Disaster and Discord: Romeyn de Hooghe and the Dutch State of Ruination in 1675

Asperen, H. van

doi:10.1080/03096564.2020.1809285

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“…In this project the cultural responses in different media (painting, newspapers, etc.) to floods and other disasters are mapped, tracing changes as well as continuities, such as the nation’s struggle against water ( https://dealingwithdisasters.nl/en ; see also Jensen 2018 , 2019 ; Duiveman 2019 ; Van Asperen 2020 ). The analysis in this article suggests that, in as far as water and the national identity are concerned, land reclamation was as important as flood disasters, but in a somewhat different way and for different social groups.…”

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“…From the seventeenth Century onwards, many accounts of floods were published. Originally, they were often presented as Divine punishments and warnings for sins committed, such as discord, luxury and lack of faith (Alutarius 1656 –1657; De Vries 1687 ; Schama 1988 ; Sundberg 2015 ; Van Asperen 2020 ). In somewhat less orthodox accounts, they were (and to some extent still are) used to show God’s grace, for instance when flood victims are saved miraculously or welcomed in Heaven (see Mostert 2015 ).…”

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Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea

Mostert

2020

Water Hist

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According to a popular Dutch theory, water has shaped the Dutch national identity. The Dutch fight against the water would have stimulated perseverance, ingenuity, cooperation and an egalitarian and democratic society. Despite the long water management history of the Netherlands, water became an important part of the self-images of the nation only in the eighteenth Century. In the 1780s the idea that the Dutch had wrung their country from the sea became popular. Initially, this idea was especially popular among the (proto-)liberal opposition, who emphasised the importance of the nation and its achievements. By the end of the nineteenth Century, water had become a national symbol for orthodox Calvinists, Roman Catholics and Socialists too, despite their different views on the nation. Whenever there was fast social change, political turmoil or external threats, as in the late eighteenth Century, the 1930s and 1940s and since the 1990s, the link between water and the Netherlands was used to promote national pride and unity and stimulate action. This link has also been used to promote specific hydraulic works, but it is a topic for further research how widespread and effective this practice was. As this paper is part of a special issue, Water History in the time of COVID-19, it has undergone modified peer review.

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Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea

Mostert

2020

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Floods as shapers of Dutch cultural identity: media, theories and practices

Jensen

2021

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This article offers a theoretical framework which can be used to study processes of national identity formation through the lens of nature-induced disasters, such as floods. Firstly, it discusses the current state of affairs in historical disaster studies and shows how this field may be enriched by adapting the concept of the ‘imagined community’ developed in nationalism studies. It furthermore combines insights and concepts from literary studies, cultural studies and memory studies. Secondly, it applies this framework to Dutch history, by discussing the role of flood narratives in shaping a national identity. Studying the Dutch representations of flood disasters illustrates how the nation’s identity was shaped by the cultural media that communicated these events. They made use of a recurrent set of tropes, which linked the emergence of national identity to the capacity for coping with floods. This was articulated in a narrative framework, which consisted of standard ingredients, such as the such as the highlighting of horrific events, miraculous rescues, and God’s providence. Furthermore, authors foregrounded the involvement of Dutch kings and queens during flood disasters, and framed of the Dutch as being charitable by nature. The analysis of a wide range of media (stories, poems, treatises) shows how processes of national identity formation were shaped in cultural discourses in the aftermath of disasters, a process that is still going on.

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Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron

Casanova

2024

The Seventeenth Century

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Disaster and Discord: Romeyn de Hooghe and the Dutch State of Ruination in 1675

Cited by 3 publications

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Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea

Water and national identity in the Netherlands; the history of an idea

Floods as shapers of Dutch cultural identity: media, theories and practices

Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron

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