Dr Henk Looijesteijn
Profile
Henk Looijesteijn (1973) studied early modern history at the University of Amsterdam. He has worked, among others, as Assistant-Researcher on several projects at the Netherlands Economic-Historical Archive and the International Institute of Social History between 1998 and 2002, such as the project 'Risk, risk avoidance and insurance arrangements in the Netherlands since 1500', the History of Work website and the virtual exhibition 'Ondernemers geportretteerd'. Between 2004 and 2008 he was researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, where he wrote a PhD thesis on the life and thought of the Dutch artisan Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy (c.1620-?1664) (thesis defended 25 November 2009). He was awarded a short-term research grant by the Atlantic History Seminar of Harvard University in 2007 and he was co-organizer of the Florentine Winterschool 'Politics, Press and Public Debate in the 17th centuries. Anglo-Dutch Perspectives', 10-15 December 2007. From the end of 2008 until 1 may 2009 he was Assistant-Researcher at Leiden University in the project Civil Services and Urban Communities, 1500-1800. Currently, he is working at the IISH in the project Giving in the Golden Age, investigating the founding of almshouses by private benefactors in the early modern age.
Field of interests
Henk Looijesteijn is interested in many aspects of social, cultural and intellectual history, such as the position of religious minorities in the Dutch Republic, the impact of the Age of Exploration on Dutch culture and history, the development of early modern Dutch political thought, the political opinions of the early modern Dutch middle classes and the position and mindset of the early modern Dutch elites. He is also interested in local history and was editor of the Historisch Tijdschrift Holland between 2001 and 2004. He was secretary of the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis [The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History] from March 2010 to March 2011.Selected publications
Academic papers relating to the GIGA-project
Founding Dutch Almshouses c.1400-c.1800 - the current state of research. Paper for the 34th Social Science History Association, Long Beach, 12-15 November 2009
Founding Dutch Almshouses c.1400-c.1800 - the current state of research (Revised version). Paper for the European Social Science History Conference 2010, Ghent, 13-16 April 2010
'Charity seems to be very National among them'. Motives for Founding of Almshouses in the Netherlands c.1350-c.1800. Paper for the Voluntary Action History Society Research Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 14-16 July 2010 (won a shared second place for the New Researchers' Prize sponsored by the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP) for the best paper)
Other academic papers
Proposals for a Better World. Pieter Plockhoy's Transatlantic Quest for Patrons and Partisans, Florentine Winterschool 'Politics, Press and Public Debate in the 17th Century', European University Institute 11 December 2007
Between Sin and Salvation. The Seventeenth-century Dutch artisan Pieter Plockhoy and his Ethics of Work. Paper Fifth Workshop of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, Düsseldorf, 13-14 November 2009
Petitioning, colonial policy, constitutional experiment and the development of Dutch political thought. Paper for the 10th International Conference on Urban History, Ghent, 1-5 September 2010
(with Marco H.D. van Leeuwen) Identity Registration in the Dutch Republic during the Early Modern Period. Paper for the Workshop on the Comparative History of Civil Registration, St John's College, Cambridge, 7-10 September 2010
Journal articles (refereed, academic)
'Between Sin and Salvation. The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artisan Pieter Plockhoy and his Ethics of Work', in International Review of Social History 56 (2011), Special Issue 19, Karin Hofmeester & Christine Moll-Murata (eds.), 'Global Perspectives on Work: Ethics, Norms, Valuations, Ideologies 1500-1650', 69-88.
Journal articles (popularizing)
'De Zeeuwse jaren (ca. 1620-1654) van Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy 'Van Zierick-zee'. De achtergrond van een wereldverbeteraar uit de Gouden Eeuw' in Kroniek van het land van de zeemeermin (Schouwen-Duiveland) 35 (2010), 35-46
Books
(with Anne Doedens) (eds.), De Kroniek van Henrica van Erp, abdis van Vrouwenklooster (Hilversum 2010)
(with Anne Doedens) (eds.), Spaans Zilver. Het scheepsjournaal van Willem van Brederode, kapitein der mariniers in de Nassause Vloot (1623-1626) (Hilversum 2008)
Book articles
'Botanisch klatergoud. Opkomst en ondergang van de tulp als beleggingsobject' in: H.W. van den Doel & G. van Boom (ed.), In het verleden behaalde resultaten. Bijdragen tot de Nederlandse beleggingsgeschiedenis (Amsterdam 2002), 41-75, 214-215
Reviews
. (review of) Govert Snoek, De Rozenkruisers in Nederland; voornamelijk in de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw: een inventarisatie (Haarlem 2006) in: Doopsgezinde Bijdragen. Nieuwe reeks 34 (2009), 267-271
. (review of) John Gurney. Brave Community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution. [Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.] Manchester University Press, Manchester [etc.] 2007 in International Review of Social History 55 (2010), 135-137.
. (review of) Frans Thuijs, De ware Jaco. Jacob Frederik Muller, alias Jaco (1690-1718), zijn criminele wereld, zijn berechting en zijn leven na de dood (Hilversum: Verloren, 2008) in Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 7.1 (2010), 145-146.
. (review of) Ingrid van der Vlis, Ondersteuning in voor- en tegenspoed. 250 jaar Weduwenbeurs Doesburg (Doesburg 2009) in Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis 7.4 (2010), 87-89.
. (review, to be published, of ) Sjoerd Bijker, Mechteld Gravendeel, Bonny Rademaker-Helfferich, Rineke Verheus-Nieuwstraten en Piet Visser (red.), Wezen en weldoen. 375 jaar Doopsgezinde wezenzorg in Haarlem (Hilversum, Verloren 2009) in Historisch Tijdschrift Holland.
. (review, to be published, of) Albert Buursma, 'Dese bekommerlijke tijden'. Armenzorg, armen en armoede in de stad Groningen 1594-1795 (Groninger Historische Reeks 37; Van Gorcum, Assen 2009), in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis.
. (review, to be published, of) Egmont da capo - eine mythogenetische Studie. By Rengenier C. Rittersma (Munster/New York/Munich/Berlin: Waxmann 2009), in The European Legacy. Toward New Paradigms 17.3 (June 2012)
Other publications
(unpublished thesis) 'Born to the Common Welfare'. Pieter Plockhoy's Quest for a Christian Life (c.1620-1664) (Florence, 25 November 2009)