Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Materials / L. Cruz and W. Frijhoff -- Introduction: Myth In History, History In Myth / Laura Cruz and Willem Frijhoff -- \'How Great The Enterprise, How Glorious The Deed\': Seventeenth-Century Dutch Circumnavigations As Useful Myths / Donald J. Harreld -- The Orangist Myth, 1650–1672 / Jill Stern -- Myth, History, And Image In The Low Countries In The Sixteenth Century / Jac Geurts -- The Wise Man Has Two Tongues: Images Of The Satyr And Peasant / Jordaens And Steen and Kimberlee Cloutier Blazzard -- Emblematic Myths: Anneke’s Fortune, Bogardus’s Farewell, And Kieft ‘s Son / Willem Frijhoff -- International Law And National Existence: The Myth Of Strict Neutrality (1918–?) / Hubert P. Van Tuyll -- The Epic Story Of The Little Republic That Could: The Role Of Patriotic Myths In The Dutch Golden Age / Laura Cruz -- History And Myth Of Dutch Popular Protest In The Napoleonic Period (1806–1813) / Johan Joor -- ‘Neerlands Israel’: Political Theology, Christian Hebraism, Biblical Antiquarianism, And Historical Myth / Theodor Dunkelgrün -- Rembrandt And The Historical Construction Of His Conspiracy Of Claudius Civilis / Jan Blanc -- Index / L. Cruz and W. Frijhoff.

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In 1975, a group of Dutch and British scholars published a conference volume of collected essays entitled Some Political Mythologies . That conference sought to examine the political myth as an object of historical study, particularly in the context of the tumultuous and exceptional history of the Low Countries. Thirty years later, a more diverse group of scholars gathered to re-examine the history of Dutch myth-making in light of developments in theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the role of myths in national identity, moral geography, and community formation. The results of their efforts appear in this volume, Myth in History: History in Myth . The essays cover developments in history, anthropology, cartography, philosophy, art history, and literature as they pertain to how the Dutch historically perceived these myths and how the myths have been treated by previous generations of historians.