Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700
Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

Author: Hugh Dunthorne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1107244315

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England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just statesmen and diplomats but also soldiers, merchants, religious refugees, journalists, travellers and students into the conflict. Hugh Dunthorne draws on pamphlet literature to reveal how British contemporaries viewed the progress of their near neighbours' rebellion, and assesses the lasting impact which the Revolt and the rise of the Dutch Republic had on Britain's domestic history. The book explores affinities between the Dutch Revolt and the British civil wars of the seventeenth century - the first major challenges to royal authority in modern times - showing how much Britain's changing commercial, religious and political culture owed to the country's involvement with events across the North Sea.

Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560-1700
Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560-1700

Author: Hugh Dunthorne

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0521837472

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This book reveals the lasting impact of the Dutch Revolt on Britain's commercial, religious and political culture.

The Frigid Golden Age
The Frigid Golden Age

Author: Dagomar Degroot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108317588

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Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming.

The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590
The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590

Author: Martin van Gelderen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-10-03

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780521891639

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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 relationship between church and state which prompted some of the most eloquent early modern pleas for religious toleration.

From Revolt to Riches
From Revolt to Riches

Author: Theo Hermans

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2017-03-28

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1910634875

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This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history. The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.

Rumours of Revolt
Rumours of Revolt

Author: Rosanne M. Baars

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 9004423338

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This book explores the reception of foreign news during the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, shedding new light on the connections between these conflicts and demonstrating the emergence of critical news audiences.

Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic
Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

Author: Esther van Raamsdonk

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-13

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1000171868

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The tumultuous relations between Britain and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century provide the backdrop to this book, striking new ground as its transnational framework permits an overview of their intertwined culture, politics, trade, intellectual exchange, and religious debate. How the English and Dutch understood each other is coloured by these factors, and revealed through an imagological method, charting the myriad uses of stereotypes in different genres and contexts. The discussion is anchored in a specific context through the lives and works of John Milton and Andrew Marvell, whose complex connections with Dutch people and society are investigated. As well as turning overdue attention to neglected Dutch writers of the period, the book creates new possibilities for reading Milton and Marvell as not merely English, but European poets.