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- From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500–1700
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- 2017
- Published by: University College London
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This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history.
The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.
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- Half-title
- p. i
- Series information
- p. ii
- Title page
- p. iii
- Preface to the new edition
- pp. v-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-ix
- List of Figures
- pp. x-xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1. Latin and the Low Countries
- pp. 2-18
- 5. William the Silent’s statecraft
- pp. 46-53
- List of contributors
- pp. 286-294
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ISBN
9781910634899
Related ISBN(s)
9781910634882
MARC Record
OCLC
1229025346
Launched on MUSE
2021-01-14
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND