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Stapel & De Vries
Leydis, Pauli, and Berchen Revisited Collective History Writing in the Low Countries in the Late Fifteenth Century* Rombert Stapel & Jenine de Vries International Institute of Social History & Durham University Abstract This article focuses on a generation of chroniclers from the Low Countries operating at the intersection of urban and clerical environments and how they worked together to produce new historiographical texts. At the heart are the writings of three of the most productive and well-known historiographers of this generation: Johannes a Leydis, Theodericus Pauli and Willem van Berchen. The interdependency of a specific part of their body of work, namely their Chronicles of Holland, will be studied closely. This will lead to a new proposal for the complex relationship between these and other related contemporary texts. From this the contours emerge of a community of writers, reaching much further than these three alone, which shared a common interest in historiography and exchanged texts, ideas and manuscripts. In each of their texts, the influence of this exchange is tangible, exhibiting the collaborative nature of their historical writings, rarely detected in the Middle Ages. Introduction History writing can be a lonely profession. The image comes to mind of a secluded writer, alone with only a library and a pen, working through a new creation. Medieval portrayals of writers almost always reinforce this notion. If one googles pictures of ‘medieval writer’ or ‘medieval scribe’, a vast array of analogous miniatures emerges of individuals sitting alone * We would like to thank our colleagues at both Leiden University and Durham University, in particular Hans Mol, Robert Stein, and Graeme Small, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their help in improving earlier drafts of this paper. -
The COVID-19 Pandemic and International Trade
House of Commons International Trade Committee The COVID-19 pandemic and international trade First Report of Session 2019–21 Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 July 2020 HC 286 Published on 29 July 2020 by authority of the House of Commons The International Trade Committee The International Trade Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for International Trade and its associated public bodies. Current membership Angus Brendan MacNeil MP (Scottish National Party, Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (Chair) Robert Courts MP (Conservative, Witney) Mark Garnier MP (Conservative, Wyre Forest) Paul Girvan MP (DUP, South Antrim) Sir Mark Hendrick MP (Labour, Preston) Mark Menzies MP (Conservative, Fylde) Taiwo Owatemi MP (Labour, Coventry North West) Martin Vickers MP (Conservative, Cleethorpes) Matt Western MP (Labour, Warwick and Leamington) Mick Whitley MP (Labour, Birkenhead) Craig Williams MP (Conservative, Montgomeryshire) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2020. This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament Licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/copyright. Committee reports are published on the Committee’s website at www.parliament.uk/tradecom and in print by Order of the House. Evidence relating to this report is published on the inquiry publications page of the Committee’s website. -
Living with Rivers Netherland Plain Polder Farmers' Migration to and Through the River Flatlands of the States of New York and New Jersey Part I
Living with Rivers Netherland Plain Polder Farmers' Migration to and through the River Flatlands of the states of New York and New Jersey Part I 1 Foreword Esopus, Kinderhook, Mahwah, the summer of 2013 showed my wife and me US farms linked to 1700s. The key? The founding dates of the Dutch Reformed Churches. We followed the trail of the descendants of the farmers from the Netherlands plain. An exci- ting entrance into a world of historic heritage with a distinct Dutch flavor followed, not mentioned in the tourist brochures. Could I replicate this experience in the Netherlands by setting out an itinerary along the family names mentioned in the early documents in New Netherlands? This particular key opened a door to the iconic world of rectangular plots cultivated a thousand year ago. The trail led to the first stone farms laid out in ribbons along canals and dikes, as they started to be built around the turn of the 15th to the 16th century. The old villages mostly on higher grounds, on cross roads, the oldest churches. As a sideline in a bit of fieldwork around the émigré villages, family names literally fell into place like Koeymans and van de Water in Schoonrewoerd or Cool in Vianen, or ten Eyck in Huinen. Some place names also fell into place, like Bern or Kortgericht, not Swiss, not Belgian, but Dutch situated in the Netherlands plain. The plain part of a centuries old network, as landscaped in the historic bishopric of Utrecht, where Gelder Valley polder villages like Huinen, Hell, Voorthuizen and Wekerom were part of. -
1 James P. Ward Military Pay and Taxation in Early 16Th Century
