The VOC Boardroom A Forensic Investigation into the Built Environment
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| Publication date | 2024 |
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| Book title | Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic |
| Book subtitle | Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines |
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| Series | Studies in Early Modernity in the Netherlands |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages (from-to) | 171-197 |
| Publisher | Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press |
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This contribution focuses on the VOC boardroom in the Bushuis (armoury), the presumed meeting room of the governors of the VOC. Main topics concern the building’s location, the layout of the building and its construction history. The interior of the VOC boardroom is currently a reconstruction from the second half of the twentieth century. The building’s history can serve to understand this reconstructed VOC boardroom. Did those involved in the reconstruction investigate all the options? And which sources offer the most support to base the reconstruction on? To answer these questions, this essay discusses the location and appearance of the VOC boardroom, the material traces in the walls of the complex and the reconstruction of the boardroom
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| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.21155010.10 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048562787-008 https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048562770_CH07 |
| Published at | https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/315/edited_volume/chapter/4034466 |
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