Mytho-Poetics at Work : A Study of the Figure of Egmont, the Dutch Revolt and Its Influence in Europe.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the German Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 To Order the Unprecedented: Egmont in Proto-historiography -- Section 1 Prolegomena -- Chapter 1 Preliminary Remarks on the Source Corpus -- Chapter 2 Biographical Information on the Eyewitnesses and Authors -- Section 2 The Various Layers of the Early Egmont Reception -- Chapter 3 The Atavistic Layer -- Chapter 4 The Particularistic Layer -- Chapter 5 The Theocratic Redemptive-historical Layer -- Chapter 6 The Religious-confessional Layer -- Chapter 7 The Person-centered Layer -- Intermezzo: The Sacred Layer -- Continuation of the Person-centered Layer -- Chapter 8 The Anti-Spanish Layer -- Chapter 9 The Anti-Spanish Layer in the Early Foreign Egmont Reception -- Concluding Remarks: On Dealing with the Quirks of History -- Part 2 To Exploit the Anachronism: Egmont in Historiography -- Chapter 10 Preliminary Remarks on the Source Corpus -- Chapter 11 A Historiographical Subgenus: Herography -- Chapter 12 The Struggle for Preponderance: Historiography in the Wake of Sectarian Wrangling -- Chapter 13 The Target: The Supremacy of Northern Dutch Historiography -- Chapter 14 In the Wake of Politics: Grotius' Historiography as "Certification" of the Republic's Birth -- Chapter 15 In the Name of the Search for Truth: De Thou's Historiography as an Irenic Manifesto -- Chapter 16 Under the Spell of Prudentia: Strada's and Bentivoglio's Historiography as a Political Lesson -- 1 The Baroque: More than a Transitional Stage between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment -- 2 "Quell'Aiace e questo Ulisse." Egmont and Orange in Strada and Bentivoglio -- Chapter 17 In the Spirit of the Enlightenment: Wagenaar's Historiography as an Empirical Analysis of the Past -- Concluding Remarks: On Dealing with the History's Latecomers.

Part 3 To Eulogise the Unfeigned: Egmont in the European Age of Revolution -- Section 1 The Dead End: On How the German Baroque Left Behind No Trace of Egmont -- Section 2 "The Path to Glory:"* Egmont's Finest Hour in the Revolutionary Era -- Chapter 18 Defining the Problem, Delineating the Theme -- Chapter 19 The Development of the Chosen One: On Goethe's Sources for His Egmont Tragedy -- Chapter 20 The Development of the Chosen One: On Schiller's Sources for His Egmont Treatment -- Chapter 21 "Under Similar Constellations:" A Star Over Brussels, Rome, Weimar -- Chapter 22 Egmont, or: The Excess of Noble Mindedness -- Chapter 23 Egmont, the Man of Integrity, or: Praise for an Honest and Undisguised Man -- Chapter 24 Synopsis: The Afterlife of Count Lamoral of Egmont since 1800 -- Concluding Remarks: Dealing with the Patterns of History -- Afterword: On the Writhing Carcas and the Homo Amplificator -- Appendix 1 The Element of Chess in Goethe's Egmont -- Appendix 2 Illustrations of the Mycorrhiza Process -- Appendix 3 Textual Comparison between the Ypres Eyewitness Account and Pieter Christiaenszoon Bor's Nederlantsche Oorloghen (…) -- Appendix 4 Schematic Overview of the Transmission of the Egmont Material between the Proto-historiographical and the Historiographical Phases of the Egmont Reception -- Appendix 5 Summary of the State of Research on Goethe's Egmont in German Studies -- Appendix 6 Complete Passages on Egmont's Noble Mindedness -- Appendix 7 Extensive Citation from Fugger-Zeitung -- Published Primary Sources -- Unpublished Primary Sources: Manuscripts and Pamphlets -- Secondary Literature -- Index of Names.

Why and how did the Count of Egmont (1522-1568) become a mythical figure in European culture? This book explains and also provides a methodological instrument for the reading of similar historical myths.

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