Judith Pollmann
Professor Early Modern Dutch History
- Name
- Prof.dr. J.S. Pollmann
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2740
- j.pollmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8489-1776
In the most general sense Judith Pollmann’s work concerns the question how people and societies in the past negotiated change. This has resulted in work on early modern identity formation, 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. Much of her work is based on the study of chronicles, diaries, and other personal records.
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Research
In the most general sense Judith Pollmann’s work concerns the question how people and societies in the past negotiated change. This has resulted in work on early modern identity formation, 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. Much of her work is based on the study of chronicles, diaries, and other personal records.
Through her work on early modern memory she became interested in the reception of new knowledge. She is currently working on the authority of different types of knowledge in the early modern world.
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 a 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 currently holds a personal chair in Early Modern Dutch History.
Between 2008-2013 Judith Pollmann directed the NWO VICI research project Tales of the Revolt. Memory, oblivion and identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700. With Henk te Velde, she initiated the NWO Vrije Competitie project, The persistence of civic identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848. From 2018-2024, and with Erika Kuijpers (VU), she directed the project Chronicling novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850.
In 2018 Judith Pollmann was elected to membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW). In 2020 she became a member of Academia Europaea, and became Foreign Member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten, Klasse der Menswetenschappen. From 2018-2024 she was honorary curator of the Dutch History team at the Rijksmuseum. She is a member of the editorial board of Past and Present.
Selected recent publications
Dekker, T.M.A.M., Kuijpers, E., Lassche. A.W., Lenarduzzi, C., Morante Vallejo, R., Pollmann, J.S., Dataset NWO project Chronicling Novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands 1500-1850. Published online at Zenodo 2024.
Kuijpers E, Lenarduzzi C, Pollmann J, Dekker T, Lassche A. Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries. Urban History. Published online 2024:1-26.
Fagel R.P. & Pollmann J.S. 1572: Burgeroorlog in de Nederlanden. Prometheus, Amsterdam; 2022.
Pollmann, J.S. The cult and memory of war and violence (book chapter) in Helmers HJ, Janssen GH, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age. Cambridge University Press; 2018.
Pollmann, J.S. Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. Oxford University Press; 2017
Pollmann, J.S. Archiving the Present and Chronicling for the Future in Early Modern Europe, Past & Present, Volume 230, Issue suppl_11, November 2016, Pages 231–252
Ancillary positions
Past & Present, Member of the Editorial Board
Professor Early Modern Dutch History
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Dutch and Colonial History
- Pollmann J.S. (16 March 2023), Commemorating conflict: on the politics of art and memory in the Dutch Republic. Art and Memory in early modern Europe. Masaryk University, Brno, Tsjechië. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (16 March 2023), Commemorating conflict: On the politics of art and memory in the Dutch Republic. Art and Memory in early modern Europe. Masaryk University, Brno, Tsjechië. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (21 April 2023), The long shades of paradigm. The Europaeum Spring School ‘Shifting Paradigms in Europe’. St. Anthony’s college, Oxford. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (9 May 2023), Hoe gevaarlijk is het geloof van de ander?: Geloofsvervolging, polarisatie en gedoogbeleid in Antwerpen 1500-1700. UCSIA Antwerpen, Antwerpen. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (26 May 2023), Feesten met een randje: vreugde en geweld in het Orangistisch feestrepertoire, 1600-1800. Paleis ’t Loo, Apeldoorn. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (6 September 2023), The reformation of method: reformation history as a laboratory for the history of knowledge. Reformation Studies Colloquium. University of Liverpool, Liverpool. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (22 September 2023), What’s in the air?: predicting the political future in the early modern Low Countries. Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (31 October 2023), Forgetting civil war: oblivion as a strategy for peacemaking in early modern Europe. Kyoto University, Kioto, Japan. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. & Janssen G.H. (25 December 2022), Op de vlucht voor de geuzen. Interviewed by Boer D.R. de for OVT Het spoor terug (Radio 1). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (2022), De kakofonie van 1572: interview met Judith Pollmann. Interviewed by Casteels I. & Belt C. van den for Holland: historisch tijdschrift: 64-71. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (9 March 2022), Geuzen en papen: [Seizoen 1 Afl. 6]. for Het verhaal van Nederland (NPO1). [interview].
- Te Velde H. & Pollmann J.S. (1 July 2021), Geschiedenis voor vandaag: ’In Nederland zijn we meer gezagsgetrouw dan we denken’. Interviewed by Chiara Mars for Noordhollands Dagblad. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (23 January 2021), Verborgen Verleden. Interviewed by Diederik Ebbinge (NTR). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (18 May 2021), Pompidou. Interviewed by Nicky Aerts for Radio Klara. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (31 October 2020), Hervormingsdag: dit bracht Maarten Luther meer dan 500 jaar geleden teweeg. Interviewed by Caroline Kraaijevanger for Scientias.nl. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (27 January 2019), 80 jaar oorlog . Interviewed by Jort Kelder for Buitenhof (NPO2). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (15 November 2019), Pacificeren of escaleren? Over de betekenis van de Synode van Dordrecht. : Historisch Nieuwsblad studiedag religiegeschiedenis 15 november 2019. Historisch Nieuwsblad, Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (2 March 2018), Nederlanders zijn lekker gek, maar wel gewoon. Interviewed by Floor Rusman for NRC.next: 10-11. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (23 May 2018), The Invention of the Netherlands. Part 1. Interviewed by Misha Glenny for The Invention of the Netherlands (BBC Radio 4). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (4 September 2018), Vergaderen, verbitteren, verzoenen: Over de betekenis van de synode van Dordrecht. Grote Kerk, Dordrecht. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (1 March 2015), Beeldenstorm. for Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd (NPO Radio 1). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (12 February 2013), Veel geloven op één kussen. for De Gouden Eeuw (NTR). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (27 September 2013), Mythes kwamen stad goed uit. for Leidsch Dagblad. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (19 January 2012), Hoe migranten de Nederlandse geschiedenis uitvonden [Lecture SPUI25, Amsterdam, January 19 2012]. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (14 March 2012), Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands [Historisch Café Amsterdam, March 14 2012]. [lecture].
- Pollmann J.S. (15 January 2012), Majesteitsschennis. for OVT (VPRO Radio). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (31 March 2012), Comment Cold Case findings Willem van Oranje. for RTL Nieuws (RTL 4). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (2 April 2012), Zijn bekentenis wordt er niet minder om. for Trouw. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (11 April 2012), Zestiende-eeuwse propaganda werkt. Interviewed by for Kennislink. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (3 October 2012), Leids Onzet. for Plein 5 (NCRV). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (25 October 2012), Judith Pollmann. for NRC Handelsblad. [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (10 December 2012), Gouden Eeuw. for VARA GidsFM (Radio 1). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (11 December 2012), De Gouden Eeuw. for NTR De Gouden Eeuw (Nederland 2). [interview].
- Pollmann J.S. (27 June 2008). Het oorlogsverleden van de Gouden Eeuw. Leiden. [inaugural address].
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