The politics of memory
Subtitle: the writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries
By: by Raingard Esser
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v 208
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789004208070; 9789004222045
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The jewel in the crown : Amsterdam and her historians; title: Tot Lof van Haarlem : memories in competition; title: Nijmegen : city of the Batavians; title: Antverpiae antiquitatum; title: Faded glory : Leuven; title: Crusader kings and warrior saints : Geraardsbergen; title: Centre and peripheries : Holland, Zeeland, Gelderland, Drenthe and Overijssel and Flanders; title: On the border : Brabantia Sacra or Der Staten Brabant.