Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas)
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004155275 |
| Open Library | OL16948923W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2006 - 2007 |
| Language | EN |
Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown, the creation of the Dutch Republic, and of the distinctive Netherlandish culture of the Golden Age. Contributors include: Hugh Dunthorne, Raingard Esser, Jonathan Israel, Gustaaf Janssens, Henk van Nierop, Guido Marnef, M.E.H. Nicolette Mout, Andrew Pettegree, Judith Pollmann, Paul Regan*, Andrew Sawyer*, Jo Spaans, Andrew Spicer*, and Juliaan Woltjer. (* Supervised by Alastair Duke)
Chapter Two. A Provincial News Community In Sixteenth-Century Europe
In recent years scholars have devoted increasing attention to the nature of public opinion in sixteenth-century Europe. In sixteenth-century societies the exercise of power was always persuasive; agreement must be cultivated, even where duty was formally commanded. In the last decades of the fifteenth century, one can witness a precocious battle to command public sympathy, as the French and Burgundian regimes promoted conflicting visions of curre…
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions
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Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands (Studies in Medieval Reformation Traditions
Chapter Two. A Provincial News Community In Sixteenth-Century Europe
In recent years scholars have devoted increasing attention to the nature of public opinion in sixteenth-century Europe. In sixteenth-century societies the exercise of power was always persuasive; agreement must be cultivated, even where duty was formally commanded. In the last decades of the fifteenth century, one can witness a precocious battle to command public sympathy, as the French and Burgundian regimes promoted conflicting visions of curre…