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Amsterdam School of Historical Studies ASH

Drs. J.H.C.M. (Anne-Rieke) van Schaik

PhD Candidate
Faculty of Humanities
Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen
Photographer: Stephanie de Graaf
Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 15
Postal address
  • Postbus 94551
    1090 GN Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Biography

    Anne-Rieke van Schaik (1995) completed her studies in Art History (BA), History (RMA) and Book Studies (MA, cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. Since October 2022, she works as a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam on the project Navigating through Narratives: Story Mapping in the Dutch Republic (c. 1550-1700). She is a member of the research group Explokart at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, affiliated to the Allard Pierson and the UvA.

    PhD project - Navigating through Narratives: Story Mapping in the Dutch Republic (ca. 1550-1700)

    In the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, numerous so-called story maps were produced: maps in which narrative and spatial information are combined into a coherent whole, with the aim of communicating a story about current or historical events. This genre focused primarily on conflict and violence, including sieges, (naval) battles, military campaigns, and overseas captures, in the context of the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648) and colonialism. These cartographic visual narratives circulated in many material forms, including loose broadsheets, pamphlets, book illustrations, drawings, paintings, medals, and more. How and why did story maps produced in the Republic communicate, disseminate, and shape narratives about historical events? This project investigates the role of cartography in early modern public opinion, news culture, and memory culture, and develops a new narrative-cartographic methodology to analyze and interpret these map narratives. 

    Supervisors: prof. dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze, dr. Elmer Kolfin
    Affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), Explokart research group and Allard Pierson, Amsterdam
    Duration of appointment: 2022-2027

     

  • Publications

    2025

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (2025). Een 'wonderlijke' scheepsstrijd: Feit en fictie in nieuwsprenten rondom de Slag bij Duins (1639). Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 44(2), 23-39. [details]

    2023

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (2023). A Delta of Time: Claes Jansz Visscher’s Updated News Maps of Spanish-Dutch Battles in the Scheldt River Area, 1627-1640. Early Modern Low Countries, 7(2), 154-189. https://doi.org/10.51750/emlc18374 [details]
    • van Schaik, J.-R., & Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (2023). On the Thresholds of an Old Map: A Paracartographic Approach to Joost Jansz Bilhamer’s Caerte van Noorthollant. The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, 71(3), 212-235. Article 1. https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.17720 [details]

    2022

    2025

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2025). 'Odéon van den Nederlandschen roem': Het panorama van Waterloo. In A.-R. van Schaik, B. Vannieuwenhuyze, M. Griffioen, P. van Gestel-van het Schip, & P. van der Krogt (Eds.), Evert Maaskamp (1769-1834): Amsterdams kaart- en boekenuitgever in roerige tijden (pp. 76). WBooks.

    2024

    • Griffioen, M., & van Schaik, A.-R. (2024). The 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon, France, 1–5 July 2024. Imago Mundi, 76(2), 329-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2024.2435733 [details]
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). A cartographical plot twist: Floris Balthasar’s map of the siege of Sluis and its missing legend reunited. Web publication or website
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). The Phoebus Foundation. Caert-thresoor, 43(1), 30-31.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Verhalende cartografie in de vroegmoderne Lage Landen. De Zeventiende Eeuw , 143-150.

    2023

    2020

    • van Schaik, A-R. (2020). Trauma of triomf? De oorlogsdaden van Maurits van Oranje gememoreerd in het boek Den Nassauschen Laurencrans (1610). Simulacrum, 28(4), 16-22.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2020). Netwerk en zelfpresentatie in de Duitse stadsgezichten van Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia: Review van: Putten, Jasper Cornelis van. Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. Leiden: Brill, 2017. . Skript: historisch tijdschrift, 42(1), 75-77.

    2019

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2019). Politiek, schandaal en reputatie in de late Gouden Eeuw: het turbulente leven van Romeyn de Hooghe: Nierop, Henk van. The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708: Prints, Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. . Skript: historisch tijdschrift, 41(1), 88-90.

