Networks, regions and nations : : shaping identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 / / editors, Robert Stein, Judith Pollmann.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 149
• TeilnehmendeR: Stein, Robert, 1960-; Pollmann, Judith.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; 149.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 290 pages) :; illustrations, maps

‘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...

Table of 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.