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dc.contributor.authorRITTERSMA, Rengenier C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-11T10:26:11Z
dc.date.available2022-05-11T10:26:11Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationLeiden : Brill, 2018en
dc.identifier.isbn9789004345850
dc.identifier.isbn9789004270831
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/74510
dc.descriptionPublication date: 11 January 2018en
dc.description.abstractIn Mytho-poetics at Work Rengenier Rittersma offers an account of the posthumous fame of the Count of Egmont (1522-1568), whose public decapitation triggered the Dutch revolt. Drawing from numerous European sources – pamphlets, chronicles, and literature – this monograph tries to unravel why and how the alleged freedom fighter became an icon in European thought. It demonstrates that Egmont unfurled an evocative power over several centuries and cultural regions, as his name could be deliberately instrumentalized by different groups of people in order to corroborate their own confessional and political programs. In addition, this book offers the very first systematic study of the phenomenon of mytho-genesis and provides a conceptual model that can be applied to analogous historical myths.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrill Publishersen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/6904
dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/12560
dc.subject.lcshEgmont, Lamoraal, -- Graaf van, -- 1522-1568 -- In literatureen
dc.subject.lcshEgmont, Lamoraal, -- Graaf van, -- 1522-1568 -- Influenceen
dc.subject.lcshEgmont, Lamoraal, -- Graaf van, -- 1522-1568en
dc.titleMytho-poetics at work : a study of the figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and its influence in Europeen
dc.typeBooken
dc.description.versionPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 2006 ; English translation of the book 'Egmont da capo : eine mythogenetische Studie' (2009)en


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