Early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries

Herausgeber: Belmonte, Beatriz Santiago; Francés, Leonor Álvarez; Fagel, Raymond

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567-1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very different intentions. Over time the plethora of sources and interpretations faded away, leaving us with opposing canonical narratives. The Dutch and Spanish national myths were forged on the basis of two visions of the conflict: as a liberation war against cruel Spanish oppressors and as a glorious episode in the history of the Spanish Empire. This volume delves into the early, seemingly anecdotal stories of the war to map the great variety and interconnection of the narratives. It asks such questions as how did the Jesuits write about the Revolt, what can we find in Italian chronicles and how did the war look from the perspective of a local nobleman or a Spanish commander?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781526140869
• ISBN-10: 1526140861
• Artikelnr.: 57163540

Autorenporträt

Raymond Fagel is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Leiden University Leonor Álvarez Francés is a PhD Researcher at Leiden University Beatriz Santiago Belmontea is a PhD Researcher at Leiden University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries
Raymond Fagel 1 'Do not reveal that I wrote this': diplomatic correspondence, news and narratives in the early years of the civil war in the Low Countries
M. J. Rodriguez
Salgado 2 The fabrication of Francisco de Valdés: episodic narratives in Spanish and Dutch chronicles on the siege of Leiden (1573
4)
Leonor Álvarez Francés 3 The year of the Furies: military correspondence around the Sack of Antwerp (1576)
Beatriz Santiago Belmonte 4 'Lode della nazione italiana': Italian historians on the Spanish soldiers
Cees Reijner 5 Narrating mutiny in the Army of Flanders: Cristóbal Rodríguez Alva's La inquieta Flandes (1594)
Miguel Martínez 6 Orange's Spanish mulatto and other side
changers: narratives on Spanish defection during the Revolt in the Low Countries
Raymond Fagel 7 How a defeat became a victory: the siege of Ostend in contemporary Dutch war coverage and post
war chronicles (1601
15)
Werner Thomas 8 North and South: a comparison of episodic war narratives during the Revolt in the Low Countries
Jasper van der Steen 9 Chaplains and soldiers: experience and narratives in the Low Countries (1567
1648)
Vincenzo Lavenia 10 '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
Raingard Esser and Dániel Moerman 11 Geoffrey Parker's Universal Soldier revisited: European military history and human universals
Gregory Hanlon Index