Between Remembrance and Oblivion: Negotiating Civic Identity after the Sacks of Mechelen (1572, 1580)
In 1572, Mechelen was the first city to be sacked by a Habsburg army during the Dutch Revolt. The Duke of Alba punished its citizens for having opened the gates to rebels. In 1580, the city was sacked again, this time by a Protestant rebel army. Being sacked acutely raised the question of what it me...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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The sixteenth century journal
Année: 2020, Volume: 51, Numéro: 4, Pages: 963-982 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAH Époque moderne KBD Benelux KBH Péninsule Ibérique ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
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B Dutch Wars of Independence, 1568-1648 B Memory B CIVILIANS in war B ALBA, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, duque de, 1507-1582 B MECHELEN (Belgium) |
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| Résumé: | In 1572, Mechelen was the first city to be sacked by a Habsburg army during the Dutch Revolt. The Duke of Alba punished its citizens for having opened the gates to rebels. In 1580, the city was sacked again, this time by a Protestant rebel army. Being sacked acutely raised the question of what it meant to be part of a civic community. In both cases, however, political circumstances made it difficult to communicate the memory of the violent takeover. Harking back to the so-called Spanish and English furies ostensibly meant commemorating a rebellious past. This went against the Habsburgs’ policy of oblivion—requiring reconciled cities to move on and forget about their experiences. To better understand how atrocity shaped individual and civic identity, this article examines the strategies that citizens used to make sense of painful memories in an unstable and divided political landscape. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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