Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 (repost)
Jan Bloemendal, "Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650"
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN 10: 9004206167 | 2011 | PDF | 336 pages | 5.3 MB
Publisher: BRILL | ISBN 10: 9004206167 | 2011 | PDF | 336 pages | 5.3 MB
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.