Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands
About the Book Series
Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands explores the lively and diverse histories of the Northern and Southern Low Countries from the sixteenth until the eighteenth century. The series is multidisciplinary in nature: it provides innovative research on politics, religion, arts, literature, economics, knowledge, colonial expansion, warfare, as well as on the intersection of these different topics. The series also has a special interest in transnational and comparative perspectives on the history and culture of the Netherlands. It welcomes ground-breaking studies both on the period’s better-known individuals and episodes (e.g. Rembrandt, Dutch Revolt) as well as less prominent, neglected, voices and perspectives (e.g. female, Jewish or Black histories).
This international peer-reviewed book series, formerly known as Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age, is published by Routledge in collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for Studies in Early Modernity. The series editors are international scholars specialised in early modernity of the Netherlands. The series publishes monographs by renowned scholars as well as promising new researchers, and edited volumes.
Series Editor: Feike Dietz, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Editorial Board: Frans Blom, University of Amsterdam; Nina Lamal, Huygens Institute, KNAW; Nelleke Moser, VU University Amsterdam; Sander Karst, University of Amsterdam; Emile Schrijver, University of Amsterdam; Bart Wallet, University of Amsterdam; Thijs Weststeijn, Utrecht University
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) to submit a proposal or to find out more about the series.
Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672
1st Edition
By Genji Yasuhira
January 10, 2026
Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht’s magistrates, under constant pressure from the Reformed Church, attempted to exclude Catholics from the urban public sphere. However, by ...
Painters’ Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam
1st Edition
By Weixuan Li
December 10, 2025
The art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam emerged as a competitive, multi-layered arena where artists of all kinds vied for a diverse and expanding clientele. How did this complex market function? And how did individual painters navigate this intricate system, making artistic and business ...
Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century
1st Edition
By Catherine Powell-Warren
December 01, 2025
At once collector, botanist, reader, artist, and patron, Agnes Block is best described as a cultural producer. A member of an influential network in her lifetime, today she remains a largely obscure figure. The socioeconomic and political barriers faced by early modern women, together with a ...
Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Art of the Butterfly: A Technical Study of Early Modern Lepidochromy
1st Edition
By V.E. Mandrij
November 21, 2025
The Dutch painter and naturalist Otto Marseus van Schrieck (c. 1619/20–1678) became famous for an unusual iconography that mixed characteristics of landscape, animal painting, natural history illustration, and still life: the sottobosco paintings. These artworks, which he developed during his ...
Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720)
1st Edition
By Lucas van der Deijl
September 10, 2025
A small group of freethinkers from the Dutch Republic played a key role in the major intellectual changes of the Early Enlightenment (1640–1720). In the wake of Cartesianism, their rationalist ideas transformed debates about science, theology, medicine, and political theory. This book studies the ...
Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic: Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Noorman, Feike Dietz
November 19, 2024
How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic's arts, cultures and sciences?, 'Objects' were vitally significant for the early modern Dutch Republic, which is known as an early consumer society, a place famous for its exhaustive production of books, visual ...