History 3313/9313: Reformation and Revolt in the
Low Countries
2008-09
Mon 2-4
25 Gordon Square, room 307
Prof. Benjamin Kaplan
25 Gordon Square, room 307
Office Hours: Mon 4.00-5.30
& by appointment
Phone: 7679-1338 (x 31338)
Email: b.kaplan@ucl.ac.uk
Homepage : http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucrabjk/
I. Description
This course examines the extraordinary religious and political upheavals that rocked
the Low Countries in the sixteenth century – the Protestant Reformation and the
Revolt against Spain. It pays special attention to what was distinctive about the
religious scene in the Low Countries: the protean character of the early Reformation
there, the mass following that Anabaptism won, the influence of Erasmus, the
unparalleled harshness of religious persecution, the ambitious `new bishoprics’
scheme for reforming the Catholic Church, the mass flight of Protestants into exile,
the uncompromising selectivity of the Dutch Reformed churches, the `Libertine’
resistance to Calvinist discipline, the controversy over predestination, and the
practice of toleration.
The course also looks for patterns behind the complex course of political events: the
attachment of Netherlanders to their `privileges’, their goals and justifications for
rebellion, the swing vote cast by the so-called `middle groups’, the dilemmas posed
by the question of sovereignty, and the functioning of the new republican polity that
formed in the northern provinces.
II. Format & Requirements
Languages and Prerequisites: no foreign languages are required, but students who can
read French or Latin (or Dutch) will have a much wider range of primary source
materials available to them, and thus a wider range of potential dissertation topics.
There are no formal prerequisites, and students are certainly not expected to have
studied Dutch history previously. However, they should have taken some kind of
survey, such as UCL’s Lecture Core Course, that covered early modern Europe
and/or Britain. Studies who are uncertain about the adequacy of their background
knowledge should consult the instructor.
We will meet once a week for two hours of discussion. For each meeting, you will
need to have read (a) all Sources assigned for the week, and (b) enough secondary
Literature to be able to contextualize and understand the Sources. Though the
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quantity and precise items of Literature you choose to read each week are up to you,
it is very important to realize that you cannot expect to understand the Sources
adequately without such reading, which includes the relevant chapters from the
General Readings listed below as well as items listed under the specialized
Literature for each week. Be sure, therefore, to schedule adequate time for this
reading.
To explore a particular topic more deeply, a list of further readings can be found in
the Bibliography of Works in English mentioned below.
All Sources are available either online or as photocopies distributed to students at the
first meeting. Please bring hard copy of all assigned Sources with you to our
meetings; if the item is available online, please make your own printout and bring it.
Most of the relevant Secondary Literature is available in the UCL Main Library; the
rest is available at the University of London’s Senate House Library, the British
Library, or one of the other libraries in Bloomsbury (IHR, Warburg, Advanced Legal
Studies).
Assessment: one unit will be assessed by a 10,000-word dissertation, the other by a
three-hour examination in a standard Group 3 format with a combination of
analytical questions to be answered and quotations from primary sources (`gobbets’)
to be commented upon.
Non-assessed work: students will be required to write over the autumn and spring
terms several short (500-word) source analyses. In addition, they will be required to
submit in January a written proposal for their 10,000-word long essay, and in March
to do a presentation in class on their dissertation topic.
III. General Readings
Arblaster, Paul. A History of the Low Countries (Basingstoke, 2006), ch. 3.
Benedict et al., Philip, eds. Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the
Netherlands, 1555-1585. Amsterdam, 1995.
Blom, J.C.H. & E. Lamberts, eds., History of the Low Countries (Oxford, 1999), chs.
3/3 and 4/1-3.
Clark, G. N. The Birth of the Dutch Republic (London, 1975)
Darby, Graham, ed. The Origins and Development of the Dutch Revolt (2001)
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990)
Geyl, Pieter. The Revolt of the Netherlands, 1555-1609 (London, 1932)
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), chs. 1-20.