    2018

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (2018). Alle hoeken van de kamer: Kunsthistorische perspectieven op het huiselijk tafereel in de Gouden Eeuw. Simulacrum, 26(4), 27-33. [details]

    2025

    • Vannieuwenhuyze, B. J., Griffioen, M. T., van Schaik, J. H. C. M., van der Krogt, P., van Gestel-van het Schip, P., van Netten, D. H., & Storms, M. (2025). Evert Maaskamp (1769-1834): Amsterdams kaart- en boekuitgever in roerige tijden. (Kaarthistorie; Vol. 4). WBooks.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (2025). Oude kaarten als stille getuigen van koloniale geschiedenis. Kleio, 66(5), 12-15. [details]

    2024

    • van Schaik, A.-R., & Griffioen, M. (2024). Hoe lees je een oude kaart? Een steekproef uit de KNAG-collectie in het Allard Pierson. Geografie, 24(1), 6-11.

    2023

    • Vannieuwenhuyze, B., Griffioen, M., & van Schaik, A.-R. (2023). Oude kaarten lezen: Handboek voor historische cartografie. (Kaarthistorie; Vol. 1). WBooks. [details]

    2024

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Grensverleggers: Baanbrekende kaarten uit de Lage Landen, 1500–1900. Hannibal Books.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Cartografie en conflict in de Zuidwestelijke rivierdelta (1627-1640). Zeeland : Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, 2024(4), 72-79.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Pamfletkaarten: Kartografisch materiaal in Nederlandse pamflettenverzamelingen (ca. 1550-1650). Caert-thresoor, 43(3), 14-21.

    2023

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2023). De missigit van Kota Radja in 1873. Geografie, 32(6), 38-39. https://geografie.nl/artikel/de-missigit-van-kota-radja-in-1873
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2023). Een Middelburgse plantagekaart: Slavernij en Walcheren in Nederlands-Guyana. De Wete: gedaan aan de leden van de Heemkundige kring Walcheren, 52(3), 29-36.

    2021

    2025

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2025). Setting the Sea Battle: The Narrative Power of Maps Depicting the Naval Battle of the Downs (1639). Paper presented at ISHMap VIII Symposium, Paris, France.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M., & Johnson, M. (2025). Maps as Memory Mirrors: The Construction of a Historical Narrative in the Album of Willem Luytsz van Kittensteyn (1613). Paper presented at History of Map Collecting: Vienna, Central Europe and Beyond, Vienna, Austria.

    2024

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Analyzing early modern story maps: An interdisciplinary approach. Paper presented at The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon, France.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2024). Making History: Floris Balthasar Puts Dutch Victories on the Map (c.1600-1610). Paper presented at Journée d’étude: La carte « œil de l’histoire » (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), Paris, France.

    2023

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2023). Flying Maps: Maps in Dutch Pamphlet Collections (c. 1550-1650). Paper presented at ISHMap VII Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2023). Navigating through Narratives: Cartographic Storytelling in the Early Modern Low Countries (ca. 1550-1750). Paper presented at HNA Dissertation Forum.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M., Griffioen, M. T., & Vannieuwenhuyze, B. J. (2023). Putting the Fagel Resolution Maps back into Context. Paper presented at Unlocking the Fagel Collection, Dublin, Ireland.

    2022

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2022). Mapping Every Now and Then: Narrative Maps Representing Topicality in the Dutch Early Modern Period. Paper presented at Conference: Historians of Netherlandish Art, Amsterdam and The Hague.
    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2022). Reframing the Revolt: Pro-Dutch vs. pro-Spanish Story Maps (1609-1610) Reflecting on the Eighty Years’ War during Truce. Paper presented at International Conference on the History of Cartography, Bucharest, Romania.

    2021

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2021). Women and Children First: Gender, Flood and Victimhood in Dutch Eighteenth-Century Story Maps. Paper presented at The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA), Oxford, United Kingdom.

    2020

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M. (2020). De kaart en ‘het gheschiet’: Een narratief-cartografisch onderzoek naar de nieuwskaart als herinneringskaart. Paper presented at Boekhistorisch Forum IV.

    2017

    • van Schaik, J. H. C. M., Nijboer, H., & Bok, M. J. (2017). ECARTICO: A comparative analysis of the market for paintings in 16th and 17th century Antwerp and Amsterdam. Poster session presented at Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2017.

