Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears : Constructions of a Glorious Past in the Early Modern Netherlands and in Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Thinking about the Antiquities of Europe -- Chapter 1 Antiquity, a Source of Power and Prestige: the Competition for Antiquities inEarly Modern Europe -- Chapter 2 Supposed Ancestors -- Chapter 3 The Origin Legends of the European Nations -- Chapter 4 What Is Antiquity? The Early Modern Chronology of History -- Chapter 5 A Malleable Past: On 'Proof', Interpretations, Errors and Falsifications -- Part 2 Humanists and Antiquities in the Northern Low Countries -- Chapter 6 The Batavians as Ancestors in Early Dutch Humanism: Erasmus, Aurelius and Geldenhouwer -- Chapter 7 Attempts to Find the Origins of Architecture in the Northern Low Countries: On Romans, Batavians and Giants -- Part 3 The Chivalric Past of the Dutch Republic -- Chapter 8 From Chivalric Family Tree to 'National' Gallery: the Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, c. 1490-1650 -- Chapter 9 Living as Befits a Knight: New Castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland -- Chapter 10 The Mediaeval Prestige of Dutch Cities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Figures -- Bibliography -- Index.

This study is dedicated to the constructions of "national", regional/ local antiquities in early modern Europe, 1500-1700, especially the Northern Low Countries.

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