Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low Countries

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Contents: By way of introduction The elusive Netherlands: the question of national identity in the early modern Low Countries on the eve of the Revolt In defence of the common fatherland: patriotism and liberty in the Low countries, 1555a 1576 Moulded by repression: the early Netherlands Reformation, 1520a 55 The 'inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1521a A legend in the making: news of the 'Spanish Inquisition' in the Low Countries in German evangelical pamphlets, 1546a 1550 Dissident propaganda and political organisation at the outbreak of the Revolt of the Netherlands Posters, pamphlets and prints: the ways and means of disseminating dissident opinions on the eve of the Dutch Revolt Calvinists and 'papist idolatry': the mentality of the image-breakers in 1566 Martyrs with a difference: Dutch Anabaptist victims of Elizabethan persecution The search for religious identity in a confessional age: the conversions of Jean Haren (c.1545a c.1613) Calvinist loyalism. Jean Haren, Chimay and the demise of the Calvinist republic of Bruges Bibliography Index.