Download or read book The Low Countries in the Sixteenth Century written by James D. Tracy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 16th century, the people of the Low Countries (modern Belgium and The Netherlands), the most urbanized and best educated in Transalpine Europe, provided a ready audience for ideas of religious reform and a sophisticated political framework for the airing of the great debates of the age. The present volume reproduces fourteen essays in which James Tracy studies different aspects of Low Countries culture.