| Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 Contributor(s): Stein, Robert, Pollmann, Judith |
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ISBN: 9004180249 ISBN-13: 9789004180246 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $157.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 949.2 |
| LCCN: 2009040862 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Nationalism' may be a modern phenomenon, but national identities are not. The medieval and early modern Low Countries are a case in point. In this myriad of political and clerical territories, identities proved dynamic. Princes and rebels, soldiers and poets, all played a part in the shaping of new imagined communities. The essays in this volume show how regional and interregional identities developed, old ones survived, and novel ones came into being. They offer a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of (national) identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries - and are an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities. |
