The Low Countries A History

Author : J. C. H. Blom,E. Lamberts
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Jane Fenoulhet,Lesley Gilbert,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Paul Arblaster
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1403948275

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A History of the Low Countries by Paul Arblaster Pdf

This is the first full historical survey of the Benelux area (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) to be written in English. Paul Arblaster describes the whole sweep of the history of the Low Countries, from Roman frontier provinces, through medieval principalities, to the establishment of the three constitutional monarchies of the present day. This readable overview highlights the international importance of the social, economic , spiritual, and cultural movements that have marked the region.

Author : Theo Hermans,Reinier Salverda,Ulrich Tiedau
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Herbert H. Rowen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1972-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349006120

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Low Countries in Early Modern Times by Herbert H. Rowen Pdf

Author : Paul Arblaster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137611888

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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 : Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474689

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City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600 by Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Pdf

A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.

Author : Theo Hermans
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Reinder P. Meijer
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Literature of the Low Countries by Reinder P. Meijer Pdf

Author : Christine Kooi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Ernst Heinrich Kossmann
Publisher : Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Belgium
ISBN : UOM:39076006907948

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The Low Countries, 1780-1940 by Ernst Heinrich Kossmann Pdf

This history of Belgium and the Netherlands is the first major study in English to treat them as nations in their own right, while placing them in a wider European and world context.

Author : Alastair Duke,Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351943482

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Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries by Alastair Duke,Andrew Spicer Pdf

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.

Author : Wim Blockmans,Walter Prevenier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0812213823

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The Promised Lands by Wim Blockmans,Walter Prevenier Pdf

They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ""the Promised Lands."" In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockman

Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520324428

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Erasmus of the Low Countries by James D. Tracy Pdf

Few historical figures have been more important in modeling the ideal of impartial critical scholarship than Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469-1536). Yet his critical scholarship, though beholden to no one, was not dispassionate. James Tracy shows how Erasmus the scholar sought through his writings to promote the moral and religious renewal of Christian society. Tracy finds the genesis of the humanist's notion of a "Christian republic" of pious and learned individuals in his "Burgundian," or Low Countries, roots. Erasmus's vision of reform, Tracy argues, sprung from a humanist tradition focusing on the importance of teaching (doctrina), a tradition from which Erasmus departed in his optimism about human nature and his deep suspicion of the powers that be. Amid the storms of Reformation controversy, he pruned back the "dissimulation" by which he had thought to convey different meanings to different readers, yet in the end he could not control the way his words were read. If Erasmus's scholarly ideal carries an enduring fascination, so too does his dilemma as a man of circumspection who would also be a reformer. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.