbij? Prijsevoluties op de veilingmarkten voor schilderijen in de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden (1739-1794)
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Neophilia and Old Master paintings
Over the course of the eighteenth century the Austrian Netherlands witnessed the emergence of specialised art auctions. In this article we argue that both the evolution of the auctions and of the prices paid for works of art at the auctions can only be understood as a response to changes in consumer culture during the eighteenth century. Although auctions rapidly gained in importance as a commercial arena through which Old Masters could be resold…
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Contested conjugality? Sinhalese marriage practices in eighteenth-century Dutch colonial Sri Lanka
Le Sri Lanka, sous contrôle hollandais au xviii e siècle, nous offre la possibilité d’étudier l’influence du contrôle administratif sur le quotidien de la vie familiale en contexte colonial. Cet article concentre son attention sur les modalités d’enregistrement par les documents administratifs néerlandais des pratiques matrimoniales cinghalaises. Nous savons, grâce à différentes sources, que ces dernières étaient jugées tout à fait indécentes par…
Classifications at Work
Feeding into current debates on ethnic identities in colonial South Asia, this article questions to what extent Dutch institutions articulated and impacted social categories of people living in coastal Sri Lanka during the eighteenth century. A thorough analysis of three spheres of Dutch bureaucracy (reporting, registering, and litigating) makes it clear that there was no uniform ideology that steered categorisation practices top-down throughout …
Customs From the Other Shore
Studies on early modern legal culture increasingly focus attention on the (limited) agency of “users” or “consumers” of justice, and the strategies devised by litigants and witnesses in relationship to the institutional codes of the legal system. Besides drawing the Dutch colonial empire into the debates, this article explicitly wants to shift attention away from criminal procedures, and highlight the neglected potential of interrogations and cro…
Restrained freedom? Widows, blended families and inheritance in eighteenth-century urban Sri Lanka
Challenging the optimistic thesis on female Asian agency in the early modern Dutch empire, this article studies widows’ socio-legal position in the cross-cultural setting of colonial Sri Lanka. Normative legislation and judicial records on stepfamilial feuds from eighteenth-century Dutch Sri Lanka allow us not only to understand how both litigating parties tried to work the Roman-Dutch legal system to get a favorable verdict, but also to unveil t…
Material Pluralism and Symbolic Violence
This article studies the registration practices of land and property on palm leaf deeds ( olas ) in Sri Lanka, in relationship to the advent of paper land grants ( giftebrieven ) under the Dutch East India Company (VOC)’s rule in the long eighteenth century. A database of about 2500 Dutch land grant deeds and translated olas, ranging from 1685 to 1795 are contextualised via judicial records of Dutch civil courts, where (translated) olas were regu…
Paper Empires
Anthropologists and historians have recently underscored the ways in which European colonialism created novel regimes of legality and record-keeping, associated with ambitious and exclusive state-centered claims to both truth and rights, while being inevitably and constantly sucked into eddies of forgery and corruption. However, attention so far has been focused on English/European-language records and the colonial institutions that produced, sto…
Looping Bureaucracies. Imperial Administrations and Socio-Political Change in Asia (1750–1950)
From the early modern period onwards, European dynasties sought to expand their power in South and Southeast Asia, establishing localised institutions that incorporated both European models and precolonial Asian practices. Studies on local resistance to imposed bureaucratisation overlook how locals navigated the bureaucracy for societal or political change. In this special issue, historians of colonial India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia investigate …
On solid ground? Manumitted slaves, land ownership and registration in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka
Contains fulltext : 305658.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Rebuilding life after slavery. Manumission, emancipation, and family networks in European empires, 1750–1900
Wherever and whenever systems of slavery existed, enslaved people struggled to attain freedom.Spanning various imperial contexts from 1750 to 1920, this special issue convenes a team of scholars to investigate the aftermath of emancipation.What did freedom from slavery entail in deeply unequal colonial societies?This issue explores diverse experiences, from maroon communities in the Caribbean wilderness to the forced resettlement of freed slaves …
On the fringes of empire? Rethinking suburbs as colonial spaces in early modern South and Southeast Asia
This survey challenges conventional perceptions of colonial suburbs in the early modern Indian Ocean world in general, and those under the rule of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in particular. Recent urban research advocates re-evaluating suburbs as intricate and diverse spaces, yet this shift has had limited impact on historical studies of early modern colonialism. The survey highlights the importance of recognizing suburban regions in eight…
Widowhood and female agency in the Dutch-colonial Indian Ocean World. Rethinking social networks through local women’s lives (1750–1800)
Item does not contain fulltext
Political science (10 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)