{"id":41,"date":"2015-04-06T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsterdamnified.dutchdissenters.net\/wp\/?p=41"},"modified":"2017-11-24T01:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T01:32:36","slug":"reading-john-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amsterdamnified.com\/project\/2015\/04\/reading-john-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading John Taylor’s 1641 pamphlet using Voyant Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Taylor1870\"<\/a>“Amsterdamnified”\u00a0was a neologism created by the prolific English poet, public relations pioneer and pamphleteer John Taylor (1580-1653) in a short 1641 pamphlet, Religions enemies<\/em>. Taylor was a defender of the King and tradition who engaged enthusiastically in the pamphlet wars that were growing quickly in the early 1640s in the battles between King and Parliament. On the 6th<\/sup> and final page of Religions enemies<\/em> Taylor wrote that “Religion is made a Hotch potch, and as it were tossed in a Blanquet, and too many places of England<\/em> too much Amsterdamnified<\/em> by several opinions….” To learn more about Taylor and the context for his pamphlet, see the bibliography at the end of the post.<\/p>\n

Taylor is worth highlighting in large part because he provided a clear, effective statement of a very widely held 17th<\/sup>-century view on the dangers of innovation, diversity and toleration. In addition to Religions enemies<\/em>, he also wrote a large number of other noteworthy works. We are including title page images from two more pamphlets from about the same period as the 1641 pamphlet that is the focus of this post (note that Taylor reused the image from Mad fashions<\/em> in his more famous 1647 pamphlet The world turn’d upside down<\/em>). All three images are from the 1870 edition of Taylor’s works.<\/p>\n