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Tijd meten en dagboek schrijven in de zeventiende eeuw.
De relatie tussen innovatie in techniek en cultuur bij Constantijn junior en Christiaan Huygens
Rudolf Dekker
Clocks, watches, and the diurnal form in Early Modern Holland. Autobiographical writing and technical innovation in a Dutch family (Huygens)
This article makes the connection between the growing spread and improvement of clocks and watches, and the growing popularity of diurnal forms of writing, like the modern diary. This development can be traced to the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who invented the pendulum for clocks and the spring for
watches, and his brother Constantijn Huygens Jr, who during his whole life kept a regular and detailed diary. Both innovations, the modern clock and the modern diary, stemmed from a new sense of time. Both clocks and diaries were used to have a grip on time.
Het kinderdagboek als spiegelbeeldig universum.
Verlichte pedagogiek en de opkomst van kinderdagboeken rond 1800
Arianne Baggerman
The children's diary as a mirrored universe. Enlightened pedagogics and the rise of the children's diary around 1800
In this article, the first diaries written by children dating from the 1780s (in Holland authors include Otto van Eck, Abraham van der Hoop, Pieter Pous, Quirijn VerHuell and J.R. Thorbecke) are linked with advice given by modern pedagogues, especially of the school of so-called Philantropinists. Children should write diaries not (only) for themselves, but also for their parents, as insight into their child’s doings was regarded as essential for a good upbringing. This link, which was hitherto unknown and has not been studied before, was a great impulse for the more and more popular custom of diary writing in the nineteenth century.
De verbale traditie van een piëtistische geloofservaring.
De rechtvaardiging in de vierschaar der consciëntie
Fred van Lieburg
The justification in the court of conscience
Religious egodocuments, especially autobiographical conversion narratives, are not just written accounts of individual experiences. They originate from a complex interplay of theological traditions, oral communication (preaching, teaching and reading), and the personal appropriation of general conceptions of salvation. This is illustrated by the example of the ‘tribunal experience’, which in Dutch Reformed
Pietism was considered to be the final confirmation of divine grace. Derived from the Calvinist doctrine on justification by faith, the idea of a visionary experience of the forgiveness of sins was elaborated in Puritan writings, Pietist sermons and the accounts of godly people. Since the eighteenth century, these different modes of communication have shaped the tribunal experience, which developed into an oral tradition in Pietist subculture and a topos in Pietist autobiography.
Schrijven over lezen.
Het dagboek van Jacoba van Thiel 1767-1770
Jeroen Blaak
The diary of Jacoba van Thiel, 1767-1770
This article traces the actual daily reading experience of Jacoba van Thiel (1742-1800) as she recorded it in her spiritual diary kept between 1767-1770. Although diaries like her’s are rare, they are important, because only texts like these make it possible to incorporate the view of the reader in the social history of reading. According to contemporaries, and later to historians as well, women like Van Thiel read very traditionally, but her diary shows that this was only part of the story. On the one hand, Van Thiel can indeed be described as a traditional reader, but on the other Van Thiel’s ways of reading were also very versatile.
Het autobiografisch geheugen onder constructie.
De herinneringen van Wilhelmina van Pruisen aan haar Berlijnse kinderjaren
Lotte van de Pol
Autobiographical memory in the making. The childhood memoirs of Wilhelmina of Orange
Wilhelmina of Orange (1751-1820), born Princess of Prussia and married to the last Dutch Stadtholder lived a life deeply affected by war and revolution. In 1812, stranded as a refugee in her birthplace Berlin, and at the special request of her daughter, she began to write her memoirs. She started over and over again, and some eight drafts, nearly all confined to her childhood, have been preserved. This provides the unique possibility of examining the workings of the ‘autobiographical memory’, and the reworking of it in writing. In this article, the texts on her early childhood have been chosen for closer examination. These were dramatic years of war, flight and death in the family; but for the young girl the really traumatic
memory was that she was abused by her governess, without anyone in her family noticing or caring. In the memoirs, there is a uneasy mixture of retelling the story of this mistreatment, arguably fixed in the retelling by Sophie von Dankelmann, her second governess, and an authentic remembering of herself as a small girl, as she was asked to do by her daughter.
'Anders als mijn tijdgenootjes, anders dan gij allen?'
Kinderlijk zelfbewustzijn in negentiende- en twintigste-eeuwse jeugdherinneringen uit Nederland en Vlaanderen
Hugo Röling
Different from my peers, different from all of you. Children’s self-consciousness in childhood memories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Netherlands and Flanders
In speculations on changes in the self in the course of modern history it is generally assumed that conceptions of personality underwent profound changes. Autobiographies have been examined to look for evidence in the last few centuries. This article concentrates on memories of youth that were written in rapidly expanding quantities from the second half of the eighteenth century, as an expression of the
enhanced value attributed to childhood since that time. Have there been substantial changes in the way the emergence of self-consciousness is represented in memories of youth from Flanders and the Netherlands?
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