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Building contracts in the Low Countries. Provisions concerning form and quality control in the construction industry (1350-1650)
This paper discusses how building commissioners in the Low Countries operated to obtain the best quality in form and construction when they commissioned a building to a contractor. In the Low Countries, building contracts have been used since the late fourteenth century and in many of them the quality of materials and constructions were prescribed. Municipal regulations and guild regulations were important in ensuring the quality of the construction, but despite these general provisions and statutory inspections, building commissioners usually inserted extensive clauses in contracts, which related to the quality of wood, stone, brick and other materials. Based on the investigation of approximately 250 building specifications and contracts dating back to before 1650, this paper shows how the development of quality descriptions for brick, stone, wood and other products changed over time. For carpentry and stone, known quality specifications date back to the end of the fifteenth century. Quality requirements for brick masonry date from the sixteenth century while for other materials they don’t appear until the end of the sixteenth century. Contracts also included provisions regarding force majeure and unforeseen circumstances. These provisions could relate to ambiguity in the wording of the contract as well as to procedures in case of sickness or death of the contractor. However, this did not prevent disputes, which on some building projects lasted for decades.
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Early Modern Women in the Low Countries
Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts.
Broomhall and Spinks analyse late medieval and early modern women's opportunities to narrate their experiences and ideas, as well as the processes that have shaped their representation in the heritage and cultural tourism of the Netherlands and Belgium today. The authors study female-authored objects such as familial and political letters, dolls' houses, account books; visual sources, funeral monuments, and buildings commissioned by female patrons; and further artworks as well as heritage sites, streetscapes, souvenirs and clothing with gendered historical resonances.
Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, the authors argue that interpretations of late medieval and early modern women's experiences by historians and art scholars interact with presentations by cultural and heritage tourism providers in significant ways that deserve closer interrogation by feminist researchers.
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The Hague as the disputed showcase of the Dutch State and Dutch national identity 1814–1917
The central question of this article is 'What does the urban and architectural design of The Hague tell us about the Dutch political and administrative ambitions in representing the state and national identity from 1814–1917? In this period many European capital cities grew fast, governmentas acquired new ambitions and new powers, and nationalism spread. Many governments developed impressive national building activities. In The Netherlands there was hardly any urge to emphasize the state power by transforming the urban landscape even in its governmental center The Hague. One reason is that the dominant liberal politics refrained from social and economic interventions. A second reason is that the various population groups had difficulty to agree on one national building style. Accompanied by a strong ideological discussion, the Dutch polity finally succeeded in producing a governmental architecture (from ca. 1880–1815) in the so-called Dutch Renaissance style. Although the different population groups (orthodox Protestants, Liberals, Catholics) could, each for their own reasons, accept this national style, its characteristics (picturesque, simple and small) lent itself poorly to public governmental commissions on a grand scale.
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