Memory wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
"The Revolt in the Netherlands erupted in 1566 and tore apart the Low Countries. In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how public memories of the Revolt in the Habsburg Netherlands in the South and the Dutch Republic in the North diverged and became the ob...
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Language: | English |
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Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2015
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Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions (190)
Year: 2015 |
Reviews: | [Rezension von: Steen, Jasper van der, Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700] (2016) (Dieleman, Kyle J.)
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Series/Journal: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
190 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Netherlands
/ Netherlands (Süd)
/ Eighty Years' War
/ Collective memory
/ Regional identity
/ History 1566-1700
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Further subjects: | B
Collective Memory (Benelux countries)
B Social Change (Benelux countries) History B Regionalism (Benelux countries) History B Nationalism (Benelux countries) History B Belgium History 1555-1648 B War and society (Benelux countries) 17th century B Netherlands History Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648 B Thesis |
Summary: | "The Revolt in the Netherlands erupted in 1566 and tore apart the Low Countries. In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how public memories of the Revolt in the Habsburg Netherlands in the South and the Dutch Republic in the North diverged and became the objects of fierce contestation in domestic political struggles, on both sides of the border and throughout the seventeenth century. Against widespread assumptions about the supposed modernity of cultural memory Memory Wars argues that early modern public memory did not require the presence of state actors, nationalism and modern mass media in order to play a role of political importance in both North and South"-- "The Revolt in the Netherlands erupted in 1566 and tore apart the Low Countries. In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how public memories of the Revolt in the Habsburg Netherlands in the South and the Dutch Republic in the North diverged and became the objects of fierce contestation in domestic political struggles, on both sides of the border and throughout the seventeenth century. Against widespread assumptions about the supposed modernity of cultural memory Memory Wars argues that early modern public memory did not require the presence of state actors, nationalism and modern mass media in order to play a role of political importance in both North and South"-- |
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Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. 299 - 346 |
ISBN: | 9004300481 |