Memory before Modernity

Abstract

The digital edition of this title is published in Open Access. Cover illustration: Memorial tablet in the façade of the so-called 'Spanish House' in the Holland town of Naarden, located on the spot of the former town hall. in 1572 during the dutch Revolt, 700 men from Naarden were gathered here and killed by Habsburg troops. The town hall was burnt down and rebuilt in 1615. (Photo Ralf Akemann). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Memory before modernity : practices of memory in early modern Europe / edited by Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, Jasper van der Steen. pages cm.-(Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, iSSN 1573-4188; volume 176) includes bibliographical references and index.

‘Help! Help! War wants to rape me!’: War and Rape in a Dutch Peace Play of 1678

“…In Dutch national memory the 'politics of victimhood' had always played an important part, and in the allegorical image of the raped virgin it finds a very eloquent expression. 91 The United Provinces created their own identity and claimed sovereignty by slandering anyone who opposed it. To return to Korsten, 'one can only argue that a body is autonomous and somehow sovereign when there is a possibility that it is not'.…”