The role of alcohol in crime and its prosecution in eighteenth-century Leiden is examined in this thesis. The chronological delineation of this case study focussing on the eighteenth century is...Show moreThe role of alcohol in crime and its prosecution in eighteenth-century Leiden is examined in this thesis. The chronological delineation of this case study focussing on the eighteenth century is right on the cusp of the nineteenth century’s great civilization campaign against alcohol. This case study allows for a discussion of the relationship between alcohol and disorder prior to the century of the great temperance crusades. It is fascinating to see how far we can track this pattern back to the eighteenth century, when both production and consumption skyrocketed. The topic is multi-faceted, addressing the research question - What role does alcohol play in crime and how is it manifested on two levels, namely (1) in criminal behaviour and (2) in its prosecution? The goal of this study is to learn more about people's attitudes toward alcohol by focusing on the criminalization of excessive drinking.Show less
This thesis explores one of the major lacunae in migration history: what happened to the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who migrated to the Dutch Republic in the early...Show moreThis thesis explores one of the major lacunae in migration history: what happened to the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who migrated to the Dutch Republic in the early modern period? Immigrants constituted a large segment of the urban population: in Amsterdam around 1650 circa forty percent of the resident population was born abroad. Thousands of these immigrants got married in Amsterdam and had children. The lives of these children, but also of the (great)grandchildren, had not been studied until now. Profiting from recent advancements in the digitisation and indexation of the parish registers and the notarial archives of Amsterdam, this thesis analyses the processes of integration, assimilation and social mobility of nine families with a Norwegian or Danish migration background between 1660 and 1811. What was their process of integration like, and to what extent did they experience social mobility?Show less
In this thesis the author examines the differences between male and female witches in early modern Holland. This thesis analyses the terminology in early modern laws and literature on witchcraft,...Show moreIn this thesis the author examines the differences between male and female witches in early modern Holland. This thesis analyses the terminology in early modern laws and literature on witchcraft, as well as trial records on cases against (fe)male witches. It also analyses the differences in allegations against male and female witches in sixteenth-century Holland.Show less
