Exile Memories and the Dutch Revolt : The Narrated Diaspora, 1550 - 1750.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- The Revelation of the Past -- Memories and the Continuation of the Diaspora -- Migration and Memory -- Transmigration and Its Multiple Ties -- Diasporic Imagination and Patriotic Discourse -- Exile Memories and Their Changing Meanings -- Chapter 1 Imagining the Diaspora -- The Formation of Diaspora Narratives -- In Defense of the Diaspora -- 'Exile Theology' and Confessional Identity -- Making Sense of Exile -- Punishing the Wicked-Chastising the Elect -- Exile and Persecution as the Marks of God's True Children -- Exile as God's Command -- At Home in the Diaspora -- Chapter 2 Recapturing the patria -- Memory and the Anticipation of the Future -- 'Hot' and 'Cold' Memory -- Keeping the Past Alive -- Exile and the Reclaiming of the Homeland -- 'Memoria Magistra Vita' -- Remapping the Netherlands -- Chapter 3 Strangers, Burghers, Patriots -- Re-Imagining Southern Netherlandish Identity in the Exile Towns -- The Social and Political Position of Southern Migrants in the Dutch Republic -- Leiden and Haarlem as Exile Towns -- Haarlem and the Memory of the London Martyrs -- Remembering Flemish Radicalism -- Rich or Poor Immigrants? -- Memory as 'A Salutary Warning' -- Managing Counter-Memory -- Disseminating Inclusive Exile Identities -- Inscribing Migrant Memories into the Local Memory Canon -- Fragmentary Discourses -- Chapter 4 The Reinvention of Family History -- Family Memories and the Change of Generations -- Family Memories between the Diaspora and Host Societies -- Reinventing Family History -- The Geographical Re-Imagination of the Family Past -- Permeable Memories -- Chapter 5 Ancient Landmarks of the Fathers: Maintaining Old Networks -- In Pursuit of a Fleeing Horseman -- At Home, Here and Abroad -- Maintaining Ties.

The Stranger Churches and the Continuation of Diasporic Networks -- Southern Institutions in the Dutch Republic -- Chapter 6 Godly Wanderers: Exile Memories and New Cultures of Religious Exclusivism -- Pilgrims behind the Fiery Column -- Puritanism and the Fashioning of Transnational Identities -- London: Cultivating the Model Church -- Frankfurt: Trans-Confessional Pietism and Diasporic Networks -- Building the New Jerusalem-Frankfurt and the 'Holy Experiment' -- 'The Trying Fires of Persecution' -- Conclusion: Permeable Memories -- Bibliography -- List of Archival Sources -- List of Printed Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index.

Author Johannes Müller shows how early modern Netherlandish migrants and their descendants commemorated war and persecution and cultivated new religious and political identities in the Dutch Republic, England and Germany.

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