Myth in history, history in myth
By: edited by Laura Cruz, Willem Frijhoff.
Contributors: Cruz, Laura, 1969-; Frijhoff, Willem.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 182; Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 182.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789004178342
Subjects: Myth -- Political aspects -- Netherlands -- Congresses; Myth -- Social aspects -- Netherlands -- Congresses; Myth -- Political aspects -- Benelux countries -- Congresses; Myth -- Social aspects -- Benelux countries -- Congresses; Netherlands -- History -- Congresses; Netherlands -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- Congresses; Benelux countries -- History -- Congresses; Benelux countries -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Benelux countries -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Myth in history, history in myth / Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff; title: "How great the enterprise, how glorious the deed" : seventeenth-century Dutch circumnavigations as useful myths / Donald J. Harreld; title: The Orangist myth, 1650-1672 / Jill Stern; title: Myth, history, and image in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century / Jac Geurts; title: The wise man has two tongues : images of the Satyr and peasant by Jordaens and Steen / Kimberlee Cloutier-Blazzard; title: Emblematic myths : Anneke's fortune, Bogardus's farewell, and Kieft's son / Willem Frijhoff; title: International law and national existence : the myth of strict neutrality (1918-?) / Hubert P. van Tuyll; title: The epic story of the little republic that could : the role of patriotic myths in the Dutch Golden Age / Laura Cruz; title: History and myth of Dutch popular protest in the Napoleonic period (1806-1813) / Johan Joor; title: 'Neerlands Israel' : political theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical antiquarianism, and historical myth / Theodor Dunkelgrün; title: Rembrandt and the historical construction of his Conspiration of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc.