The German liberty in England and the Dutch Republic: On the pan‐Protestant literary field and the circulation of a loaded epithet.
Abstract: In this article, I track the reception of Gustavus Adolphus, Swedish king and hero of the Thirty Years War, across the borders of Northern Europe. I argue that writers in England, the Dutch Republic, and the German territories consciously participated in a ‘pan‐Protestant literary field’,...
| Publicado en: | Renaissance Studies Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 406 - 427 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2018
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