Mytho-poetics at work : a study of the figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and its influence in Europe / Rengenier C. Rittersma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rittersma, Rengenier C.

Series:

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 266.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 266

Standardized Title:

Egmont da capo. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--Netherlands--Biography.

Statesmen.

Myth--Political aspects--History.

Myth.

Netherlands--History--Charles V, 1506-1555.

Netherlands.

Egmont, Lamoraal, Graaf van, 1522-1568--Influence.

Egmont, Lamoraal.

Egmont, Lamoraal, Graaf van, 1522-1568--In literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages).

Other Title:

Study of the figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and its influence in Europe

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

In Mytho-poetics at Work Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources - pamphlets, chronicles, and literature - this monograph tries to unravel why and how the alleged freedom fighter became an icon in European thought. It demonstrates that Egmont unfurled an evocative power over several centuries and cultural regions, as his name could be deliberately instrumentalized by different groups of people in order to corroborate their own confessional and political programs. In addition, this book offers the very first systematic study of the phenomenon of mytho-genesis and provides a conceptual model that can be applied to analogous historical myths.

Contents:

Introduction* / Rengenier C. Rittersma

To Order the Unprecedented:* Egmont in Proto-historiography / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Prolegomena / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Preliminary Remarks on the Source Corpus / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Biographical Information on the Eyewitnesses and Authors / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Various Layers of the Early Egmont Reception / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Atavistic Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Particularistic Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Theocratic Redemptive-historical Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Religious-confessional Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Person-centered Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Anti-Spanish Layer / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Anti-Spanish Layer in the Early Foreign Egmont Reception / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Concluding Remarks: On Dealing with the Quirks of History / Rengenier C. Rittersma

To Exploit the Anachronism: Egmont in Historiography / Rengenier C. Rittersma

A Historiographical Subgenus: Herography / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Struggle for Preponderance: Historiography in the Wake of Sectarian Wrangling / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Target: The Supremacy of Northern Dutch Historiography / Rengenier C. Rittersma

In the Wake of Politics: Grotius' Historiography as "Certification" of the Republic's Birth / Rengenier C. Rittersma

In the Name of the Search for Truth: De Thou's Historiography as an Irenic Manifesto / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Under the Spell of Prudentia: Strada's and Bentivoglio's Historiography as a Political Lesson* / Rengenier C. Rittersma

In the Spirit of the Enlightenment: Wagenaar's Historiography as an Empirical Analysis of the Past / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Concluding Remarks: On Dealing with the History's Latecomers / Rengenier C. Rittersma

To Eulogise the Unfeigned: Egmont in the European Age of Revolution / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Dead End: On How the German Baroque Left Behind No Trace of Egmont / Rengenier C. Rittersma

"The Path to Glory:"* Egmont's Finest Hour in the Revolutionary Era / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Defining the Problem, Delineating the Theme / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Development of the Chosen One: On Goethe's Sources for His Egmont Tragedy / Rengenier C. Rittersma

The Development of the Chosen One: On Schiller's Sources for His Egmont Treatment / Rengenier C. Rittersma

"Under Similar Constellations:" A Star Over Brussels, Rome, Weimar1 / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Egmont, or: The Excess of Noble Mindedness / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Egmont, the Man of Integrity, or: Praise for an Honest and Undisguised Man / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Synopsis: The Afterlife of Count Lamoral of Egmont since 1800 / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Concluding Remarks: Dealing with the Patterns of History / Rengenier C. Rittersma

Afterword: On the Writhing Carcas and the Homo Amplificator / Rengenier C. Rittersma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-34585-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004345850 DOI