Introduction --- Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer

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Introduction --- Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer

Chapter One Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt. Romantic History and its Sixteenth-Century Antecedents --- Hugh Dunthorne

Chapter Two A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe --- Andrew Pettegree

Chapter Three Cartography, Chorography and Patriotic Sentiment in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries --- Paul Regan

Chapter Four 'And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars'. Rumour and the Revolt of the Netherlands --- Henk van Nierop

Chapter Five Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the Netherlands, 1550–59 --- Juliaan Woltjer

Chapter Six 'Superexcellat autem misericordia iudicium'. The Homily of François Richardot on the Occasion of the Solemn Announcement of the General Pardon in the Netherlands (Antwerp, 16 July 1570) --- Gustaaf Janssens

Chapter Seven Resistance and the Celebration of Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Brabant --- Guido Marnef

Chapter Eight Justus Lipsius between War and Peace. His Public Letter on Spanish Foreign Policy and the Respective Merits of War, Peace or Truce (1595) --- Nicolette Mout

Chapter Nine Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1568–1632 --- Andrew Sawyer

Chapter Ten Public Opinion or Ritual Celebration of Concord? Politics, Religion and Society in the Competition between the Chambers of Rhetoric at Vlaardingen, 1616 --- Joke Spaans

Chapter Eleven 'Brabanters Do Fairly Resemble Spaniards After All'. Memory, Propaganda and Identity in the Twelve Years' Truce --- Judith Pollmann

Chapter Twelve 'Concordia res parvae crescunt'. Regional Histories and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century --- Raingard Esser

Chapter Thirteen 'So Many Painted Jezebels'. Stained Glass Windows and the Formation of an Urban Identity in the Dutch Republic --- Andrew Spicer

Chapter Fourteen Group Identity and Opinion among the Huguenot Diaspora and the Challenge of Pierre Bayle's Toleration Theory (1685–1706) --- Jonathan Israel

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