Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture
Lisa Jardine
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Temptation in the Archives: Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture
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Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England. Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.



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Language
English
ISBN
978-1-910634-02-8
Front cover
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Temptation in the Archives
1688 And All That: Some Curious Consequences of ‘Going Dutch’
Never Trust a Pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
The Reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: Networker or Virtuoso?
‘Dear Song’: Scholarly Whitewashing of the Correspondence between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea Van Dorp
The Afterlife of Homo Ludens: From Johan Huizinga to Natalie Zemon Davis and Beyond
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Appendix V
Index
Back cover
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