Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910634972

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.

Politics in the Netherlands

Politics in the Netherlands
Author: Hans Daalder
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780714633619

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries

Research Guide to Libraries and Archives in the Low Countries
Author:
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1991-07-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The first comprehensive guide in English to libraries and archives in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg, this book gives humanities and social science researchers easy access to numerous important unexplored collections. The detailed entries fill the void between international directories (which provide minimal information) and country-specific guides in the vernacular (which are largely unknown to U.S. scholars). The thorough descriptions are based on selected on-site visits, direct correspondence with researchers, librarians, and archivists, and bibliographic research about the collections. Part I contains a 90-page, annotated bibliography covering five categories of publications: national bibliographies, union catalogs, biographical dictionaries, directories and guides to collections, and subject guides and bibliographies. Part II provides detailed descriptions of the principal research collections in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The descriptions include basic directory information, profiles and histories, notes on special collections, and details on regulations affecting access. Institutional, subject, and author and title indexes are also provided. This book is an important research tool for national and academic libraries and archives, museums, scholars of social science, and Netherlandic studies, and European Community depository libraries.

History of the Low Countries

History of the Low Countries
Author: J. C. H. Blom
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 522
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781571810847

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.

The Netherlands

The Netherlands
Author: Peter King
Publisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN:

From Revolt to Riches

From Revolt to Riches
Author: Theo Hermans
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910634875

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.