TY  - BOOK
AU  - Esser,Raingard
TI  - The politics of memory: the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries 
T2  - Brill's studies in intellectual history,
SN  - 9789004222045
AV  - DJ156 .E77 2012
U1  - 949.2/03072 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Flanders
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Early works to 1800
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Partition, Continuity and Change: Urban and Regional Cultures of Memory in the Low Countries in the Seventeenth Century -- The Jewel in the Crown: Amsterdam and Its Historians -- Tot Lof van Haarlem: Memories in Competition -- Nijmegen: City of the Batavians -- Antverpiae Antiquitatum -- Faded Glory: Leuven -- Crusader Kings and Warrior Saints: Geraardsbergen -- Centre and Periphery: Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Flanders -- On the Border: Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The Eighty Years’ War and the establishment of two states in the Low Countries inaugurated the publication of numerous texts to support a distinct Northern and Southern identity. This study analyses urban and regional chorographies written both in the North and in the South in the seventeenth century. It examines different strategies that chorographers developed to make sense of the recent and more remote past. It also looks at the development of different historiographical traditions in the Protestant North and the Catholic South and thus contributes to the current research interest in the history of historiography, cultures of memory and identity formation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004222045
ER  -