UID:
almahu_9949700922302882
Format:
1 online resource (357 pages) :
,
illustrations (some color), maps.
ISBN:
9789004300491
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and Reformation Traditions ; v. 190
Content:
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.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Memory in the Making: The First Decades -- 2 Two Historical Canons -- 3 Dynastic Identity and the Revolt -- 4 A Contested Past -- 5 Stakeholders -- 6 Memories after Westphalia -- 7 Remediating the War -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9789004300484
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
