State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age by der Weduwen, Arthur;

State Communication in the Dutch Golden Age

Series: British Academy Monographs;

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Publisher The British Academy
Date of Publication 2 March 2023

ISBN 9780197267431
Binding Hardback
No. of pages432 pages
Size 241x162x11 mm
Weight 782 g
Language English
Illustrations 79 images

Short description:

Selling the Republican Ideal details for the first time the political communication practices of the national, regional, and municipal authorities in the Dutch Republic. It is a ground-breaking study of how the early modern state sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with its political opponents.

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Long description:

State Communication and Public Politics in the Dutch Golden Age describes the political communication practices of the authorities in the early modern Netherlands. Der Weduwen provides an in-depth study of early modern state communication: the manner in which government sought to inform its citizens, publicise its laws, and engage publicly in quarrels with political opponents. These communication strategies, including proclamations, the use of town criers, and the printing and affixing of hundreds of thousands of edicts, underpinned the political stability of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.

Based on systematic research in thirty-two Dutch archives, this book demonstrates for the first time how the wealthiest, most literate, and most politically participatory state of early modern Europe was shaped by the communication of political information. It makes a decisive case for the importance of communication to the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the extent to which early modern authorities relied on the active consent of their subjects to legitimise their government.