Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

Alistair Duke

ISBN 10: 0754656799 / ISBN 13: 9780754656791

Published by Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, 2009

About this Item

320pp. Ashgate Publishing Company, Farnham 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Glossy jacket with slight wear/stain on upper front. Black linen covers with silver spine lettering. Clean inside. Ex. library of the Ghent University: only one stamp on second page. Otherwise nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries
• Publisher: Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754656799
• ISBN 13: 9780754656791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.9 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Netherlands
  • Flanders
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his previously published essays - together with one entirely new chapter and two that appear in English here for the first time - this volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of states in north-western Europe that were united first under the rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period.

About the Author

Dr Alastair Duke was formerly Reader in History at the University of Southampton and is the author of Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Judith Pollmann is Professor of the History and Culture of the Dutch Republic at Leiden University. Andrew Spicer is Professor of Early Modern European History; he is also Director of the AHRC, The Early Modern Parish Church Religious Landscape Project and Head of History and History of Art at Oxford Brookes University.