Kistemaker, Renee. Amsterdam: The Golden Age, 1275-1795, chs. 2-3
Limm, Peter. The Dutch Revolt, 1559-1648 (London, 1989)
Nierop, Henk van. `Similar problems, different outcomes: the Revolt of the
Netherlands and the Wars of Religion in France’, in A Miracle Mirrored: The
Dutch Republic in European Perspective, ed. K. Davids and J. Lucassen
(Cambridge, 1995), 26-56
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Smit, J.W. `The Netherlands Revolution’, in Preconditions of Revolution in Early
Modern Europe, ed. R. Forster and J. Greene (Baltimore, 1970)
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977).
Parker, Geoffrey. Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659: Ten Studies (1979)
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in
the Golden Age (1987), Part I
You may wish to consider purchasing Parker’s The Dutch Revolt and/or Israel’s The
Dutch Republic, as well as Darby’s The Origins and Development of the Dutch
Revolt. All are available in paperback and give much-needed overviews (Parker and
Israel chronological, Darby thematic) of a long series of complicated events.
For more specialized literature, see the Bibliography of Works in English at my
homepage: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucrabjk/. There you will also find,
listed under this course, the following aids to study and research:
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Chronology
Glossary
Maps
Links to Images (includes links to all assigned images listed in the Schedule
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Sources in English
English Tracts 1566-87
IV. Schedule of Classes & Readings
The following abbreviations are used:
Brandt = Geeraert [Gerard] Brandt, The History of the Reformation and other
Ecclesiastical Transactions in and about the Low-Countries…., 4 vols.
(London 1720-23) [ECCO]
Kossman & Mellink = E.H. Kossman and A.F. Mellink, eds., Texts concerning the
Revolt of the Netherlands (Cambridge, 1974), available in print or at
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/koss002text01_01/index.htm
Rowen = Herbert H. Rowen, ed., The Low Countries in Early Modern Times (New
York, 1972)
Selected Documents = Selected documents for the Reformation and the Revolt of
the Low Countries, 1555-1609, ed. by Alastair Duke, available (only) at
http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/English/default.htm
Van Gelderen = Martin van Gelderen, ed., The Dutch Revolt, Cambridge Texts in
the History of Political Thought (Cambridge, 1993)
Zwart-wit = Daniel R. Horst, De Opstand in zwart-wit. Propagandaprenten uit de
Nederlandse Opstand 1566-1584 (Zutphen, 2003). Available in print or online
via the “Links to Images” link on my homepage.
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ECCO = Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Available via UCL Library
Services: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/database/index.shtml
EEBO = Early English Books Online. Ditto.
1. Introduction to the Course Material
2. Designing a Dissertation
3. Government and Society Before the Revolt
Sources:
Lodovico Guicciardini, The description of the Low countreys… (London, 1593)
[EEBO], 15r-21v, 49v-50v
Holy Roman Empire, The ioyfull entrie of the Dukedome of Brabant (London,
1581) [EEBO], prologue, articles 1-3, 5-9, 17-18, 28, 45, 53-54, 57-8
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 1, first part
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), chs. 2, 4 & 6
Duke, Alastair. "The Elusive Netherlands. The question of national identity in
the Early Modern Low Countries on the Eve of the Revolt." Bijdragen en
Mededelingen van het Historisch Genootschap 119, no. 1 (2004): 10-38.
Tracy, James D. Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566 the formation of a
body politic (Berkeley, 1990), chs 1-5
Koenigsberger, H.G. "The States-General of the Netherlands before the Revolt."
In Estates and revolutions essays in early modern European history, ed. H.
G Koenigsberger, chap. 4. Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1971.
Uytven, R. van. "What is New Socially and Economically in the SixteenthCentury Netherlands," Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 7 (1974)
Prevenier, W., and W. Blockmans, The Burgundian Netherlands, pp. 11-46, 12787, 313-32, 351-60
4. Erasmus and Christian Humanism
Sources:
Desiderius Erasmus, The Handbook of the Militant Christian, from John P. Dolan,
ed., The Essential Erasmus (New York, 1964), pp. 24-93
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Literature:
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 3
Paul O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: the Classic, Scholastic, and Humanistic
Strains, chs. 1 and 4
Cameron, James K. "Humanism in the Low Countries." In The impact of
humanism on Western Europe, ed. Anthony Goodman, and Angus MacKay,
chap. 7. London, New York: Longman, 1990.
