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Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 149
‘Nationalism’ may be a modern phenomenon, but national identities are not. 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 – and are an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.
Robert Stein is Lecturer in Medieval history at Leiden University. His main fields of interest are State-formation and the development of national identities in the Burgundian Low Countries.
Judith Pollmann is professor in history and culture of the Dutch Republic at Leiden University. She has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of the early modern Netherlands. She is currently directing the VICI-project “Tales of the Revolt: Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1750”.
Judith Pollmann is professor in history and culture of the Dutch Republic at Leiden University. She has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of the early modern Netherlands. She is currently directing the VICI-project “Tales of the Revolt: Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1750”.
Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Introduction, Robert Stein
1. The dynamics of national identity in the later Middle Ages, Peter Hoppenbrouwers
2. An urban network in the Low Countries. A cultural approach, Robert Stein
3. The imagined community of Friesland in the late Middle Ages, Justine Smithuis
4. The functions of the late medieval Brabantine legend of Brabon, Sjoerd Bijker
5. Against Burgundy. The appeal of Germany in the duchy of Guelders, Aart Noordzij
6. The Habsburg theatre state. Court, city and the performance of identity in the early modern Southern Low Countries, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
7. War and identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477-1559, Steven Gunn
8. War propaganda, literature and national identity in Renaissance France, c.1490-1560, David Potter
9. The city defeated and defended. Civism as political identity in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands, Peter Arnade
10. In defence of the common fatherland. Patriotism and liberty in the Low Countries, 1555-1576, Alastair Duke
11. No Man’s Land. Reinventing Netherlandish Identities, 1585-1621, Judith Pollmann
12. ‘Lands’ and ‘Fatherlands’. Changes in the plurality of allegiances in the sixteenth century Holy Roman Empire, Robert von Friedeburg
Index
List of illustrations
Introduction, Robert Stein
1. The dynamics of national identity in the later Middle Ages, Peter Hoppenbrouwers
2. An urban network in the Low Countries. A cultural approach, Robert Stein
3. The imagined community of Friesland in the late Middle Ages, Justine Smithuis
4. The functions of the late medieval Brabantine legend of Brabon, Sjoerd Bijker
5. Against Burgundy. The appeal of Germany in the duchy of Guelders, Aart Noordzij
6. The Habsburg theatre state. Court, city and the performance of identity in the early modern Southern Low Countries, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
7. War and identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477-1559, Steven Gunn
8. War propaganda, literature and national identity in Renaissance France, c.1490-1560, David Potter
9. The city defeated and defended. Civism as political identity in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands, Peter Arnade
10. In defence of the common fatherland. Patriotism and liberty in the Low Countries, 1555-1576, Alastair Duke
11. No Man’s Land. Reinventing Netherlandish Identities, 1585-1621, Judith Pollmann
12. ‘Lands’ and ‘Fatherlands’. Changes in the plurality of allegiances in the sixteenth century Holy Roman Empire, Robert von Friedeburg
Index
All those interested in the history of nationalism and national identities, as well as in state formation and the history of the Burgundian and Habsburg Low Countries.