10 Why remember terror?
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Erika Kuijpers
Abstract
This chapter answers few questions with reference to the survivors of the sacks of the Dutch Revolt. First, under what circumstances did the survivors resume their lives. Next to what extent did the emergence of collective memory depend on the existence of a normative consensus on what is, and what is not, an 'atrocity'. The sacks played a key role in later representations of the Revolt, especially in the Dutch Republic the breakaway state that emerged as a result of the conflict. The existence of canonical master narrative about the Revolt have enabled survivors of the violence to find a meaningful framework for their suffering, but there is very little evidence that the experience of terror created or supported civic identity. Over the past decades, much research has been done to explore how experiences of extreme violence are remembered, and how individuals and communities handle the memories.
Abstract
This chapter answers few questions with reference to the survivors of the sacks of the Dutch Revolt. First, under what circumstances did the survivors resume their lives. Next to what extent did the emergence of collective memory depend on the existence of a normative consensus on what is, and what is not, an 'atrocity'. The sacks played a key role in later representations of the Revolt, especially in the Dutch Republic the breakaway state that emerged as a result of the conflict. The existence of canonical master narrative about the Revolt have enabled survivors of the violence to find a meaningful framework for their suffering, but there is very little evidence that the experience of terror created or supported civic identity. Over the past decades, much research has been done to explore how experiences of extreme violence are remembered, and how individuals and communities handle the memories.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
