A Literary History Of The Low Countries

Author : J. C. H. Blom,E. Lamberts
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845452728

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History of the Low Countries by J. C. H. Blom,E. Lamberts Pdf

The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries - in English - from Roman Times to the present. Remaining politically and culturally fragmented, with its inhabitants speaking Dutch, French, Frisian, and German, the Low Countries offer a fascinating picture of European history en miniature. For historical reasons, parts of northern France and western Germany also have to be included in the "Low Countries," a term that must remain both broad and fluid, a convenient label for a region which has seldom, if ever, composed a unified whole. In earlier ages it as even more difficult to the region set parameters, again reflecting Europe as a whole, when tribes and kingdoms stretched across expanses not limited to the present states of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Nevertheless, its parts did demonstrate many common traits and similar developments that differentiated them from surrounding countries and lent them a distinct character. Internationally, the region often served both as a mediator for and a buffer to the surrounding great powers, France, Britain, and Germany; an important role still played today as Belgium and the Netherlands have increasingly become involved in the broader process of European integration, in which they often share the same interest and follow parallel policies. This highly illustrated volume serves as an ideal introduction to the rich history of the Low Countries for students and the generally interested reader alike.

Author : Theo Hermans
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781571132932

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A Literary History of the Low Countries by Theo Hermans Pdf

An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s

Author : Reinder Meijer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789400997349

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Literature of the Low Countries by Reinder Meijer Pdf

In any definition of terms, Dutch literature must be taken to mean all literature written in Dutch, thus excluding literature in Frisian, even though Friesland is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the same way as literature in Welsh would be excluded from a history of English literature. Simi larly, literature in Afrikaans (South African Dutch) falls outside the scope of this book, as Afrikaans from the moment of its birth out of seventeenth-century Dutch grew up independently and must be regarded as a language in its own right. . Dutc:h literature, then, is the literature written in Dutch as spoken in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the so-called Flemish part of the Kingdom of Belgium, that is the area north of the linguistic frontier which runs east-west through Belgium passing slightly south of Brussels. For the modern period this definition is clear anough, but for former times it needs some explanation. What do we mean, for example, when we use the term 'Dutch' for the medieval period? In the Middle Ages there was no standard Dutch language, and when the term 'Dutch' is used in a medieval context it is a kind of collective word indicating a number of different but closely related Frankish dialects. The most important of those were the dialects of the duchies of Limburg and Brabant, and of the counties of Flanders and Holland.

Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634974

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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture by Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Author : Reinder P Meijer,Reinder P. Meijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805734317

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Literature of the Low Countries by Reinder P Meijer,Reinder P. Meijer Pdf

Author : Theo Hermans,Reinier Salverda,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634875

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From Revolt to Riches by Theo Hermans,Reinier Salverda,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004201118

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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 by Anonim Pdf

In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion.

Author : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910634998

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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture by Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau Pdf

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Author : Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
Publisher : Heritage and Memory Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Civilization, Hispanic
ISBN : 9462989370

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Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) by Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez Pdf

This book explores the protracted interest in Spain and its culture, and it exposes the co-existent ambiguity between scorn and fascination that characterizes Western historical perceptions, in particular in Britain and the Low Countries.

Author : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789543452

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The Burgundians by Bart Van Loo Pdf

A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.

Author : Alisa van de Haar,Dirk Schoenaers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463721088

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Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600) by Alisa van de Haar,Dirk Schoenaers Pdf

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of 'otherness' were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated and mobile as their authors. As awareness of the francophone literature of the medieval and early modern Low Countries continues to grow, texts in all three languages will be ever more firmly connected in an intricate and multilingual weave.

Author : Paul Arblaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307148

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A History of the Low Countries by Paul Arblaster Pdf

This introductory overview of the Low Countries' history traces their development since Roman times, providing equal weighting to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Paul Arblaster looks at political, cultural and social history, including the rise of the merchant classes, the Renaissance and Golden Age, and the two world wars of the 20th century. The final chapter has been expanded and revised to take into account developments since 2011. This third edition is thoroughly updated and revised throughout and benefits from our recently refreshed series design. This timely and engaging narrative provides an invaluable starting-point for students of History focusing on the Low Countries, European Studies and Dutch studies. New to this Edition: - More detail on the EU, particularly current in light of Brexit and Euroscepticism - More environmental and global history - Coverage of the latest political developments - More maps, to bridge the gap between the 15th century and the present day - An updated bibliography

Author : Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786836830

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The Arthur of the Low Countries by Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma Pdf

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..

Author : Lia van Gemert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789089641298

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Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 by Lia van Gemert Pdf

This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.

Author : Elleke Boehmer,Sarah de Mul
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739164280

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The Postcolonial Low Countries by Elleke Boehmer,Sarah de Mul Pdf

The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain. In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial 'readymades' as hybridity, accommodation and creolization. Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.