Literature Of The Low Countries

Author : J. C. H. Blom,E. Lamberts
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Reinder P. Meijer
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Literature of the Low Countries by Reinder P. Meijer Pdf

Author : Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Wolfgang Behschnitt,Sarah De Mul,Liesbeth Minnaard
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401209854

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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries by Wolfgang Behschnitt,Sarah De Mul,Liesbeth Minnaard Pdf

Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries.

Author : Alisa van de Haar,Dirk Schoenaers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Christine Kooi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009075404

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Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 by Christine Kooi Pdf

This accessible general history of the Reformation in the Netherlands traces the key developments in the process of reformation – both Protestant and Catholic – across the whole of the Low Countries during the sixteenth century. Synthesizing fifty years' worth of scholarly literature, Christine Kooi focuses particularly on the political context of the era: how religious change took place against the integration and disintegration of the Habsburg composite state in the Netherlands. Special attention is given to the Reformation's role in both fomenting and fuelling the Revolt against the Habsburg regime in the later sixteenth century, as well as how it contributed to the formation of the region's two successor states, the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, bringing together specialized, contemporary research on the Low Countries in one volume.

Author : Reinder Meijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9400997353

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Literature of the Low Countries by Reinder Meijer Pdf

Author : Andrew Pettegree,Malcolm Walsby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1590 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004216600

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Netherlandish Books (NB) (2 Vols.) by Andrew Pettegree,Malcolm Walsby Pdf

Netherlandish Books offers a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. This bibliography lists descriptions of over 32,000 editions together with an introduction and indexes.

Author : Lia van Gemert
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Michiel de Vaan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264503

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The Dawn of Dutch by Michiel de Vaan Pdf

The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.

Author : Theo Hermans
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Theo Hermans,Reinier Salverda,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Ernest Mathijs
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764002

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The Cinema of the Low Countries by Ernest Mathijs Pdf

Films from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have long been regarded as isolated texts. The Cinema of the Low Countries points to the interconnectedness between these national cinemas from the point of view of genre, language and format, and their local and international importance by explicitly focusing on 24 key feature films and documentaries from the region. Building on each film's relationship with its particular cultural context, this volume presents twenty-four specially commissioned essays that explore the particular significance and influence of a wide range of exemplary films. Covering the work of internationally acclaimed directors such as Joris Ivens, Henri Stock, Paul Verhoeven and the Dardenne Brothers and featuring the films Turkish Delight, The Vanishing, Daughters of Darkness, Rosetta, Soldiers of Orange and Man Bites Dog, this collection offers an original approach to the appreciation of a diverse and increasingly important regional cinema.