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The Proud Nightingale covers the many facets of medieval music in the Netherlands until the year 1600. Eighteen authors discuss songs ranging from of courtly songs, including minstrels, mystics and Modern Devots, on the performance and the oral tradition of ancient songs, and on intertextuality. What is new is the use of ethnological perspective by a number of the authors. This book is a collection of songs: messages from loved ones to joyous songs sung by groups at home and in the pub, or by farmers and servants whilst weeding, mowing and harvesting. At the same time religious melodies convey their desire for God or their distaste of the world. - De fiere nachtegaal brengt boodschappen van geliefden over in liederen gezongen door vrolijke gezelschappen thuis en in de kroeg, of door boeren en knechten onder het wieden, maaien en binnenhalen van de oogst. Op dezelfde melodieën bezingen religieuzen hun verlangen naar God of hun afkeer van de wereld. De fiere nachtegaal bestrijkt de vele facetten van het middeleeuwse lied in de Nederlanden tot aan het jaar 1600. Achttien auteurs buigen zich over de liederen van onder meer hoofse minnezangers, mystici en Moderne Devoten, over de performance en de mondelinge overlevering van oude liederen, over intertekstualiteit en contrafactuur. Nieuw is het etnologisch perspectief dat een aantal auteurs hanteert.

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Historical Research into the Nobility during the Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Period in Belgium and the Netherlands: A SnapshotThis introduction to a special issue on the history of the nobility in the Netherlands and Belgium gives a 'snap-shot' of the subject in two different ways. On the one hand, the collected essays demonstrate the state-of-the-art in the research carried out in 2008 on the nobility, on the other, they focus on the mediaeval and early modern periods. The major themes and problems of this historiographical tradition are evoked, emerging from the study outlined in another special issue of a historical journal, the Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis of 1980, which looked at perspectives for future research. This introduction mainly examines the methods used by historians to confront inevitable questions such as: 'What exactly is the nobility?' and 'How can this historical phenomenon be situated within processes and historical movements such as economic structures and conjunctures, social mobility and political centralization and decentralization?'