Gerrit Verhoeven
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4102008 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gerrit Verhoeven |
| PRENOMES | Gerrit |
| SOBRENOME | Verhoeven |
| ASSINATURA | VERHOEVEN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Antwerp |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Frozen in time
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Belgian tourist offices continued to promote images of the nation that had originated during the Enlightenment. Foreign travellers often portrayed Belgian cities as preserved remnants of a glorious artistic and cultural past, while their landscapes were depicted as picturesque and untouched by modernity. These representations contrasted sharply with Belgium's reality as a centre of industriali…
Urban tourism promotion in Belgium and the Netherlands
Urban tourism has expanded dramatically in recent decades, reshaping European cities economically, socially and culturally. Yet its roots run much deeper, as (early) modern urban centres – especially in the Low Countries – developed distinctive traditions of tourism and place promotion. This special issue highlights how civic boosterism, marketing innovations and inter-urban competition shaped these early practices. Bringing together new research…
Kees Kuiken, Rural salvation markets. Medieval memoria in Dutch village parishes
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Fashionably late? Time, work and the industrious revolution in early modern Antwerp (1585–1795)
Drawing evidence from the proceedings of the Antwerp hoogere Vierschaer (the local criminal court), the article challenges some key features from Jan de Vries’ hypothesis of the Industrious Revolution. Mesmerised by an endless variety of fashionable and exotic consumer goods, eighteenth-century people would have slashed their leisure time in a variety of ways. Labour input would have been forced up on a daily, weekly and annual base. However, tim…
Malleable Masculinity
Drawing evidence from the letters and travel journal of Jan Teding van Berkhout—scion of a wealthy regenten family from Delft—this article scrutinizes how elite masculinity and wellevendheid (politeness) were constructed, perceived, experienced, and contested in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. Berkhout’s correspondence not only hints at some important differences in the Netherlandish and British interpretation of polite masculinity but als…
Les pèlerins de la saison sèche
Belgium has often been labelled as a reluctant colonizer in the past. Yet, a meticulous analysis of tourist magazines, guidebooks, brochures, posters, and documentaries on colonial tourism in the Belgian Congo tells a different story. Travel literature was often teeming with pro-empire propaganda that emphasized the primitiveness of the Congo and underscored the civilizing mission. Tourism was, in this respect, not very different from the overtly…
Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’
Files of the local criminal court in Antwerp – the Hoogere Vierschaar – are used in this article to assess the evolution of literacy and numeracy in Antwerp. Both forms of human capital are habitually seen as strongly intertwined, yet our evidence shows that they were not always geared to one another. Literacy did not grow significantly in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while it reached its high-water mark in other Europ…
Foreshadowing Tourism
Against the clock
Traditionally a large role has been attributed to the spread of clocks and watches in fostering a 'modern' awareness of time. Yet, little research is available that empirically enables signs of growing time awareness to be linked to the distribution of time-keeping devices. In this article both these phenomena are brought together using two independent sets of evidence that permit the hypothesis that clocks and watches contributed to a heightened…
Een zoet verval - Nederlandse reizigers en hun visie op de stad aan de stroom (1600-1750)
Deserted quays, ramshackle warehouses, rusty cranes, dilapidated houses, and pavements speckled with rank weeds: the stereotypical images used by early modern travellers to illustrate the decline of Antwerp after the Spanish Recapture (1585) and the closing of the Scheldt are well known. Deriving new insights from recent literature on heritage travel and lieux de mémoire, and by using a select body of Dutch travel books in manuscript, this articl…
Een Divertissant Somertogje’
L'influence des guides imprimés aux Pays-Bas sur la construction et l'évolution de l'espace touristique européen (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)
De kronieken van de Delftse tertiarissenconventen
Contrary to the Congregation of Windesheim the Third Order of St Francis is not rich in historiographical works. No more than five chronicles of convents and a fragment of a sixth one have come down to us. In this article the chronicles of the Delft convents of St Agatha (founded 1380) and St Barbara (founded 1401) are analysed and edited. The chronicle of St Agatha might have been written by Maria Ofhuys, mother of the convent around 1450. She t…
Fashionably late? Time, work and the industrious revolution in early modern Antwerp (1585–1795)
Drawing evidence from the proceedings of the Antwerp hoogere Vierschaer (the local criminal court), the article challenges some key features from Jan de Vries’ hypothesis of the Industrious Revolution. Mesmerised by an endless variety of fashionable and exotic consumer goods, eighteenth-century people would have slashed their leisure time in a variety of ways. Labour input would have been forced up on a daily, weekly and annual base. However, tim…
Against the clock
Traditionally a large role has been attributed to the spread of clocks and watches in fostering a 'modern' awareness of time. Yet, little research is available that empirically enables signs of growing time awareness to be linked to the distribution of time-keeping devices. In this article both these phenomena are brought together using two independent sets of evidence that permit the hypothesis that clocks and watches contributed to a heightened…
Les pèlerins de la saison sèche
