Clionauta is the new blogsphere project of our colleague historian and “pioneer” in the use of the WWW among Spanish history professors Anaclet Pons. This new blog on history aims to create an space for discussion and debate on contemporary history trends, news, publications, scientific debates and other related issues.
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The Spanish History Portal Artehistoria.com sponsorised by the Regional Government of Castilla Leon launched recently its own Youtube channel. The Artehistoriacom channel in the popular video sharing site contains a good selection of feeds on art, history and architecture.
Dutch history lovers will certainly appreciate the quality of the on-line catalogue of the Gemeentearchief Rotterdam. The site (entirely in Dutch) provides free access to several catalogues. If you are a maritime history lover… do not miss the opportunity to browse the “Notariële Akten” for amazing surprises. Printed or digitalised copies of these documents can be ordered (1.5 €/each) directly from the website.
Geschiedenis van Zuid-Holland (History of Southern Holland) is a web portal providing a series of useful information for historians on this Dutch province. The website allows also to query the provincial and local archives (free text search) among other features.
The Fundación Carlos de Amberes (www.fcamberes.org) has just published a monography entitled Banca, Crédito y Capital. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1709), Madrid 2006. The edition of this book has been coordinated by Carmen Sanz Ayan (Real Academia de la Historia & Universidad Complutense Madrid) and Bernardo García (Fundación Carlos de Amberes & Universidad Complutense Madrid). The book is in fact a collection of articles resulting from the VI Seminario Internacional de Historia, organised by the Fundación Carlos de Amberes on 12-15 December 2005.
My contribution
Iñaki López Martín: “Los ‘unos’ y los ‘otros’: comercio, guerra e identidad. Flamencos y holandeses en la Monarquía Hispánica (ca. 1560-1609)”, Banca, Crédito y Capital. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1709), Madrid, 2006, pp. 425-457.
After having updated recently my databases as part of my straatvaart project, I have noticed that the total numbers of Flemish and Dutch merchants established in the Iberian Peninsula between the late XVIth and early XVII century goes beyond the estimations made by E. Stols.
I have fully identified so far the following merchants operating in Castile and Portugal, namely between 1560s and 1600s:
- Iberian Peninsula: 627: [Seville 204, Lisbon 113, Sanlucar de Barrameda 53, Cadiz 46, Bilbao 34, Madrid 20, San Sebastian 18, Valladolid 12, etc.]
- Italian Peninsula: 74 [Venice 51, Genoa 10, Naples 8, etc.]
I hope to have ready an interface soon in order to allow interested users to ’sneak’ the work I have carried out during all these years. Needless to say, browsing my databases will not be free.
Map above: Flemish presence in the Iberian Peninsula 1590-1630. Elaborated by the author from Eddy Stols, De Spaanse Brabanders of de handelsbetrekkingen der Zuidelijke Nederlanden met de Iberische wereld 1598-1648, 2 volumes, Brussel 1971.
VOC Shipwrecks is a very interesting site that gathers information about more than 650 shipwrecks of the Dutch East India Company. Users can browse the database by date, name of ship, etc. Although the site has not been updated recently the information is very accurate.
Maritime Archeologie (Maritime Archaeology in Dutch) is a web project carried out by the Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed covering several maritime archaeology aspects in Belgium from shipwrecks and structures to and artifacts during the Medieval and Modern Period.
This site requires registration and it is mostly in Dutch.
Belgian History is a links portal in the first place. All the added links have two things in common: they cover a historical phenomenon within the limits of the current Kingdom of Belgium. Secondly, It adds news about historical events, happenings, and festivities. Finally, it deals and promotes local Belgian history.
Belgianhistory.be is written in English, in order to give as many people as possible access to this information.
After a few days in Southern France with Catherine and Inés, I am back in Lisbon again. I took the opportunity to visit Orange and had a closer look at the ruins of the Citadelle built by Maurice of Nassau in 1622. There was not much to see because the whole complex was blown up with explosives in 1672 by Louis XIV. The entire area looks pretty abandoned and deteriorated. However, it is possible to distinguish at least the ruins of a tower some ramparts, bastions, and the arsenal.
From the top of Maurice’s citadelle it is possible to have an excellent view over the Roman theatre which (by the way) seems to have changed more during the last century than during the previous 2.000 years.
It is midnight (00:11 if we want to be sharp) and I have just noticed googling that the University of Nice has published my latest article with a certain degree of nocturnidad y alevosía… No one has even told me… I have just discovered it like that (!).
Here is the reference:
Ignacio López Martín, “Entre la guerra económica y la persuasión diplomática : el comercio mediterráneo como moneda de cambio en el conflicto hispano-neerlandés (1574-1609)“, Cahiers de la Méditerranée, vol. 71 Crises, conflits et guerres en Méditerranée (Tome 2).
The title can be translated as: “Between economic war and diplomatic persuasion: the Mediterranean trade as bargaining chip in the Hipano-Dutch conflict (1574-1609)”.
Unfortunately, the abstract in English available in the journal’s website is not mine. I better prepare a good translation for them before it is too late for the printed version…!
Likewise, for some strange reason every single tables in the electronic version of the paper show bizarre font types, lack of accents and other formatting problems that make them totally unreadable. Someone should fix that before it goes printed!!!
The exhibition “Ibn Khaldun. The Mediterranean in the 14th century: the Rise and Fall of Empires”, to be held at Seville’s Real Alcázar Palace, aims to give visitors the chance to discover a period in history as decisive as the 14th century. It analyses the role of Seville and Spain at this time, looking at the events of the period, through the historical analysis in the work of Ibn Khaldun.
The Amsterdams Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw (Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age) hosted at the University of Amsterdam gathers a good collection of publications, articles and resources with particular interest to the Early Modern Period.
Unfortunately the information of this site is available in Dutch only.
On 25 April 1607 during the Eighty Years’ War, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar.
Read Motley’s History of The Netherlands version on that event from the Gutenberg Project.
A Concise History of The Netherlands is an initiative of The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and contains a brief account of the history of the Netherlands. Users can search for information under fifty different dates and seven separate themes. The dates have been carefully chosen to cover key periods in Dutch history. Brief details are given of each of them and various links can be used to obtain further information about the period in question.
The site is well presented and the contents are well organised. Certainly nothing special for the specialists, but an excellent idea. The site is available in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish
Steven van der Haghen, admiraal der VOC (1563-1624). An excellent biography and account of the voyages made by one of the first early modern straatvaarders.
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Welcome to Straatvaart.com.
This page is a personal challenge as well as the ground of an on-going scientific experiment that involves history and historians.
My name is Iñaki Lopez Martin. I am an specialist in Early Modern Hispano-Dutch relations. My personal and scientific interests concentrate fundamentally on the fields of history and computers, maritime history, and the use of Geographic Information Systems in advanced historical research.
I am currently testing wordpress in my site and considering its use for some of my future projects.
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