Medievalists.net » Counter Reformation http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Flandria Illustrata: Flemish Identities in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/flandria-illustrata-flemish-identities-late-middle-ages-early-modern-period/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/flandria-illustrata-flemish-identities-late-middle-ages-early-modern-period/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:08:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54361 This chapter discusses identity formation in early modern Flanders. It argues that policy makers and their intellectual agents transformed the perception of a province that had been divided by urban rivalries, civil war and conflicts with the Burgundian and Habsburg overlords, into a bastion of the Catholic Counter Reformation with strong ties to the Spanish King and his representatives.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/21/reformation-end-rethinking-religious-simulation-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 Blood beliefs in early modern Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/blood-beliefs-in-early-modern-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/06/29/blood-beliefs-in-early-modern-europe/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:54:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41855 This thesis focuses on the significance of blood and the perception of the body in both learned and popular culture in order to investigate problems of identity and social exclusion in early modern Europe.

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