Acknowledgments

List of illustrations

Introduction (Robert Stein)

Chapter One The Dynamics of National Identity in the Later Middle Ages (Peter Hoppenbrouwers)

Chapter Two An Urban Network in the Low Countries. A Cultural Approach (Robert Stein)

Chapter Three The Imagined Community of Friesland in the Late Middle Ages (Justine Smithuis)

Chapter Four The Functions of the Late Medieval Brabantine Legend of Brabon (Sjoerd Bijker)

Chapter Five Against Burgundy. The Appeal of Germany in the Duchy of Guelders (Aart Noordzij)

Chapter Six The Habsburg Theatre State. Court, City and the Performance of Identity in the Early Modern Southern Low Countries (Anne-Laure Van Bruaene)

Chapter Seven War and Identity in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1477–1559 (Steven Gunn)

Chapter Eight War Propaganda, Literature and National Identity in Renaissance France, c. 1490–1560 (David Potter)

Chapter Nine The City Defeated and Defended. Civism as Political Identity in the Habsburg-Burgundian Netherlands (Peter Arnade)

Chapter Ten In defence of the Common Fatherland. Patriotism and Liberty in the Low Countries, 1555–1576 (Alastair Duke)

Chapter Eleven No Man's Land. Reinventing Netherlandish Identities, 1585–1621 (Judith Pollmann)

Chapter Twelve 'Lands' and 'Fatherlands'. Changes in the Plurality of Allegiances in the Sixteenth Century Holy Roman Empire (Robert von Friedeburg)

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