Augustijn, Cornelis. Erasmus: His Life, Works, and Influence (Toronto, 1991)
Grafton, Anthony, and Lisa Jardine. From Humanism to the Humanities:
Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe.
Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Ch. 6
Post, R. R. The Modern Devotion: Confrontation with reformation and
humanism. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968.
Gelder, H. A. Enno van. The two reformations in the 16th century: a study of the
religious aspects and consequences of Renaissance and humanism. The
Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1961.
Mout, M. E. H. N., H. Smolinsky, and J. Trapman. Erasmianism: Idea and
Reality. Amsterdam: KNAW, 1997.
5. The Early Reformation in the Low Countries
Sources:
Brandt 1:35-80
Thieleman van Braght, The Bloody Theater or Martyr’s Mirror, available at
http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index-old.htm, “Weynken,” “Peter
Koster,” “Edict of Charles V,” “Anna of Rotterdam”
Literature:
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 5
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), chs. 1-5
Arblaster, Paul. `”Totius Mundi Emporium”: Antwerp as a Centre for Vernacular
Bible Translations 1523-1545’, in The Low Countries as a Crossroads of
Religious Beliefs, ed. Arie-Jan Gelderblom et al. (Leiden, 2004), 9-31
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism
in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Baltimore, 1996), ch. 4
Tracy, James D. Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566 the formation of a
body politic (Berkeley, 1990), chs 1-5
Toussaert, Jacques. Le sentiment religieux en Flandre à la fin du Moyen-Âge.
Paris: Plon, 1963.
Waite, Gary K.. "The Anabaptist Movement in Amsterdam and the Netherlands,
1531-1535: An Initial Investigation into Its Genesis and Social Dynamics."
Sixteenth Century Journal 18 (1987): 249-68.
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Augustijn, Cornelis. "Anabaptism in the Netherlands: Another Look." Mennonite
Quarterly Review 62 (1988): 197-210.
Waite, Gary K. David Joris and Dutch Anabaptism, 1524-1543. Waterloo, Ont.,
Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990.
Tracy, James. "Heresy Law and Centralization in Habsburg Holland: Conflicts
Between the Council of Holland and the Central Government under Mary of
Hungary," Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 73 (1982): 284-308.
Verheyden, A. L. E. Anabaptism in Flanders, 1530-1650. Scottsdale, 1961.
6. Artists, Rhetoricians, and Popular Piety
Sources:
“Everyman,” from Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, ed. A.C. Cawley
(London, 1956), pp. 206-34
--also available at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/everyman.html
Symon Andriessoon, Duytsche Adagia ofte Spreecwoorden, ed. Mark A. Meadow
and Anneke C.G. Fleurkens (Hilversum, 2003), pp. 58-64
Images (all by Pieter Bruegel the Elder):
 Big Fish Eat Little Fish
 Everyman
 Faith
 Avarice
 Temperance
Literature:
John J. Murray, Antwerp in the Age of Plantin and Bruegel, chs. 6-7
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism
in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Baltimore, 1996), ch. 3
Veldman, Ijla M. Maarten van Heemskerk and Dutch Humanism in the SixteenthCentury. Maarssen, 1977.
Gibson, Walter S. Bruegel. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1985.
Panofsky, Erwin. "Erasmus and the Visual Arts." Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes 32 (1969).
Waite, Gary K.. "Reformers on stage: Rhetorician drama and Reformation
propaganda in the Netherlands of Charles V, 1519-1555." Archiv für
Reformationsgeschichte 83 (1992): 209-39.
Stock, Jan van der. Antwerp, story of a metropolis: 16th-17th century (Ghent,
1993), esp. essays by Francine de Nave and Marcus de Schepper
Mark Meadow, Peter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs and the
Practice of Rhetoric
Bruaene, Anne-Laure van. " Brotherhood and Sisterhood in the Chambers of
Rhetoric in the Southern Low Countries." Sixteenth Century Journal 36, no.
