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From Revolt to Riches
  • From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500–1700
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  • Professor Theo Hermans Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at UCL and Director of the UCL Centre for Translation Studies, Professor Reinier Salverda Director of the Fryske Akademy (KNAW) and Honorary Professor of Dutch Language and Literature UCL, Ulrich Tiedau
  • 2017
  • Published by: University College London
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    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history. The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-title
  2. p. i
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  1. Series information
  2. p. ii
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  1. Title page
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  1. Copyright information
  2. p. iv
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  1. Preface to the new edition
  2. Ulrich Tiedau
  3. pp. v-vi
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. List of Figures
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  1. Introduction
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  1. 1. Latin and the Low Countries
  2. Jozef IJsewijn
  3. pp. 2-18
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  1. 2. Dutch national consciousness in early Humanist historiography: The Italian influence on Cornelius Aurelius (c.1460– 1531) and his contemporaries
  2. Karin Tilmans
  3. pp. 19-26
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  1. 3. The play of language in the Flemish chapbook Frederick van Jenuen (1517/ 1531)
  2. Myra Scholz- Heerspink
  3. pp. 27-34
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  1. 4. Psalm translations in the Low Countries, 1539– 1600, and their European context
  2. Gijsbert Siertsema
  3. pp. 35-45
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  1. 5. William the Silent’s statecraft
  2. K. W. Swart
  3. pp. 46-53
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  1. 6. Southampton, sea beggars and the Dutch Revolt, 1567– 1573
  2. Andrew Spicer
  3. pp. 54-60
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  1. 7. The strangers at work in Sandwich: Native envy of an industrious minority (1561– 1603)
  2. Marcel Backhouse
  3. pp. 61-68
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  1. 8. The Animal fable: Prints and popular culture in the Dutch Revolt
  2. Carol Janson
  3. pp. 69-82
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  1. 9. The Amsterdam Chamber De Eglentier and the ideals of Erasmian Humanism
  2. Marijke Spies
  3. pp. 83-90
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  1. 10. Calvinism in the Northern Netherlands from a farmer’s point of view
  2. Wiebe Bergsma
  3. pp. 91-99
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  1. 11. 1598: An exchange of Dutch pamphlets and their repercussions in England
  2. Anna E. C. Simoni
  3. pp. 100-125
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  1. 12. The art of history and the history of art: Cause and effect in historiography and art in the Commonwealth of the Low Countries around 1600
  2. Elisabeth de Bièvre
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  1. 13. Euterpe’s organ: Aspects of Spieghel’s Hart- Spieghel in interdisciplinary perspective
  2. Marijke Blankman
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  1. 14. Geomancy in an early play by Theodore Rodenburgh
  2. P. E. L. Verkuyl
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  1. 15. P. C. Hooft, Constantijn Huygens and the Méditations Chrestiennes of Rutger Wessel van den Boetzelaer, Baron van Asperen
  2. Paul R. Sellin
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  1. 16. The Dutch Revolt in English political culture: 1585– 1660
  2. Hugh Dunthorne
  3. pp. 173-182
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  1. 17. The theatricality of history in the Dutch Golden Age: Joost van den Vondel’s Gysbreght van Aemstel
  2. James A. Parente, Jr
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  1. 18. Seventeenth- century Dutch pamphlets as a source of political information
  2. A. Agnes Sneller
  3. pp. 196-206
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  1. 19. The Revolt of Masaniello on stage: An international perspective
  2. Marijke Meijer Drees
  3. pp. 207-213
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  1. 20. Seventeenth- century Low Countries jests in international perspective
  2. Johan Verberckmoes
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  1. 21. Wily women? On sexual imagery in Dutch art of the seventeenth century
  2. Wayne Franits
  3. pp. 220-233
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  1. 22. Lodging pilgrims in early modern Rome: San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi, an example of ‘national’ solidarity?
  2. Bart De Groof
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  1. 23. Edward Richardson and the learning of English at the time of (Prince) William and Mary
  2. Piet Loonen
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  1. Notes
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  1. List of contributors
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  1. Index
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  1. Back Cover
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