| The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century: Erasmus, Religion and Politics, Trade and Finance Contributor(s): Tracy, James D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0860789551 ISBN-13: 9780860789550 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History |
| Dewey: 949.202 |
| LCCN: 2004054815 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.41 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the 16th century, the population of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided not just a ready audience for ideas of religious reform, but a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of the age - not to mention ground-breaking innovations in trade and finance. The present volume reproduces fourteen essays in which James Tracy studies each of these different aspects of Low Countries culture. Part I focuses on the educational and religious reform proposals of a native son, Erasmus of Rotterdam; Part II looks at the conflicts of the Reformation era, mainly from the perspective of the province of Holland; and Part III examines economic and fiscal development in light of the ongoing tug-of-war between government centralization and the defense of local privilege. |