List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction, Judith Pollmann & Andrew Spicer 1. Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt. Romantic History and its Sixteenth-Century Antecedents, Hugh Dunthorne 2. A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Andrew Pettegree 3. Cartography, Chorography and Patriotic Sentiment in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries, Paul Regan 4. ‘And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars’. Rumour and the Revolt of the Netherlands, Henk van Nierop 5. Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the Netherlands, 1550–59, Juliaan Woltjer 6. ‘Superexcellat autem misericordia iudicium’. The Homily of François Richardot on the Occasion of the Solemn Announcement of the General Pardon in the Netherlands (Antwerp, 16 July 1570), Gustaaf Janssens 7. Resistance and the Celebration of Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Brabant, Guido Marnef 8. Justus Lipsius between War and Peace. His Public Letter on Spanish Foreign Policy and the Respective Merits of War, Peace or Truce (1595), Nicolette Mout 9. Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1568–1632, Andrew Sawyer 10. Public Opinion or Ritual Celebration of Concord? Politics, Religion and Society in the Competition between the Chambers of Rhetoric at Vlaardingen, 1616, Joke Spaans 11. ‘Brabanters Do Fairly Resemble Spaniards After All’. Memory, Propaganda and Identity in the Twelve Years’ Truce, Judith Pollmann 12. ‘Concordia res parvae crescunt’. Regional Histories and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century, Raingard Esser 13. ‘So Many Painted Jezebels’. Stained Glass Windows and the Formation of an Urban Identity in the Dutch Republic, Andrew Spicer 14. Group Identity and Opinion among the Huguenot Diaspora and the Challenge of Pierre Bayle’s Toleration Theory (1685–1706), Jonathan Israel Index