Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis - Volume 131, Issue 2, 2018

Abstract Mercantile Communities in the Roman World. Networks, Cult Associations, or Guilds? In this article I argue that the recent focus on merchant and shipping collegia in the ancient Roman economy is too one-sided. Long-distance merchants and shippers needed networks to gather information and find partners. In some cases these networks were structured in closed formalised groups (as guild-like collegia), but in o Read More

Abstract The Escorial and Humayun’s Tomb in comparison. Shaping the dynastic past of the Mughals and the Habsburgs in the sixteenth century Royal tombs and monuments, such as the imperial tombs of India and the Escorial of Spain, are among the best-known monuments of the early modern period. This article compares the Escorial, which served as the dynastic vault for the Spanish Habsburgs but particularly glorifie Read More

Abstract A vanguard of social change. Political awareness of Catholic students in the Union of Catholic Student Associations and in Pax Romana, 1945-1963 In this article we reveal traces of national and international political engagement among Dutch Catholic students in the post-war period. Our point of departure is the reputation of Catholic students of the late 1960s as idealistic revolutionaries in the vanguard of political tur Read More

Abstract Catholic psychotherapy in the post-war Netherlands. Boundaries, gender, and authority in the Terruwe Affair In Dutch historiography the Terruwe Affair is at the heart of an explanatory narrative which presents the professionalization of religion-based mental health as part of a liberation of Catholics from the clerically-enforced moral regulations and requirements of their Church. The affair culminated in an offici Read More

Abstract The Dutch historical journal Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis digitized, 1886-2008. A content exploration as a plea for combining digital and traditional research methods After the digitization of all issues of the Dutch historical journal Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis from 1886 till 2008, this article explores the content of this digital collection by applying two easily accessible digital methods: keyword search and word frequen Read More

Abstract Beyond the Last Utopia. About the historiography of human rights Human rights is a highly contested concept in both current public debates and recent historiography. In this review essay the historiographical debate about human rights, in particular invoked by Samuel Moyn’s Last Utopia (2010), is analysed by discussing three recent monographs: Mark Bradley’s The World Reimagined (2016), Steven L.B. Jense Read More