    Prize / grant

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (editor) (2018-2020). Simulacrum (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (27-8-2024). Summer School: Verhalende cartografie in de vroegmoderne Lage Landen. https://allardpierson.nl/events/summerschool-verhalende-cartografie/
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (1-7-2024). Analyzing early modern story maps: An interdisciplinary approach, The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (30-5-2024). Mercatorlezing: Kaarten die grenzen verleggen, Mercatormuseum. https://www.museasintniklaas.be/nieuws/mercatorlezingen-het-voorjaar
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (1-12-2023). Navigating through Narratives: Cartographic Storytelling in the Early Modern Low Countries (ca. 1550-1750), HNA Dissertation Forum.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (14-7-2023). Flying Maps. Maps in Dutch Pamphlet Collections (c. 1550-1650), ISHMap VII Symposium, Berlin.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker), Griffioen, M. (speaker) & Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (speaker) (22-6-2023). Putting the Fagel Resolution Maps back into Context, Unlocking the Fagel Collection, Dublin.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) & Keulen, M. (speaker) (16-6-2023). Workshop. (Un)Mapping the Enslaved: Narratives of Slavery on Dutch Colonial Maps of the Atlantic World, Ubbo Emmius Historical Conference, Groningen.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) & Griffioen, M. (speaker) (12-5-2023). Schouw: Leer oude kaarten lezen, Allard Pierson Museum.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (26-1-2023). Old News? Time, Memory and Conflict in Story Maps of the Dutch Revolt (c.1630–1640), The Warburg Institute, London.
    • Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (speaker) & van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (31-10-2022). Oude kaarten lezen, Allard Pierson Museum. https://youtu.be/5vikehQe11E
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (5-7-2022). Reframing the Revolt: Pro-Dutch vs. pro-Spanish Story Maps (1609-1610) Reflecting on the Eighty Years’ War during Truce, International Conference on the History of Cartography, Bucharest.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (3-6-2022). Mapping Every Now and Then: Narrative Maps Representing Topicality in the Dutch Early Modern Period, Conference: Historians of Netherlandish Art, Amsterdam and The Hague.
    • Griffioen, M. (speaker), Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (speaker) & van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (13-5-2022). Making a Handbook of Historical Cartography, ISHMap Symposium, Montevideo.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (25-3-2021). Women and Children First: Gender, Flood and Victimhood in Dutch Eighteenth-Century Story Maps, The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA), Oxford.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker) (12-11-2020). De kaart en ‘het gheschiet’: Een narratief-cartografisch onderzoek naar de nieuwskaart als herinneringskaart, Boekhistorisch Forum IV.
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (speaker), Nijboer, H. (speaker) & Bok, M. (speaker) (3-7-2017). ECARTICO: A comparative analysis of the market for paintings in 16th and 17th century Antwerp and Amsterdam, Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2017.

    Others

    • van Schaik, A.-R. (organiser), Griffioen, M. (organiser), Dym, J. (chair) & Parker, K. (chair) (9-12-2024). Arguing with maps, Amsterdam. This workshop is led by Katie Parker and Jordana Dym (Co-Editors of Imago Mundi). The workshop is jointly offered by the Huizinga Institute and OSK – (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://onderzoekschoolkunstgeschiedenis.nl/hi-osk-workshop-arguing-with-maps-writing-and-publishing-on-historical-research-related-to-cartography/
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (visiting researcher) (1-2-2024 - 30-4-2024). Leiden University Libraries Special Collections (visiting an external institution).
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (visiting researcher) (1-2-2024 - 30-4-2024). Leiden University Libraries Special Collections (visiting an external institution). https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/special-collections/fellowships/prior-fellows#2024
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (participant) (10-7-2023 - 11-7-2023). ISHMap II Workshop, Berlin (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (participant) (10-5-2022 - 11-5-2022). ISHMap Workshop, Montevideo (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Schaik, A.-R. (participant) (8-6-2020 - 17-7-2020). Universal Short Title Catalogue Summer Programme (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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