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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461682703321

Autore

Esser Raingard

Titolo

The politics of memory [[electronic resource] ] : the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries / / by Raingard Esser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49639-8

9786613591623

90-04-22204-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history, , 0920-8607 ; ; v. 208

Disciplina

949.2/03072

Soggetti

Collective memory - Netherlands

Collective memory - Flanders

Electronic books.

Netherlands History 17th century Historiography

Netherlands Historiography 17th century

Flanders History 17th century Historiography

Flanders Historiography 17th century

Netherlands Description and travel Early works to 1800

Flanders Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition -- Nijmegen : city of the Batavians -- Antverpiae antiquitatum -- Faded glory : Leuven -- Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen -- Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders -- On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.

Sommario/riassunto

The Eighty Years’ War and the establishment of two states in the Low Countries inaugurated the publication of numerous texts to support a distinct Northern and Southern identity. This study analyses urban and regional chorographies written both in the North and in the South in the seventeenth century. It examines different strategies that chorographers developed to make sense of the recent and more remote



past. It also looks at the development of different historiographical traditions in the Protestant North and the Catholic South and thus contributes to the current research interest in the history of historiography, cultures of memory and identity formation.