This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-90). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the government of Philip II in the Low Countries, and which became the ideological foundations of the Dutch Republic as it emerged as one of the main powers of Europe. It shows how notions of liberty, constitutionalism, representation and popular sovereignty were of central importance to the political thought and revolutionary events of the Dutch Revolt, giving rise to a distinct political theory of resistance, to fundamental debates on the 'best state' of the new Dutch commonwealth and to passionate disputes on the relationsh...
The campaign in the Low Countries led by governor-general Alexander Farnese from October 1578 onward...
"In 1649, Charles I was executed before Whitehall Palace in London. This event had a major impact no...
The frequent mutinies in the Army of Flanders confronted the Spanish-Habsburg authorities with both ...
By engaging with the vast body of pamphlet literature, rarely seen engravings and images, personal a...
Defence date: 25 November 1988Supervisor: Gisela Bock; Co-supervisor: Athanasios MoulakisPDF of thes...
Historiography of the Dutch Revolt has traditionally emphasised that it was painful and inopportune ...
This article compares the Flemish and Dutch revolts in order to distinguish patterns of rebelliousne...
The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutc...
The second half of the 16th century is regarded as the decisive moment in the history of the Low Cou...
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered glob...
textabstractThis thesis deals with the use of the concepts fatherland and patriot (and patria and na...
This article develops in-depth the ambivalence between dissent and peacemaking on the Eve of the Rev...
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishi...
Tradition and Enlightenment explores the significance of the political theory for the burgher in the...
Can a Revolt be Ennobling? Justification of the Political Opposition of the Nobility during the Flem...
The campaign in the Low Countries led by governor-general Alexander Farnese from October 1578 onward...
"In 1649, Charles I was executed before Whitehall Palace in London. This event had a major impact no...
The frequent mutinies in the Army of Flanders confronted the Spanish-Habsburg authorities with both ...
By engaging with the vast body of pamphlet literature, rarely seen engravings and images, personal a...
Defence date: 25 November 1988Supervisor: Gisela Bock; Co-supervisor: Athanasios MoulakisPDF of thes...
Historiography of the Dutch Revolt has traditionally emphasised that it was painful and inopportune ...
This article compares the Flemish and Dutch revolts in order to distinguish patterns of rebelliousne...
The Eighty Years War offers an insight into the military factors at play in the creation of the Dutc...
The second half of the 16th century is regarded as the decisive moment in the history of the Low Cou...
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered glob...
textabstractThis thesis deals with the use of the concepts fatherland and patriot (and patria and na...
This article develops in-depth the ambivalence between dissent and peacemaking on the Eve of the Rev...
In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein ’t Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishi...
Tradition and Enlightenment explores the significance of the political theory for the burgher in the...
Can a Revolt be Ennobling? Justification of the Political Opposition of the Nobility during the Flem...
The campaign in the Low Countries led by governor-general Alexander Farnese from October 1578 onward...
"In 1649, Charles I was executed before Whitehall Palace in London. This event had a major impact no...
The frequent mutinies in the Army of Flanders confronted the Spanish-Habsburg authorities with both ...