Virtual Interiors
The Virtual Interiors as Interfaces for Big Historical Data project focuses on the question of how we can develop and publish 2D/3D/4D user interfaces to the linked data of the Semantic Web in the form of digital ...
Research projects
The projects below are led and initiated by scholars associated with ACSEM. Each project studies Early Modernity, many of them take an interdisciplinary approach. With varying approaches and focuses, these projects contribute to our understanding of the past, and how it relates to the present.
Projects
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The Invention of the Refugee
What is a refugee and when, why and how do societies create them? This project seeks to answer these questions by focusing on the agency of displaced minorities in early modern Europe (16th-18th centuries). Principal ... -
The Female Impact. Women, Art and Household Consumption in the Dutch Republic, 1580-1720
This NWO Vidi-project (2021-2026) measures the impact of women on the Dutch art market in the seventeenth century by studying household consumption. Drawing on various sources, the project studies how women ... -
Freedom of the Streets
This NWO Vidi-project offers a pioneering approach to the study of gendered urban space. It enables for the first time to move beyond the public/private dichotomy and analyse women’s access to pre-industrial streets ... -
Networks of the Dutch Republic
The members of this research group explore, in a cross-disciplinary setting, the structures and activities of those networks in the ‘long’ Golden Age (1550-1750), their multiple relations to foreign networks, and the ... -
The Dutch Golden Age: Transfer and Transformation
The aim of this working group is to explore the cultural transfer to and from the Dutch Republic during the Golden Age by studying the world of learning, books, art works and other artefacts. Simultaneously, this ... -
Pretextual Strategies: The Rhetoric of Ethos, Literary Authority and (Con)Textual Identity in Renaissance Preliminary Texts
The research-group Pretextual Strategies focuses on two connected themes: (1) ethos in paratexts, and (2) strategies in argumentative prose texts. The main focus is on literary criticism and poetics, on examining ... -
Cultural Memory, Rhetoric and Literary Discourse
“Cultural Memory, Rhetoric, and Literary Discourse” is interested in and explores the intersections of these subjects in and beyond the early modern period and the Dutch Golden Age particularly. Recognizing the ... -
Early Modern Mobilities: Migration, Communication and Knowledge in the Early Modern World
The history of mobility is one of the most burgeoning fields of historical scholarship today. This research group brings together early modern historians interested in the driving forces, characteristics and effects ...