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Author Esser, Raingard

Title The politics of memory : the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / by Raingard Esser
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 364 pages)
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 208
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 208. 0920-8607
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Collective memory -- Netherlands
Collective memory -- Flanders
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Collective memory
Historiography
Travel
SUBJECT Netherlands -- History -- 17th century -- Historiography
Netherlands -- Historiography -- 17th century
Flanders -- History -- 17th century -- Historiography
Flanders -- Historiography -- 17th century
Netherlands -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Flanders -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Subject Europe -- Flanders
Netherlands
Genre/Form History
Early works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011048131
ISBN 9789004222045
9004222049
1280496398
9781280496394
9786613591623
6613591629