Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt: The Narrated Diaspora, 1550 - 1750

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31166-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 199, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reform

The Dutch Revolt (ca. 1572-1648) led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people. In Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt, Johannes Müller shows how migrants and their descendants in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany cultivated their Netherlandish heritage for more than 200 years. Memories of war and persecution shaped new religious and political identities that combined images of suffering and heroism and served as foundational narratives of newcomers.

Exposing the underlying narrative structures of early modern exile memories, this volume shows how stories about the Dutch Revolt allowed migrants to participate in their host societies rather than producing a closed and exclusive diaspora. While narratives of religious persecution attracted non-migrants as well, exile networks were able to connect newcomers and established residents.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Johannes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Exilliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
The revelation of the past
Memories and the continuation of the diaspora
Migration and memory
Transmigration and its multiple ties
Diasporic imagination and patriotic discourse
Exile memories and their changing meanings

1. Imagining the diaspora
The formation of diaspora narratives
In defense of the diaspora
‘Exile theology’ and confessional identity
Making sense of exile
Punishing the wicked – chastising the elect
Exile and persecution as the marks of God’s true children
Exile as God’s command
At home in the diaspora

2. Recapturing the patria
Memory and the anticipation of the future
‘Hot’ and ‘cold’ memory
Keeping the past alive
Exile and the reclaiming of the homeland
‘Memoria magistra vita’
Remapping the Netherlands

3. Strangers, burghers, patriots
Re-imagining Southern Netherlandish identity in the exile towns
The social and political position of southern migrants in the Dutch Republic
Leiden and Haarlem as exile towns
Haarlem and the memory of the London martyrs
Remembering Flemish radicalism
Rich or poor immigrants?
Memory as ‘a salutary warning’
Managing counter-memory
Disseminating inclusive exile identities
Inscribing migrant memories into the local memory canon
Fragmentary discourses

4. The reinvention of family history
Family memories and the change of generations
Family memories between the diaspora and host societies
Reinventing family history
The geographical re-imagination of the family past
Permeable memories

5. Ancient landmarks of the fathers – maintaining old networks
In pursuit of a fleeing horseman
At home, here and abroad
Maintaining ties
The stranger churches and the continuation of diasporic networks
Southern institutions in the Dutch Republic

6. Godly wanderers – Exile memories and new cultures of religious exclusivism
Pilgrims behind the fiery column
Puritanism and the fashioning of transnational identities
London: Cultivating the model church
Frankfurt: Trans-confessional Pietism and diasporic networks
Building the New Jerusalem – Frankfurt and the ‘Holy Experiment’
‘The trying fires of persecution’

Conclusion – Permeable memories

List of archival sources
List of printed sources
Secondary literature

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Johannes Müller, Ph.D. (2014), is lecturer of German literature and culture at Leiden University. He has published on early modern literature, migration and religion and is co-editor of the volume Memory before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2013).