De Moderne Tijd - Volume 3, Issue 1, 2019

IMPORTING TEXTS FROM ABROAD Editors’ reuse of foreign historical texts in Dutch periodicals, 1780-1860 This article explores the ways in which the editors of five Dutch history journals and three magazines for general circulation copied historical texts from abroad, between 1780 and 1860. By comparing original texts with reprinted versions, we show that the editors’ work involved not only ‘passive’ duplication (reprinting in f Read More

EXPERTISE IN CASE FILES The practice of forensic psychiatry in the Netherlands, 1811-1930 Research on the history of Dutch forensic psychiatry has hardly taken into account how psychiatrists functioned in practice. This article, based on 485 court cases of (child)murder, rape and arson, provides an inventory of the role of psychiatrists in the courtroom. It distinguishes between three regimes of knowledge: a first regime i Read More

TRUE RELIGION AND STERN MORALITY A thematic-historical analysis of the sermons of Chief Rabbi Tobias Tal (1847-1898) The process of integration of the Jewish community in modern Dutch society was accompanied by a change of Jewish homiletics in both content and form. This article presents the case of the Dutch Chief Rabbi Tobias Tal with the aim of showing how Jewish homiletics changed in the second half of Read More

THE NETHERLANDS THROUGH COLOMBIAN EYES The novel ‘Una holandesa en América’ (1888) by Soledad Acosta de Samper In 1888, Soledad Acosta de Samper, a well-known writer and journalist in Colombia’s capital Bogotá, published the novel Una holandesa en América. This article presents an imagological analysis of how the Dutch and the Netherlands are represented in her novel, and discusses Acosta’s possible in Read More