On the Representation of an Early Modern Dutch Storm in Two Poems
On 19th December 1660, a severe storm raged over the Dutch isle of Texel, causing severe damage. It proceeded to destroy parts of the city of Amsterdam. Both the sailor and merchant Gerrit Jansz Kooch and the priest Joannes Vollenhove wrote a poem about this natural disaster, presumably independentl...
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| Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572433 |