Throughout history emotions and emotional styles have functioned as social markers to make a distinction between groups in societies. This essay introduces the concept of ‘emotional identity’ to reflect upon the underlying dynamic process in which both insiders and outsiders use (the handling of) emotions, or the lack thereof, to characterise a group of persons. Taking the allegedly phlegmatic temperament of the Dutch as an example, it explains how such identities come into being and are sustained, but also contested, reappraised and altered over time. It discusses the non-exclusive and inherently paradoxical nature of emotional group identities as well as some of the key mechanisms and patterns of adjustment that account for the long l...
This thesis comprises an investigation into the literary representation of national identity in the ...
From the 19th century on, textual comments to realistic images of people increasingly applied nation...
The article addresses affective piety as it developed in the late medieval Low Countries – the new, ...
Throughout history emotions and emotional styles have functioned as social markers to make a distinc...
In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Dutch Historical Society held its annual autumn conference. The them...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne Tijd Het najaarscongres van het KNHG...
From the nineteenth century the adherents of the Devotio Moderna were regarded as the archetypical D...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne TijdHet najaarscongres van het KNHG ...
A style of feeling known as the ‘cult of sensibility’ swept through Europe in the second half of the...
This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and...
The new history of emotions and the modern history of religion share the important question of the i...
De Moderne Devotie, de emoties en de zoektocht naar een Nederlandse identiteitDit artikel zet een kr...
In the course of the eighteenth century ‘national character’ became a central concept in the Dutch p...
The study is about differences and similarities between Dutch culture and cultures of immigrant grou...
This thesis comprises an investigation into the literary representation of national identity in the ...
From the 19th century on, textual comments to realistic images of people increasingly applied nation...
The article addresses affective piety as it developed in the late medieval Low Countries – the new, ...
Throughout history emotions and emotional styles have functioned as social markers to make a distinc...
In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Dutch Historical Society held its annual autumn conference. The them...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne Tijd Het najaarscongres van het KNHG...
From the nineteenth century the adherents of the Devotio Moderna were regarded as the archetypical D...
Bataafs Flegma? De Nederlanders en hun emoties in de Premoderne TijdHet najaarscongres van het KNHG ...
A style of feeling known as the ‘cult of sensibility’ swept through Europe in the second half of the...
This article proposes a combined perspective of Greenblatt’s famous concept of ‘self-fashioning’ and...
The new history of emotions and the modern history of religion share the important question of the i...
De Moderne Devotie, de emoties en de zoektocht naar een Nederlandse identiteitDit artikel zet een kr...
In the course of the eighteenth century ‘national character’ became a central concept in the Dutch p...
The study is about differences and similarities between Dutch culture and cultures of immigrant grou...
This thesis comprises an investigation into the literary representation of national identity in the ...
From the 19th century on, textual comments to realistic images of people increasingly applied nation...
The article addresses affective piety as it developed in the late medieval Low Countries – the new, ...