1 (2005): 11-35.
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7. Evangelical Élan Meets Counter-Reformation Zeal
Sources:
Selected documents #1-6
Brandt 1:111-19, 131-44
Literature:
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), ch. 7
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism
in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Baltimore, 1996), ch. 5
Mout, N. "Armed Resistance and Calvinism during the Revolt of the
Netherlands." In Church, Change, and Revolution: Transactions of the
Fourth Anglo-Dutch Church History Colloquium, Exeter, 30 August-3
September 1988, ed. Johannes van den Hoftijzer P. G Berg, 57-68. Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 1991.
Duke, Alastair. "The `Inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the
Habsburg Netherlands (1521-1566)." In L'inquisizione. Atti del Simposio
internazionale, Cittŕ del Vaticano, 29-31 ottobre 1998, Agostino Borromeo,
419-43. Cittŕ del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2003.
Woltjer, Juliaan. `Public Opinion and the Persecution of Heretics in the
Netherlands, 1550-59’, in Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the
Early Modern Netherlands, ed. J. Pollmann & A. Spicer (Leiden, 2007), 87106
Pollmann, Judith. "Countering the Reformation in France and the Netherlands:
Clerical Leadership and Catholic Violence 1560 –1585 ." Past and Present
190 (2006): 83-120.
Tracy, James D.. "A Premature Counter Reformation: The Dirkist Government of
Amsterdam, 1538-1578." Journal of Religious History 13 (1984): 150-167.
8. Privileges and Protest, 1559-65
Sources:
Kossman & Mellink #1-6 (pp. 53-75)
Brandt 1:145-68
Images:
Zwart-wit illustr. #1, 2, 3
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 1
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 7
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), ch. 8
Woltjer, J. J. "Dutch Privileges, Real and Imaginary." In Britian and the
Netherlands, J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann,Vol. 5. The Hague, 1975.
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Tracy, James D. Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566 the formation of a
body politic (Berkeley, 1990), ch. 7
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism
in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Baltimore, 1996), ch. 5
Duke, Alastair. `Dissident Propaganda and Political Organization at the Outbreak
of the Revolt of the Netherlands’, in Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in
France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585, ed. Philip Benedict et al.
(Amsterdam, 1999), 115-32
Nierop, Henk van. "A Beggar's Banquet: The Compromise of the Nobility and
Politics of Inversion." European History Quarterly 21 (1991): 419-43.
Rowen, Herbert H.. "The Dutch Revolt: What Kind of Revolution?" Renaissance
Quarterly 43 (1990): 570-90.
Koenigsberger, H. G. "Orange, Granvelle and Philip II." In Politics and society
in Reformation Europe essays for Sir Geoffrey Elton on his sixty-fifth
birthday, ed. G. R Elton, Tom Scott, and E. I Kouri. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1987.
9. The `Wonder Year’ (1566)
Sources:
Selected documents #9-16, 18
Kossman & Mellink #7-9
Images:
Zwart-wit illustr. #4
Frans Hogenberg, The Iconoclasm of 1566
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, John the Baptist Preaching
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 2
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), ch. 6
Marnef, Guido. Antwerp in the Age of Reformation: Underground Protestantism
in a Commercial Metropolis, 1550-1577 (Baltimore, 1996), ch. 6
Crew, Phyllis Mack. Calvinist preaching and iconoclasm in the Netherlands,
1544-1569 (Cambridge, 1973)
———. "The Wonderyear: Reformed Preaching and Iconoclasm in the
Netherlands." In Religion and the people, 800-1700, ed. Jim Obelkevich,
191-220. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Marnef, Guido. `The Dynamics of Reformed Religious Militancy: The
Netherlands, 1566-1585’, in Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France
and the Netherlands, 1555-1585, ed. Philip Benedict et al. (Amsterdam,
1999), 51-68
Nierop, Henk van. `The Nobility and the Revolt of the Netherlands: Between
Church and King, and Protestantism and Privileges’, in Reformation, Revolt
and Civil War in France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585, ed. Philip Benedict
et al. (Amsterdam, 1999), 83-98
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10. The Development of Dutch Protestantism Abroad, 1555-71
Sources:
Marten Micronius, A short and faythful instruction, gathered out of holy
Scripture… (Emden, 1556) [EEBO]
Selected documents #21-22
Philips van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, The Bee hiue of the Romish Church
(London, 1598; orig. Dutch 1569) [EEBO], chs. 6 & 11 (pp. 54r-57v, 67v70v)
Literature:
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 8
Kaplan, Benjamin J. "Dutch Particularism and the Calvinist Quest for "Holy
Uniformity"." Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation
History 82 (1991): 239-56.
