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Title Networks, regions and nations : shaping identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 / edited by Robert Stein and Judith Pollmann
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 149
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 149.
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
Subject Nationalism -- Netherlands -- History
Nationalism -- Belgium -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Nationalism
Nationalbewusstsein
Kulturelle Identität
Politieke geschiedenis.
Maatschappij.
Identiteit.
SUBJECT Netherlands -- History -- To 1384. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090997
Netherlands -- History -- House of Burgundy, 1384-1477. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090998
Netherlands -- History -- House of Habsburg, 1477-1556. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090999
Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091001
Belgium -- History -- To 1555. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012972
Belgium -- History -- 1555-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85012974
Subject Belgium
Netherlands
Niederlande
Bourgondische Nederlanden.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Stein, Robert, 1960-
Pollmann, Judith
ISBN 9789047444749
9047444744
1282951394
9781282951396