The elusive Netherlands. The question of national identity in the early modern Low Countries on the eve of the Revolt

The Elusive Netherlands: the Question of National Identity in the early Modern Low Countries on the Eve of the Revolt The idea of the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands having any sort of national identity is usually met with understandable scepticism. The constitutional obstacles to the construction of such an identity were formidable, not least the piecemeal formation of the Burgundian dynastic state, whose prince owed homage to the kings of France and to the Holy Roman Emperor for their territories, and some of whose subjects could still seek justice in ‘foreign’ courts . Not surprisingly the... Mehr ...