TY - GEN AU - Bloemendal,Jan AU - van Dixhoorn,Arjan AU - Strietman,Elsa TI - Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 SN - 9789004201118 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden-Boston PB - Brill KW - Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 KW - bicssc KW - European history KW - History of religion KW - History of ideas KW - literaire cultuur KW - public opinion KW - religieuze geschiedenis KW - early modern history KW - geschiedenis van het boek KW - literary culture KW - lage landen KW - history of the book KW - religious history KW - vroege moderne geschiedenis KW - publieke opinie KW - low countries KW - Arminius KW - Catholic Church KW - Hugo Grotius KW - Netherlands N1 - Open Access N2 - In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils – literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34616/1/391856.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34616/1/391856.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34616/1/391856.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30377 ER -