Dr. G.H. (Geert) Janssen
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| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 4167 |
| E-Mail: | g.h.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Vaderlandse Geschiedenis |
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Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 102B |
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- Curriculum vitae
- Geert Janssen studied history in Groningen and Leiden. His PhD focused on clientage at the court of the stadholders in the Dutch Republic. He was awarded a number of grants and fellowships for postdoctoral research at Oxford (2005-7), St Andrews (2006) and Mainz (2007). He subsequently taught early modern history at the University of Cambridge. In 2009 he started a new project at Leiden, The Dynamics of the Catholic Exile Experience, which is generously funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VENI programme).
- Work in progress
- The Dynamics of the Catholic Exile Experience.Amsterdam, Cologne and Douai as Laboratories of Confessional Radicalization in the Dutch Revolt (1572-1600)
This research project addresses the flight, exile and return of Catholics in the Dutch revolt (1572-c.1600). It seeks to identify the different ways in which Catholic men and women articulated and negotiated their exile experience.
More specifically, the project proceeds from the idea that the experience of flight and displacement served as a catalyst for religious radicalization; that it encouraged Catholics in the Low Countries to transform their confessional identity and to develop a new, more militant group mentality. The anatomy of this process will be examined in three main Catholic asylum centres: Amsterdam, Douai and Cologne. The broader aim of the project is to formulate new explanations for the rapid mentality change of Netherlandish Catholics in the late sixteenth century, which had a profound impact on the history and separation of the Low Countries.
- Recent publications
- Princely Power in the Dutch Republic. Patronage and William Frederick of Nassau (1613-64) (Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2008). Dutch edition: Creaturen van de macht.Patronage bij Willem Frederik van Nassau (1613-1664) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005).
‘Exiles and the Politics of Reintegration in the Dutch Revolt’, History. Journal of the Historical Association 94-1 (2009) pp. 37-53.
‘Political Ambiguity and Religious Diversity in the Funeral Processions of the Stadholders in the Dutch Republic’, Sixteenth Century Journal 40-2 (2009).