Lindeboom, J. Austin Friars: The History of the Dutch Reformed Church in
London, 1550-1950. The Hague, 1950.
Pettegree, Andrew. Emden and the Dutch Revolt: Exile and the Development of
Reformed Protestantism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
———. Foreign Protestant Communities in Sixteenth-Century London. 1986.
———. "The Exile Churches and the Churches `under the Cross': Antwerp and
Emden during the Dutch Revolt." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 38
(1987).
Schilling, Heinz. "Innovation through Migration: The Settlements of Calvinistic
Netherlanders in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Central and Western
Europe." Histoire sociale (Social History) 16 (1983): 7-33.
Grell, Ole Peter. Calvinist Exiles in Tudor and Stuart London. Aldershot, 1996.
11. The New Order in Rebel Holland, 1572-75
Sources:
Selected documents #23-31 (#27 only entries 1-33)
Kossman & Mellink #14-21
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 3
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 9 & 10 through p. 184
Duke, Alastair. Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990), ch. 9
Hibben, C. C. Gouda in revolt particularism and pacifism in the revolt of the
Netherlands 1572-1588 (Utrecht, 1983).
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Grayson, Christopher. "The Civic Militia in the County of Holland, 1560-1581:
Politics and Public Order in the Dutch Revolt." Bijdragen en mededelingen
betreffende de Gesschiedenis der Nederlanden 95 (1980): 35-63.
Kooi, Christine. Liberty and religion: church and state in Leiden's Reformation,
1572-1620 (Leiden, 2000), ch. 2
Swart, K. W. William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572-84.
Abingdon: Ashgate, 2003. Ch. 1
Pettegree, Andrew. "Coming to Terms with Victory: The Upbuilding of a
Calvinist Church in Holland, 1572-1590." In Calvinism in Europe, 15401620, eds. Andrew Pettegree, Alastair Duke, and Gillian Lewis, 160-80.
Cambridge, 1994.
Nierop, H. van. 'And Ye Shall Hear of Wars and Rumours of Wars'. Rumour and
the Revolt of the Netherlands’. In Judith Pollmann, and Andrew Spicer, eds.
Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern Netherlands.
Leiden: Brill, 2006.
12. The “Fatherland” Briefly United, 1576-78
Sources:
Kossman & Mellink #23-30, 32-33
Images:
Zwart-wit illustr. #53, 54, 56, 59, 64, 66
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 4
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 10 from p. 184
Boogman, J. C.. "The Union of Utrecht: Its Genesis and Consequences."
Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 94
(1975): 377-407.
Woltjer, J.J. `Political Moderates and Religious Moderates in the Revolt of the
Netherlands’ in Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the
Netherlands, 1555-1585, ed. Philip Benedict et al. (Amsterdam, 1999), pp.
185-200
Jong, O. J. de. "Union and religion." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 14 (1981).
Sawyer, Andrew. `Medium and Message. Political Prints in the Dutch Republic,
1568-1632’, in Public Opinion and Changing Identities in the Early Modern
Netherlands, ed. J. Pollmann & A. Spicer (Leiden, 2007), 163-87
Swart, K. W. "The Black Legend during the Eighty Years War." In Britain and
the Netherlands, ed. J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann,Vol. 5. The Hague,
1975.
Monica Stensland. "Not as bad as all that: the strategies and effectiveness of
loyalist propaganda in the early years of Alexander Farnese's governorship."
Dutch Crossings 31, no. 1 (2007): 91-112.
