Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650

Robert Stein is Lecturer in Medieval history at Leiden University. His main fields of interest are State-formation and the development of national identities in the Burgundian Low Countries.Judith Pollmann is professor in history and culture of the Dutch Republic at Leiden University. She has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of the early modern Netherlands. She is currently directing the VICI-project “Tales of the Revolt: Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1750”.

• AcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsIntroduction, Robert Stein1. The dynamics of national identity in the later Middle Ages, Peter Hoppenbrouwers2. An urban network in the Low Countries. A cultural approach, Robert Stein3. The imagined community of Friesland in the late Middle Ages, Justine Smithuis4. The functions of the late medieval Brabantine legend of Brabon, Sjoerd Bijker5. Against Burgundy. The appeal of Germany in the duchy of Guelders, Aart Noordzij6. The Habsburg theatre state. Court, city and the performance of identity in the early modern Southern Low Countries, Anne-Laure Van Bruaene7. War and identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477-1559, Steven Gunn8. War propaganda, literature and national identity in Renaissance France, c.1490-1560, David Potter9. The city defeated and defended. Civism as political identity in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands, Peter Arnade10. In defence of the common fatherland. Patriotism and liberty in the Low Countries, 1555-1576, Alastair Duke11. No Man’s Land. Reinventing Netherlandish Identities, 1585-1621, Judith Pollmann12. ‘Lands’ and ‘Fatherlands’. Changes in the plurality of allegiances in the sixteenth century Holy Roman Empire, Robert von FriedeburgIndex