NOTE ADDED 1 October 2011: I submitted an earlier version of this article together with a letter dated 14 Sept. 2006 to the editors of a learned journal, and I was informed by email (24 July 2007) that a revised version which the referee(s) had advised on and approved would appear in the 2008 edition of the journal; quod non. My recent enquiries by email, including my request to withdraw the article, remain unanswered. Since I have referred in other articles to this one as “forthcoming”, rather than delay its appearance further I have chosen to revise it again and to publish it here in its definitive form of two parts. James P. Ward th Military Pay and Taxation in Early 16 Century Holland during the Guelders War Part I. Military Pay in Early 16th Century Holland 1.1. Introduction Historians seem agreed that the relationship between the Dutch Republic and its soldiers from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries onwards was exemplary in money matters. Writing on the reforms of the army which Prince Maurice and other princes of Orange carried out at that time, Jonathan Israel remarked that their revisions of many features of soldiering “placed a premium on the prompt payment of troops at regular intervals”. Their reforms, Israel added, were designed not only to improve military efficiency, but “no less important, to protect civil society from disruption by soldiers”. Important elements in the methods that the military reformers used were “tighter discipline and regular payment of the troops at relatively short intervals”.1 Frank Tallett in his study of war and society in early modern Europe wrote that discipline and cohesion within armies depended among other things on soldiers being regularly paid, “which was generally not the case”.2 Michiel de Jong re-emphasized the importance of regular payment of the troops. -
A History of Neglect UK Export Finance and Human Rights Briefing June 2013
A HISTORY OF NEGLECT UK EXPORT FINANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS BRIefING June 2013 Amnesty International A History of Neglect UK Export Finance and Human Rights Published by Amnesty International UK, June 2013 © Amnesty International UK London 2013 Amnesty International UK Human Rights Action Centre 17-25 New Inn Yard London EC2A 3EA Tel 020 7033 1578 A HISTORY OF NEGLECT UK EXPORT FINANCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Contents Executive summary 2 Introduction to export credit agencies 5 1 The international context 6 2 UKEF’s standards and procedures 10 3 UKEF – a comparative international perspective 16 4 UKEF resists transparency and accountability 19 5 UKEF ignores emerging UK government consensus 26 on business and human rights 6 Recommendations 28 TERMINOLOGY In November 2011 the UK Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) changed its name to UK Export Finance. Throughout this briefing we will refer to this agency as UK Export Finance (UKEF), except where its name is used in a quotation that pre-dates the name change. Executive summary The UK’s export credit agency, established in 1919, was the world’s first.I t is a government department operating under an act of parliament and reporting to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Background As the government department responsible for providing financial support to British exporters, UK Export Finance (UKEF) is a hugely influential body. However, its eagerness to help secure new overseas contracts for British companies often comes at the expense of human rights. Unlike export credit agencies (ECAs) in some other countries, UKEF does not conduct any human rights or environmental screening of support worth less than 10 million SDRs1 (£10m) or for less than two years. -
Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance: Support for Exports
A picture of the National Audit Office logo Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Department for International Trade, UK Export Finance Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance: Support for exports HC 574 SESSION 2019–2021 15 JULY 2020 We are the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits. The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinises public spending for Parliament and is independent of government and the civil service. We help Parliament hold government to account and we use our insights to help people who manage and govern public bodies improve public services. The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), Gareth Davies, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO. We audit the financial accounts of departments and other public bodies. We also examine and report on the value for money of how public money has been spent. In 2019, the NAO’s work led to a positive financial impact through reduced costs, improved service delivery, or other benefits to citizens, of £1.1 billion. Department for International Trade, UK Export Finance Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance: Support for exports Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 13 July 2020 This report has been prepared under Section 6 of the National Audit Act 1983 for presentation to the House of Commons in accordance with Section 9 of the Act Gareth Davies Comptroller and Auditor General National Audit Office 30 June 2020 HC 574 | £10.00 This report examines Department for International Trade (DIT) and UK Export Finance (UKEF) progress and performance in supporting UK exports. -
