The Praelium Nuportanum by Isaac Dorislaus: Anglo-Dutch relations and strategic historiography
| Autor: | Jan Waszink |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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History
Battle Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Intellectual history The Republic 0506 political science 060104 history Style (visual arts) Philosophy Politics Negotiation Law 050602 political science & public administration 0601 history and archaeology Sociology Content (Freudian dream analysis) media_common |
| Popis: | SUMMARYThis article investigates the Anglo–Dutch scholar and diplomat Isaac Dorislaus's sole published work, Praelium Nuportanum (PN; 1640), on the battle of Newport in 1600. After presenting some new or little known information about the work, it discusses PN's intellectual context and concludes that the work is a reminder of successful Anglo–Dutch cooperation in the past, of Dutch indebtedness to English assistance, and the Republic's importance as an ally for England, all relevant to the negotiations running in 1640 for an Orange–Stuart wedding, and their backgrounds in the British Civil Wars and Anglo–Spanish–Dutch relations at the time. After the troubles ensuing from Dorislaus's Cambridge lectures on Tacitus in 1627, PN shows the author reconciled with the Court and the Laudian faction. With respect to style and content, PN appears clearly Tacitist in style, with many direct quotations from Tacitus, but this Tacitism operates more on a literary than a political level. Much of PN's historical content... |
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