The politics of memory : : the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / / Raingard Esser.

The Eighty Years’ War and the establishment of two states in the Low Countries inaugurated the publication of numerous texts to support a distinct Northern and Southern identity. This study analyses urban and regional chorographies written both in the North and in the South in the seventeenth centur...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 208
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 208.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 364 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians
  • Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition
  • Nijmegen : city of the Batavians
  • Antverpiae antiquitatum
  • Faded glory : Leuven
  • Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen
  • Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders
  • On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.