From Revolt to Riches: Culture and History of the Low Countries, 1500–1700
Theo Hermans · Reinier Salverda · Ulrich Tiedau
Mar 2017 · Global Dutch Book 2 · UCL Press
star
1 review
Ebook
314
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
About this ebook
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.
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 r...
Discover more
Ratings and reviews
1 review
Aayush Setia
- Flag inappropriate
October 24, 2025
reading was amazing
About the author
Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at UCL, and Director of the UCL Centre for Translation Studies. Reinier Salverda is Honorary Professor of Dutch Language and Literature at UCL and Honorary Research Fellow of the Fryske Akademy in the Netherlands.Ulrich Tiedau is Senior Lecturer in Modern Low Countries History and Society at UCL. In addition, he serves as editor-in-chief of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies and review editor of Frontiers in Digital Humanities.
Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at UCL, and Director of the UCL Centre for Translation Studies. Reinier Salverda is Honorary Professor of Dutch Language and Literature at UCL and Honorary Research Fellow of the Fryske Akademy in the Netherlands.Ulrich Tiedau is Senio...
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
