The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant
Summary
The Eighty Years' War and the partition of the Low Countries led to the publication of numerous chorographical works on towns and regions in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. This book offers a comparison of these histories reflecting political change and promoting new identities