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13. Revolutionary Reformations
Sources:
Rowen #4 (pp. 16-25)
Kossman & Mellink #34-36, 46, 51, 56
Brandt 1:341-5, 353-62
Selected documents #36
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), ch. 4
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), ch. 10 from p. 184
Swart, K. W. William of Orange and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1572-84.
Abingdon: Ashgate, 2003. Esp. chs. 2-3.
Wittman, Tibor. Les Gueux dans les "Bonnes Villes" de Flandre (1577-1584).
Budapest, 1969.
Johan Decavele, ed. Ghent: in defence of a rebellious city: history, art, culture.
Antwerp: Mercatorfonds, 1989.
Boone, Marc, and Maarten Prak, `Rulers, patricians and burghers: the Great and
the Little traditions of urban revolt in the Low Countries’, in Davids and
Lucasen, eds., A miracle mirrored, pp. 99-134
Henri Pirenne, Early Democracies in the Low Countries: Urban Society and
Political Conflict in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (orig. 1963), esp.
chs. 9-10s
14. Theories of Sovereignty and Resistance
Sources:
Kossman & Mellink #48-50, 57, 63
Van Gelderen, `Political Education’ (pp. 165-226)
Literature:
Gelderen, Martin van. The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt, 1555-1590.
Cambridge, 1992.
———. "Conceptions of Liberty during the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590."
Parliaments, Estates, and Representations 2 (1989).
———. “The Position of the States in the Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt."
Parliaments, Estates and Representations 7 (1987).
Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols.
(Cambridge, 1978), esp. vol. 2, pp. 302-48.
Kossmann, Ernst H.. "Popular Sovereignty at the Beginning of the Dutch Ancien
Regime." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 14 (1981).
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Duke, A.C. "From King and Country to King of Country? Loyalty and Treason in
the Revolt of the Netherlands." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
32 (1982): 113-35.
Blom, H. W. "The Great Privilege (1477) as `Code of Dutch Freedom': the
Political Role of Privileges in the Dutch Revolt and after." In Das Privileg
im europäischen Vergleich, eds. B. Dölemeyer and H. Mohnhaupt, 233-47.
Frankfurt am Main, 1997.
Harline, Craig E. Pamphlets, printing, and political culture in the early Dutch
Republic. Dordrecht, Boston: M. Nijhoff, 1987.
Schöffer, Ivo. "The Batavian Myth during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries." In Britain and the Netherlands, ed. J. S Bromley, and E. H
Kossmann,Vol. 5. The Hague, 1975.
15. The New State, 1579Sources:
Kossman & Mellink #28, 37, 45, 52, 58-59, 61, 64-65, 67
Van Gelderen, `Short Exposition’ (pp. 227-38)
Literature:
Parker, Geoffrey. The Dutch revolt (1977), chs. 5-6
Israel, Jonathan I. The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806
(Oxford, 1995), chs. 11, (12), 13 (& 15)
Adams, Simon. "Elizabeth I and the Sovereignty of the Netherlands 1576-1585."
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 14 (2004): 309-19.
Kaplan, Benjamin J. Calvinists and Libertines: Confession and Community in
Utrecht, 1578-1620. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Chapter 4.
Oosterhoff, F. G. Leicester and the Netherlands 1586-1587. Utrecht: HES, 1988.
Hibben, C. C. Gouda in revolt particularism and pacifism in the revolt of the
Netherlands 1572-1588. Utrecht: HES, 1983.
Tex, Jan den. Oldenbarnevelt 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1973), vol. 1
Deursen, A. Th. van. "Between unity and independence: the application of the
Union as a fundamental law." Acta Historiae Neerlandicae 14 (1981).
Wansink, Hans. "Holland and Six Allies: The Republic of the Seven United
Provinces." In Britain and the Netherlands, ed. J. S Bromley, and E. H
Kossmann,Vol. 4. The Hague, 1971.
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States of Overyssel 1566-1600. Amsterdam, 1982.
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19. Dissertation Topic Presentations (I)
20. Dissertation Topic Presentations (II)