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The Revolt in the Low Countries is one of the major conflicts of early modern Europe. Though it is mostly seen as a war between the Dutch and the Spanish, in reality it was a complex civil war with international involvement. This book returns to the original war narratives of the period, re-establis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fagel, R. P. (Editor ), Álvarez Francés, Leonor (Editor ), Belmonte, Beatriz Santiago (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, MI : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Colección:Studies in early modern European history.
Temas:
Revolutions > Benelux countries.
Révolutions > Benelux.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Revolutions
Benelux countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction: early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries
  • 'Do not reveal that I wrote this': diplomatic correspondence, news and narratives in the early years of the civil war in the Low Countries
  • The fabrication of Francisco de Valdés: episodic narratives in Spanish and Dutch chronicles on the siege of Leiden (1573-74)
  • The year of the Furies: military correspondence around the Sack of Antwerp (1576)
  • 'Lode della nazione italiana': Italian historians on the Spanish soldiers
  • Narrating mutiny in the army of Flanders: Cristóbal Rodríguez Alva's La inquieta Flandes (1594)
  • Orange's Spanish mulatto and other side-changers: narratives on Spanish defection during the Revolt in the Low Countries
  • How a defeat became a victory: the siege of Ostend in contemporary Dutch war coverage and post-war chronicles (1601-15)
  • North and south: a comparison of episodic war narratives during the Revolt in the Low Countries
  • Chaplains and soldiers: experience and narratives in the Low Countries (1567-1648)
  • 'Was bis daher gepassiert solt vergessen und vergeben sein': cross-border nobleman Sweder Schele's (1569-1639) accounts of army commanders during the Revolt in the Low Countries and Thirty Years' War
  • Geoffrey Parker's Universal Soldier revisited: European military history and human universals
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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