In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordshi

The first scholarly biography of William the Silent published in English for fifty years, William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572-1584 is inva

The Dutch revolt against Spanish rule in the sixteenth century was a formative event in European history. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt brings

This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplina

Based on Spanish and Dutch documents from archive and private collections from all over Europe, The Dutch Revolt takes into account religions and economic, as w