From Revolt to Riches Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500 - 1700

• Other Authors: Hermans, Theo (Editor), Salverda, Reinier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: UCL Press 2017
• Series: Global Dutch
• Subjects: History; General & world history; Regional & national history; European history; low countries history; dutch studies; Netherlands
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (314 p.)

ISBN

111.9781910634899
9781910634875
9781910634882
9781910634905
9781910634912
9781787350175

Access

Open Access