The Politics of Memory: The Writing of Partition in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries

Esser, Raingard

ISBN 10: 9004208070 / ISBN 13: 9789004208070

Published by Leiden: Brill, 2012

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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 208. xi, 364 pp. Hardback with laminated pictorial boards. Unread, as new. New list price: $163.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of Memory: The Writing of Partition in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries
• Publisher: Leiden: Brill
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004208070
• ISBN 13: 9789004208070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 century. It examines different strategies that chorographers developed to make sense of the recent and more remote past. It also looks at the development of different historiographical traditions in the Protestant North and the Catholic South and thus contributes to the current research interest in the history of historiography, cultures of memory and identity formation.

About the Author

Raingard Esser, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval and Modern History, University of Cologne, is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Groningen. She has published extensively on early modern urban and regional identity including Frontiers, Regions and Identities in Europe (Pisa University Press, 2009).