The Impact of Charles V's Wars on Society in the Low Countries. a Brief Exploration of the Theme
The impact of Charles V's wars on society in the Low Countries. A brief exploration of the theme Hans Cools Universidad de Leidem In the first half of the sixteenth century most inhabitants of the Low Countries must have experienced, in one way or another, the effects of warfare. Charles V, who niled the Netherlands from 1515 until 1555, was at war during nventy-three years of his reign. In seventeen of these war years, at least part of the miKtary operations took place within the Low Countries or cióse to its borders ^. In fact, no natural frontier protected the Netherlands from invasions by Charles's principal adversaries, the french kings Francis I and Henry 11. Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelderland, and later William von der Marck, duke of Cleves, JüHch and Berg, whose territories stretched along the valleys of the Lower Rhine and the Maas, constituted until 1543 useful allies of the French. If the two aMies co-ordinated their actions, as they did on various occasions, they could strike the Habsburg govemment of the Netherlands wherever they wanted. During the reign of Charles V the nature of military operations and the scale on which they took place changed dramaticaUy. Roughly speaking, the size of armies mul- tiphed by five. In 1523 a joint English-Habsburg expeditionary forcé, under the command of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, marched along the Somme valley towards París. This army numbered at the most eleven thousand men '. By the standards of the time, this was thought to be a formidable forcé. -
Ministerial Departments CABINET OFFICE March 2021
LIST OF MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Including Executive Agencies and Non- Ministerial Departments CABINET OFFICE March 2021 LIST OF MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDING EXECUTIVE AGENCIES AND NON-MINISTERIAL DEPARTMENTS CONTENTS Page Part I List of Cabinet Ministers 2-3 Part II Alphabetical List of Ministers 4-7 Part III Ministerial Departments and Responsibilities 8-70 Part IV Executive Agencies 71-82 Part V Non-Ministerial Departments 83-90 Part VI Government Whips in the House of Commons and House of Lords 91 Part VII Government Spokespersons in the House of Lords 92-93 Part VIII Index 94-96 Information contained in this document can also be found on Ministers’ pages on GOV.UK and: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-ministers-and-responsibilities 1 I - LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister; First Lord of the Treasury; Minister for the Civil Service and Minister for the Union The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP Chancellor of the Exchequer The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs; First Secretary of State The Rt Hon Priti Patel MP Secretary of State for the Home Department The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP Minister for the Cabinet Office; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice The Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP Secretary of State for Defence The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP COP26 President Designate The Rt Hon -
Belanda Sejarah Ringkas
Belanda Sejarah Ringkas Yusuf Wibisono <[email protected]> Des'2019 (c) ilmuiman.net. All rights reserved. *** Jadulnya Jadul Kira-kira 2000 sebelum masehi, mulai diyakini di daerah yang sekarang negeri Belanda itu ada komunitas Hilversum. Sebelum itu, kurang lebih gelap gulita. Mungkin ada sih penduduk di sana, tapi tidak tercatat sejarah. Lebih maju dikit ke tahun 1500SM, dikenal komunitas Elp, agak di utara, ko-eksis dengan Hilversum di tengah-selatan. Proto-Frysians muncul di pesisir di sekitar 1000SM. Dan pada 500SM, yang paling eksis itu tiga: Elp, Frisian, dan Hallstatt. Hilversum di tengah-selatan tidak begitu dominan lagi, kesilep Hallstatt. Dan makin lama, kesilep lagi Hallstatt-nya. Yang meluas itu Frisian dan Elp. Sampai kemudian, berbaur dengan suku-suku Germanic, dan gampangnya ya udah.. Germanic dan Frisian itulah yang paling eksis pada sektiar tahun 100SM. Sekitaran 50SM, daerah di selatannya Belanda, dicaplok Romawi (Gallia). Awalnya tidak langsung bersinggungan dengan wilayah suku-suku Germanik, tapi di sekitar era Julius Caesar.. jadi berbatasan langsung yaitu di sekitar 50SM. Jebret.. terus 12SM.. seluruh tanah Belanda kecaplok Roman Empire. Kecuali pulau-pulau terpencilnya di tengah laut.. sampai sekitar tahun 9M. Jadilah, negeri itu muncul di blantika sejarah dunia, sampai sekarang. Alkisah, di tahun 9M itu, suku-suku Germanic dapet lagi daerah di utara (dikit, nggak semua). Lalu kelompok Frisian menjelma jadi Frisii.. dapet wilayah bebas di pesisir tempat leluhur mereka. Frisian ini kayak merek susu kental manis toh? Frisian flag. Ya memang sama sih. Tahun 46-47M meluas. Wilayah Frisii dan suku-suku Germanic Chauci, sampai seluas Belanda sekaranglah kurang lebih areanya, sampai muncul Tubani, Saxons, Chamavi, Salian Franks, dari sempalan suku Germanic Chauci, tapi di pesisir, Frisii solid utuh satu terus sampai 250M. -
