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The editors of the seventh volume of Acta Historiae Neerlandicae
have followed the same lines as those adopted for its predecessor.
Studies have again been selected which throw light on the history
of the Low Countries, the choice again being directed to subjects
likely to be of interest to foreign scholars lacking knowledge of
the Dutch language. For this reason articles fairly general in
scope have been chosen: studies of local interest or concerned with
matters of detail have not been included. In this volume a wide
diversity of topics is treated. Included are studies in the
economic and social history of the later Middle Ages, and on
subjects in the fields of the sixteenth and early half of the
eighteenth centuries. There are two articles on the nineteenth
century Dutch statesman Thorbecke (1972 was the anniversary of his
death). And there are also contributions on the homeland of Erasmus
and on Dutch reactions to the publication of Darwin's Origins of
Species. Also included are surveys of recent historical
publications in the Netherlands and of those from Belgian
historians that appeared in Dutch. A group of English historians,
working under the guidance of Professor Swart, of University
College, London, has surveyed the former, this article being edited
by Mrs Alice Carter of the London School of Economics. The task of
the late Professor Dhondt, of the University of Ghent, in
connection with the survey of the Belgian contributions written in
Dutch has been taken over by W.
The five previous volumes of the Acta Historiae Neerlandicae
appeared under the auspices of the Netherlands Committee for
Historical Sciences. When in 1970 this Committee merged with the
Historical Society to form the Dutch Historical Society (Nederlands
Historisch Genootschap) an opportunity arose to rethink the aims of
the Acta's original promotors. Also this sixth and succeeding
volumes became the responsibility of the new combined Society as
above. The volumes will from now on be published at The Hague by
Martinus Nijhoff. From the early days of the Acta language barriers
were broken down, and interested scholars from other countries
could acquaint themselves with deve lopments in historical work in
the Low Countries hitherto published only in Dutch. The Acta thus
enabled discussion on Dutch historical topics to become
international. However, initially subjects covered a wide field,
not only of Dutch but also of general history, and articles were
translated from Dutch not only into English but also into French
and German. If sales can be taken as a guide, it appeared that
scholars were not finding in the Acta precisely what they were
seeking. Editors' expectations, and therefore their hopes, were, it
was felt, going unrealised.
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