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Charles V, the Renaissance emperor whose far-flung international dominion startled contemporaries and inspired a renewed interest in imperial symbols and ideas, was born in Ghent, the most particularistic Low Country city and a hotbed of political agitation for entrenched privileges.2 Although Charles's empire was fragmented and decentralized, and his governorship highly localized, no few observers in the early sixteenth century hailed him as an all new and powerful dominus mundi. Swift upon his election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, Charles's own chancellor Gattinara reminded him that: God has granted you a most wonderful grace and raised you above all the kings and all the princes of Christendom to a power hitherto enjoyed only by your ancestor Charlemagne. He has set you on the way towards a world monarchy, towards the gathering of all Christendom under a single shepherd. 3 These were heady works for a young ruler, new to the sweep of his power, inadequately poised to confront both strife within Christendom and the administrative and military task of empire abroad. Imperial bombast hardly befitted Charles's native city, Ghent. Since the time of Jacob and Philip van Artevelde, Ghent had earned a reputation as a city full of hot-headed partisans of local interests, so much so that the author of an

The emperor and the city: the cultural politics of the joyous entry in early sixteenth century Ghent and Flanders.