Dissident identities in the early modern Low Countries

Contents

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, 1555-1576 -- Moulded by repression : the early Netherlands Reformation 1520-55 -- The 'Inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the Habsburg Netherlands 1521-1566 -- A legend in the making : news of the 'Spanish Inquisition' in the Low Countries in German evangelical pamphlets, 1546-1550 -- 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. 1545-c. 1613) -- Calvinist loyalism : Jean Haren, Chimay and the demise of the Calvinist Republic of Bruges.