Mw. Prof.dr. J. (Judith) Pollmann

Position:
  • Professor of Early Modern Dutch History
Expertise:
  • Early modern Netherlands
  • The Dutch Revolt
  • Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe
  • Early modern memory
  • News and public opinion


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2740
E-Mail: j.pollmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Vaderlandse Geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 1.05
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​history/​staff/​pollmann.html

Spreekuur / Hours

By appointment

Fields of Interest

The history of the early modern Netherlands and the Dutch Revolt; the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe and the social history of religion; the history of early modern memory, news and public opinion, autobiographical writing and humanism.

Curriculum vitae

Judith Pollmann studied history at the University of Amsterdam and Renaissance Studies at the Warburg Institute in London. In 1998 she was awarded her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam for a study of the religious development of the diarist and humanist Arnoldus Buchelius (1565-1641). From 1995-2005 she taught early modern European history at Somerville College and the University of Oxford. She came to Leiden in 2005, and was appointed professor extraordinarius in 2007. She currently holds a personal chair in Early Modern Dutch History. Since 2008 Judith Pollmann has been directing the NWO VICI research project Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700.  She is a member of the editorial board of Past and Present.

Selected Recent Publications

Catholic identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635 Past and Present Book Series (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011).


‘No Man's Land. Reinventing Netherlandish Identities, 1585-1621’. In Robert Stein and Judith Pollmann (eds.), Networks, Regions and Nations. Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 149. (Leiden: Brill; 2010)  pp. 241-261

‘Burying the dead; reliving the past. Ritual, resentment and sacred space in the Dutch Republic’. In: Benjamin Kaplan et al. (eds), Catholic communities in Protestant states. Britain and the Netherlands c. 1570-1720, Studies in early modern European history (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2009) pp. 84-102.

Het Oorlogsverleden van de Gouden Eeuw, inaugural lecture Leiden University (Leiden 2008)

with Andrew Spicer (eds.), Public opinion and changing identities in the early modern Netherlands. Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions. History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 121 (Brill; Leiden, 2007)


‘Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands. Clerical leadership and Catholic violence, 1560-1585’, Past & Present, 190 (2006), pp. 83-120.

Work in progress

In the context of the VICI project Tales of the Revolt, Judith Pollmann is working on a book project entitled Memory before Modernity. More information on this, and the VICI project generally, can be found at http://www.earlymodernmemory.org

Ancillary positions

Past & Present
Member of the Editorial Board

Bibliotheca Thysiana Leiden
Curator

Centrum voor de studie van de gouden eeuw (UVA)
Member of the Advisory board

Trajecta
Member of the general editorial board

Zeven Provinciën Reeks, Uitgeverij Verloren
Chief editor

Institute for History
Last Modified: 09-08-2011