Description |
1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 149 |
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Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 149.
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Contents |
The dynamics of national identity in the later Middle Ages / Peter Hoppenbrouwers -- An urban network in the Low Countries : a cultural approach / Robert Stein -- The imagined community of Friesland in the late Middle Ages / Justine Smithuis -- The functions of the late medieval Brabantine legend of Brabon / Sjoerd Bijker -- Against Burgundy : the appeal of Germany in the duchy of Guelders / Aart Noordzij -- The Habsburg theatre state : court, city and the performance of identity in the early modern southern Low Countries / Anne-Laure Van Bruaene -- War and identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477-1559 / Steven Gunn -- War propaganda, literature and national identity in Renaissance France, c. 1490-1560 / David Potter -- The city defeated and defended : civism as political identity in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands / Peter Arnade -- In defence of the common fatherland : patriotism and liberty in the Low Countries, 1555-1576 / Alastair Duke -- No man's land : reinventing Netherlandish identities, 1585-1621 / Judith Pollmann -- 'Lands' and 'fatherlands' : changes in the plurality of allegiances in the sixteenth century Holy Roman Empire / Robert von Friedeburg |
Summary |
The medieval and early modern Low Countries are a case in point. In this myriad of political and clerical territories, identities proved dynamic. Princes and rebels, soldiers and poets, all played a part in the shaping of new imagined communities. The essays in this volume show how regional and interregional identities developed, old ones survived, and novel ones came into being. They offer a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of (national) identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries a "" and are an important contribution to the on |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Nationalism -- Netherlands -- History
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Nationalism -- Belgium -- History
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HISTORY -- General.
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Nationalism
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Kulturelle Identität
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Politieke geschiedenis.
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Maatschappij.
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Identiteit.
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SUBJECT |
Netherlands -- History -- To 1384.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090997
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Netherlands -- History -- House of Burgundy, 1384-1477.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090998
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Netherlands -- History -- House of Habsburg, 1477-1556.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090999
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Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091001
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Belgium -- History -- To 1555.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012972
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Belgium -- History -- 1555-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012974
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Belgium
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Netherlands
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Niederlande
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Bourgondische Nederlanden.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Stein, Robert, 1960-
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Pollmann, Judith
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ISBN |
9789047444749 |
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9047444744 |
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1282951394 |
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9781282951396 |
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