From revolt to riches : culture and history of the Low Countries, 1500-1700 / Theo Hermans and Reinier Salverda

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermans, Theo, editor.

Salverda, Reinier, editor.

Series:

Global Dutch: studies in Low Countries culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benelux countries--Civilization--16th century.

Benelux countries.

Benelux countries--Civilization--17th century.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London, England : UCL Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on e-publication (viewed July 26, 2017)

Publisher Number:

10.14324/111.9781910634899