Temptation in the Archives
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781910634028
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1: Temptation in the Archives; label: Chapter 2: 1688 And All That: Some Curious Consequences of ‘Going Dutch’; label: Chapter 3: Never Trust a Pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks; label: Chapter 4: The Reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: Networker or Virtuoso?; label: Chapter 5: ‘Dear Song’: Scholarly Whitewashing in the Correspondence between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea Van Dorp; label: Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Homo Ludens: From Huizinga to Zemon Davis and Beyond; label: Appendices; title: Index