Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World

This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still relevant today.

A diverse range of expert scholars share new research in their discipline, ranging across technology, trade, politics, religion and the arts. Different aspects of this history of competition, alliance, migration and conflict are taken up by each chapter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader background and its historical roots.

Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing current research in multiple facets of the Early Modern World.

Sjoerd Levelt is Senior Research Associate of the Leverhulme Trust project The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, c.1050–c.1600, University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2012 for Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland. His most recent book, North Sea Crossings, co-authored with Ad Putter, tells the story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

Esther van Raamsdonk is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (University of Warwick), researching the politics of biblical translation and narrative in an Anglo-Dutch context. She published a recent monograph on Milton, Marvell and the Dutch Republic (Routledge, 2021). Before joining Warwick, she worked as postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded Networking Archives project. She has published in Renaissance Studies, The Seventeenth Century, Milton Quarterly, and Renaissance and Reformation.

Michael D. Rose is a Researcher Developer at the University of Surrey. He writes on the intersection of philosophy and literature, completing a Ph.D. on Wittgenstein, poetry and the inexpressible in 2017. Publications include ‘I will draw a map of what you never see’ in Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature (Palgrave, 2016) and ‘The Wittgenstein Vector’ (Kadar Koli, 2016). He is commissioning editor of Spindlebox poetry press and co-ordinates the Surrey Arts and Humanities Research Group.