2020 Report to the U.S. Congress on Global Export Credit Competition for Calendar Year 2019
REPORT TO THE U.S. CONGRESS ON GLOBAL EXPORT CREDIT COMPETITION June 2021 For the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 Responding to Challenges of COVID-19 in 2020 EXIM Vision Keeping America Strong: Empowering U.S. Businesses and Workers to Compete Globally Table of Contents Board of Directors and Advisory Committee Status ........................................................................................................2 From the First Vice President and Vice Chairman (Acting) .............................................................................................3 EXIM 2020-2021 Advisory Committee Statement on the EXIM Competitiveness Report ................................6 2020-2021 EXIM Advisory Committee Members .......................................................................................................... 15 2020-2021 EXIM Chairman's Council on China Competition Members .................................................................. 16 2020-2021 EXIM Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee Members ...................................................................17 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Section A: Trends in Official Medium- and Long-term (MLT) -
UK Export Finance – Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 Export Credits Guarantee Department (UK Export Finance) Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 Annual Report presented to Parliament pursuant to section 7(5) of the Export and Investment Guarantees Act 1991. Accounts presented to the House of Commons pursuant to section 6(4) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000. Accounts presented to the House of Lords by Command of Her Majesty. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 22 June 2021. This is part of a series of departmental publications which, along with the Main Estimates 2020-21, the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2020-21, and the Supply Estimates 2020-21: Supplementary Budgetary Information, present the government’s outturn for 2020-21 and planned expenditure for 2021-22. HC 400 © Crown copyright 2021 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at gov.uk/official-documents. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected]. ISBN 978-1-5286-2680-4 CCS0621723900 06/21 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum. Printed in the UK by the APS Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. In loving memory of Robin -
Corporate Structure and Governance of Export Credit Agencies: a Ukef Overview
Financial Law No. 18 (2)/2020 Review UNIVERSITY OF GDAŃSK • MASARYK UNIVERSITY • PAVEL JOZEF ŠAFÁRIK UNIVERSITY • UNIVERSITY OF VORONEZH http://www.ejournals.eu/FLR ∗ WAEL SAGHIR CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE OF EXPORT CREDIT AGENCIES: A UKEF OVERVIEW Abstract Export Credit Agencies have been playing an increasing role in promoting international trade and foreign investment. These agencies differ in their ownership structure and in their governance. Similarly, the importance of applying proper corporate governance has been increasing rapidly. Profit and non-profit institutions are being under pressure to protect shareholders’ interest and employees’ rights and to act in a responsible manner without being all about blind-folded profit maximization. For that, this paper thoroughly examines the ownership structure and governance of the UK Export Finance (UKEF) and how it adheres by corporate governance rules. The paper, through analyzing primary and secondary data, aims to emphasize that there is room for improvement in the current corporate governance model followed by the UKEF. Key words: Corporate Governance, Export Credit Agencies, Corporate Structure JEL Classification: L32 ∗ PhD. Junior Fellow and Lead for the International Trade and Finance Think Tank and Visiting Lecturer in the United Kingdom. International Consultant with active membership in the Society of Legal Scholars, London Court of International Arbitration and the Swiss Arbitration Association under 40. Expert in international business and financial law. Contact email: [email protected]. Corporate Structure and Governance… 2 1. Introduction Foreign investment and international trade are increasingly playing a role in stimulating national and international economies. Many exporting states saw in the creation of these agencies a mean in which these agencies and opportunity to allow exporters and investors reach international markets that were once deemed too risky for them.