The Low Countries

Author : J. C. H. Blom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810847
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Low Countries written by J. C. H. Blom and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated volume serves as an introduction to the rich history of the Low Countries for students and the generally interested reader alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul Arblaster
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403948274
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Low Countries written by Paul Arblaster and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bruno Blondé
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474683
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City and Society in the Low Countries, 1100–1600 written by Bruno Blondé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634875
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Revolt to Riches written by Theo Hermans and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christine Kooi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009075403
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reformation in the Low Countries, 1500-1620 written by Christine Kooi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786836831
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arthur of the Low Countries written by Bart Besamusca and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..

Author : Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634972
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lutgard Mutsaers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317417941
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made in the Low Countries written by Lutgard Mutsaers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth and twenty-first century popular music of the Dutch-speaking region comprising the Netherlands and Flanders as a region of federal Belgium. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars and publicists in this field, and covers the major issues, genres, and contexts of popular music. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the issue or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to this transnational region. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music made in the region, followed by essays that are organized into four thematic sections: I: Framing and Facilitating; II: Creation and Curation; III: Close Encounters; IV: Changes and Choices.

Author : Herbert H. Rowen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349006122
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low Countries in Early Modern Times written by Herbert H. Rowen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reinder P. Meijer
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Low Countries written by Reinder P. Meijer and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: