Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading
scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for
his important work on the impact of religious change on political
events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low
Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his
previously published essays - together with one entirely new
chapter and two that appear in English here for the first time -
this volume explores the emergence of new political and religious
identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the
emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of
states in north-western Europe that were united first under the
rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg
princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the
political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries
during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of
essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the
regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated
through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age
of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of
identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and
individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these
dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of
the Netherlands during the early modern period.
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