Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke

Was there such a thing as 'public opinion' before the age of newspapers and party politics? The essays in this collection show that in the Low Countries, at least, there certainly was. In this highly urbanised society, with high literacy rates and good connections, news and public debate could spread fast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, enabling the growth of powerful opposition movements against the Crown, the creation of the Dutch Republic, and of the distinctive Netherlandish culture of the Golden Age.Pollmann, Judith is the author of 'Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands Essays in Honour of Alastair Duke', published 2006 under ISBN 9789004155275 and ISBN 9004155279.