The second issue of the multidisciplinary Open Access journal Early Modern Low Countries is now available online. Early Modern Low Countries is dedicated to the study of the history and culture of the Low Countries between 1500 and 1830. It is published by Uopen Journals and appears twice a year.
Early Modern Low Countries is an initiative of the Study Group Seventeenth Century and the Dutch-Belgian Society For Eighteenth-Century Studies. For information about the journal you can visit our website www.emlc-journal.org.
Articles
The Kite of State. The Political Iconography of Kiting in the Dutch Republic 1600–1800 Gert-Jan Johannes and Inger Leemans
Striving for Unity: The Significance and Original Context of Political Allegories by Theodoor van Thulden for 's-Hertogenbosch Town Hall Suzanne van de Meerendonk, Margriet van Eikema Hommes, Ester Vink, and Ad van Drunen
The Banished Scholar: Beverland, Sex, and Liberty in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries Karen Hollewand
The Political Rediscovery of the Dutch Revolt in the Seventeenth-Century Habsburg Netherlands Jasper van der Steen
United Under One Roof: Artist Painters and Coarse Painters and their Relations in Seventeenth-Century Leiden Piet Bakker
Book reviews
Ariane van Suchtelen, Quentin Buvelot et al. Genre Paintings in the Mauritshuis, The Hague Eddy Schavemaker
Claartje Rasterhoff, Painting and Publishing as Cultural Industries. The Fabric of Creativity in the Dutch Republic, 1580–1800 Angela Jager
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Michael Sweerts (1618–1664). Shaping the Artist and the Academy in Rome and Brussels Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert
Luc Panhuysen, Oranje tegen de Zonnekoning. De strijd van Willem III en Lodewijk XIV om Europa David Onnekink
Tom Verschaffel, De weg naar het binnenland. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur. 1700–1800: de Zuidelijke Nederlanden Christophe Madelein
Notes
Aron Brouwer and Marthijn Wouters, Willem van Oranje. De opportunistische Vader des Vaderlands Jasper van der Steen
Craig Harline, Jacobs vlucht: Een familiesaga uit de Gouden Eeuw Maarten Prak
Sophie Reinders, De mug en de kaars. Vriendenboekjes van adellijke vrouwen, 1575–1640 Marijke Meijer Drees
Books received