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Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands: Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

2007 · ref. R9-KKWF-50L4 — 2007 Brill hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. From the cover: Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries at least there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society with high literacy rates and good connections news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown the creation of the Dutch Republic and of the distinctive Netherlandish culture of the Golden Age. Contents: 1. Introduction by Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer; 2. Chapter One: Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt. Romantic History and its Sixteenth-Century Antecedents by Hugh Dunthorne; 3. Chapter Two: A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe by Andrew Pettegree; 4. Chapter Three: Cartography Chorography and Patriotic Sentiment in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries by Paul Regan; 5. Chapter Four: 'And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars'. Rumour and the Revolt of the Netherlands by Henk van Nierop; 6. Chapter Five: Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the Netherlands 1550-59 by Juliaan Woltjer; 7. Chapter Six: 'Superexcellat autem misericordia iudicium'. The Homily of François Richardot on the Occasion of the Solemn Announcement of the General Pardon in the Netherlands Antwerp 16 July 1570 by Gustaaf Janssens; 8. Chapter Seven: Resistance and the Celebration of Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Brabant by Guido Marnef; 9. Chapter Eight: Justus Lipsius between War and Peace. His Public Letter on Spanish Foreign Policy and the Respective Merits of War Peace or Truce 1595 by Nicolette Mout; 10. Chapter Nine: Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic 1568-1632 by Andrew Sawyer; 11. Chapter Ten: Public Opinion or Ritual Celebration of Concord Politics Religion and Society in the Competition between the Chambers of Rhetoric at Vlaardingen 1616 by Joke Spaans; 12. Chapter Eleven: 'Brabanters Do Fairly Resemble Spaniards After All'. Memory Propaganda and Identity in the Twelve Years' Truce by Judith Pollmann; 13. Chapter Twelve: 'Concordia res parvae crescunt'. Regional Histories and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century by Raingard Esser; 14. Chapter Thirteen: 'So Many Painted Jezebels'. Stained Glass Windows and the Formation of an Urban Identity in the Dutch Republic by Andrew Spicer; 15. Chapter Fourteen: Group Identity and Opinion among the Huguenot Diaspora and the Challenge of Pierre Bayle's Toleration Theory 1685-1706 by Jonathan Israel. Brill hardcover