Jasper van der Steen

In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how the political exploitation of the public memory of the Revolt in the Netherlands influenced the formation of distinct ‘national’ identities in the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Netherlands.

Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700

Johannes Mueller

Judith Pollmann

Erika Kuijpers

This volume examines the practice of memory in early modern Europe, showing that this was already a multimedia affair with many political uses, and affecting people at all levels of society; many pre-modern memory practices persist until today.

Jasper van der Steen

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