Ebook: A Literary History of the Low Countries

Title; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Low Countries in the 13th and 14th Centuries; 1: The Middle Ages until circa 1400; The Low Countries in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries; 2: The Late Middle Ages and the Age of the Rhetoricians, 1400-1560; I. Literary Life in the City; II. The Chambers of Rhetoric; III. Literature and the Printing Press; IV. Farewell to the Middle Ages; The Low Countries in the 17th Century; 3: The Dutch Revolt and the Golden Age, 1560-1700; I. Literature and the Dutch Revolt; II. Renaissance and Renewal; III. Literature as a Medium of Instruction: Drama.;What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary culture of the Low Countries through the ages? Why is experimental writing so prevalent in modern Dutch literature? What has made Cees Nooteboom an internationally acclaimed author? And how does Flemish relate to Dutch anyway? This first liter.