Belgium has often been labelled as a reluctant colonizer in the past. Yet, a meticulous analysis of tourist magazines, guidebooks, brochures, posters, and documentaries on colonial tourism in the Belgian Congo tells a different story. Travel literature was often teeming with pro-empire propaganda that emphasized the primitiveness of the Congo and underscored the civilizing mission. Tourism was, in this respect, not very different from the overtly…
Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’
Files of the local criminal court in Antwerp – the Hoogere Vierschaar – are used in this article to assess the evolution of literacy and numeracy in Antwerp. Both forms of human capital are habitually seen as strongly intertwined, yet our evidence shows that they were not always geared to one another. Literacy did not grow significantly in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while it reached its high-water mark in other Europ…
Foreshadowing Tourism
Een zoet verval - Nederlandse reizigers en hun visie op de stad aan de stroom (1600-1750)
Deserted quays, ramshackle warehouses, rusty cranes, dilapidated houses, and pavements speckled with rank weeds: the stereotypical images used by early modern travellers to illustrate the decline of Antwerp after the Spanish Recapture (1585) and the closing of the Scheldt are well known. Deriving new insights from recent literature on heritage travel and lieux de mémoire, and by using a select body of Dutch travel books in manuscript, this articl…
Een Divertissant Somertogje’
De kronieken van de Delftse tertiarissenconventen
Contrary to the Congregation of Windesheim the Third Order of St Francis is not rich in historiographical works. No more than five chronicles of convents and a fragment of a sixth one have come down to us. In this article the chronicles of the Delft convents of St Agatha (founded 1380) and St Barbara (founded 1401) are analysed and edited. The chronicle of St Agatha might have been written by Maria Ofhuys, mother of the convent around 1450. She t…
L'influence des guides imprimés aux Pays-Bas sur la construction et l'évolution de l'espace touristique européen (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)
Een Divertissant Somertogje’
Een zoet verval - Nederlandse reizigers en hun visie op de stad aan de stroom (1600-1750)
Deserted quays, ramshackle warehouses, rusty cranes, dilapidated houses, and pavements speckled with rank weeds: the stereotypical images used by early modern travellers to illustrate the decline of Antwerp after the Spanish Recapture (1585) and the closing of the Scheldt are well known. Deriving new insights from recent literature on heritage travel and lieux de mémoire, and by using a select body of Dutch travel books in manuscript, this articl…
Foreshadowing Tourism
Against the clock
Traditionally a large role has been attributed to the spread of clocks and watches in fostering a 'modern' awareness of time. Yet, little research is available that empirically enables signs of growing time awareness to be linked to the distribution of time-keeping devices. In this article both these phenomena are brought together using two independent sets of evidence that permit the hypothesis that clocks and watches contributed to a heightened…
Le pays où on ne sait pas lire’
Files of the local criminal court in Antwerp – the Hoogere Vierschaar – are used in this article to assess the evolution of literacy and numeracy in Antwerp. Both forms of human capital are habitually seen as strongly intertwined, yet our evidence shows that they were not always geared to one another. Literacy did not grow significantly in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while it reached its high-water mark in other Europ…
Les pèlerins de la saison sèche
Belgium has often been labelled as a reluctant colonizer in the past. Yet, a meticulous analysis of tourist magazines, guidebooks, brochures, posters, and documentaries on colonial tourism in the Belgian Congo tells a different story. Travel literature was often teeming with pro-empire propaganda that emphasized the primitiveness of the Congo and underscored the civilizing mission. Tourism was, in this respect, not very different from the overtly…
Kees Kuiken, Rural salvation markets. Medieval memoria in Dutch village parishes
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Fashionably late? Time, work and the industrious revolution in early modern Antwerp (1585–1795)
Drawing evidence from the proceedings of the Antwerp hoogere Vierschaer (the local criminal court), the article challenges some key features from Jan de Vries’ hypothesis of the Industrious Revolution. Mesmerised by an endless variety of fashionable and exotic consumer goods, eighteenth-century people would have slashed their leisure time in a variety of ways. Labour input would have been forced up on a daily, weekly and annual base. However, tim…
Malleable Masculinity
Drawing evidence from the letters and travel journal of Jan Teding van Berkhout—scion of a wealthy regenten family from Delft—this article scrutinizes how elite masculinity and wellevendheid (politeness) were constructed, perceived, experienced, and contested in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. Berkhout’s correspondence not only hints at some important differences in the Netherlandish and British interpretation of polite masculinity but als…
Frozen in time
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Belgian tourist offices continued to promote images of the nation that had originated during the Enlightenment. Foreign travellers often portrayed Belgian cities as preserved remnants of a glorious artistic and cultural past, while their landscapes were depicted as picturesque and untouched by modernity. These representations contrasted sharply with Belgium's reality as a centre of industriali…
Urban tourism promotion in Belgium and the Netherlands
Urban tourism has expanded dramatically in recent decades, reshaping European cities economically, socially and culturally. Yet its roots run much deeper, as (early) modern urban centres – especially in the Low Countries – developed distinctive traditions of tourism and place promotion. This special issue highlights how civic boosterism, marketing innovations and inter-urban competition shaped these early practices. Bringing together new research…
History (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century (4 obras) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (4 obras) · Humanities (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Economics (3 obras)