Esther van Raamsdonk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther van Raamsdonk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | van Raamsdonk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN RAAMSDONK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Searching for the Dutch Corner in the Republic of Letters
This article has a twofold contribution. First, it offers a new way to consider communities that are conceptually and analytically difficult to define. This method has been based on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘family resemblance’, applied here through a novel quantitative process, using an online knowledge base – Wikidata – and bespoke visualisations to identify communities in large epistolary datasets. A bipartite analysis b…
John Milton’s Network and the Republic of Letters
In this article, Esther van Raamsdonk and Ruth Ahnert apply social network analysis to show us Milton’s influence on seventeenth-century literary, philosophical, and diplomatic networks. Their analysis offers a remarkably clear sense of Milton’s direct and indirect influence in England and on the Continent as well as demonstrating ways in which Milton might have been influenced himself by European intellectual, literary, and political culture. In…
Vondel’s English Lucifer and Milton’s Dutch Satan
The anonymous pamphlet, Lucifer Faln, or, Some Reflections on the Present Estate of the Low- Countries (1672) from which these verses are taken, is bombastic doggerel of the kind common in times of conflict and rivalry. It neatly captures the popular myths that characterized Anglo- Dutch tensions in the seventeenth century, stoked by anxieties about each other’s growing trading empires and debates around politics and religion. Linking the opposin…
Across the narrow sea
The busy traffic between England and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century produced travel literature by merchants, scholars, soldiers, and diplomats. What can these sources tell us about commonalities and differences among these travellers and between the nations?This article provides a case study of a transnational approach, setting Dutch and English accounts side by side to enrich our understanding of how travellers sought out specif…
The Royalist Republic
Helmer J. Helmers’s book aims to define and illustrate the paradox of how a Dutch Republic which was dominated by Calvinists became involved in the English civil wars, regicide and restoration. It does this by interrogating a comprehensive corpus of Dutch and English works dealing with the English situation in the period. Helmers’s approach, which involves a double Anglo-Dutch perspective of ‘international historicism’, enables a more complete ov…
Across the narrow sea
The busy traffic between England and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century produced travel literature by merchants, scholars, soldiers, and diplomats. What can these sources tell us about commonalities and differences among these travellers and between the nations?This article provides a case study of a transnational approach, setting Dutch and English accounts side by side to enrich our understanding of how travellers sought out specif…
The Royalist Republic
Helmer J. Helmers’s book aims to define and illustrate the paradox of how a Dutch Republic which was dominated by Calvinists became involved in the English civil wars, regicide and restoration. It does this by interrogating a comprehensive corpus of Dutch and English works dealing with the English situation in the period. Helmers’s approach, which involves a double Anglo-Dutch perspective of ‘international historicism’, enables a more complete ov…
Across the narrow sea
The busy traffic between England and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century produced travel literature by merchants, scholars, soldiers, and diplomats. What can these sources tell us about commonalities and differences among these travellers and between the nations?This article provides a case study of a transnational approach, setting Dutch and English accounts side by side to enrich our understanding of how travellers sought out specif…
John Milton’s Network and the Republic of Letters
In this article, Esther van Raamsdonk and Ruth Ahnert apply social network analysis to show us Milton’s influence on seventeenth-century literary, philosophical, and diplomatic networks. Their analysis offers a remarkably clear sense of Milton’s direct and indirect influence in England and on the Continent as well as demonstrating ways in which Milton might have been influenced himself by European intellectual, literary, and political culture. In…
Vondel’s English Lucifer and Milton’s Dutch Satan
The anonymous pamphlet, Lucifer Faln, or, Some Reflections on the Present Estate of the Low- Countries (1672) from which these verses are taken, is bombastic doggerel of the kind common in times of conflict and rivalry. It neatly captures the popular myths that characterized Anglo- Dutch tensions in the seventeenth century, stoked by anxieties about each other’s growing trading empires and debates around politics and religion. Linking the opposin…
Searching for the Dutch Corner in the Republic of Letters
This article has a twofold contribution. First, it offers a new way to consider communities that are conceptually and analytically difficult to define. This method has been based on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ‘family resemblance’, applied here through a novel quantitative process, using an online knowledge base – Wikidata – and bespoke visualisations to identify communities in large epistolary datasets. A bipartite analysis b…
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