Introduction --- Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer -- Abbreviations -- Notes On Contributors -- Introduction --- Judith Pollmann and Andrew Spicer -- Chapter One Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt. Romantic History and its Sixteenth-Century Antecedents --- Hugh Dunthorne -- Chapter Two A Provincial News Community in Sixteenth-Century Europe --- Andrew Pettegree -- Chapter Three Cartography, Chorography and Patriotic Sentiment in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries --- Paul Regan -- Chapter Four 'And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars'. Rumour and the Revolt of the Netherlands --- Henk van Nierop -- Chapter Five Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the Netherlands, 1550-59 --- Juliaan Woltjer -- Chapter Six '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 -- Chapter Seven Resistance and the Celebration of Privileges in Sixteenth-Century Brabant --- Guido Marnef -- Chapter Eight 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 -- Chapter Nine Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, 1568-1632 --- Andrew Sawyer -- Chapter Ten Public Opinion or Ritual Celebration of Concord? Politics, Religion and Society in the Competition between the Chambers of Rhetoric at Vlaardingen, 1616 --- Joke Spaans -- Chapter Eleven 'Brabanters Do Fairly Resemble Spaniards After All'. Memory, Propaganda and Identity in the Twelve Years' Truce --- Judith Pollmann -- Chapter Twelve 'Concordia res parvae crescunt'. Regional Histories and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century --- Raingard Esser.

Chapter Thirteen 'So Many Painted Jezebels'. Stained Glass Windows and the Formation of an Urban Identity in the Dutch Republic --- Andrew Spicer -- Chapter Fourteen Group Identity and Opinion among the Huguenot Diaspora and the Challenge of Pierre Bayle's Toleration Theory (1685-1706) --- Jonathan Israel -- Index.