16: The Dutch Revolt (Part One)

Core readings for part two's discussion: Cruz, Laura. “Turning Dutch: Historical Myths in Early Modern Netherlands.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2008, pp. 3–22. Duke, Alastair. “From King and Country to King or Country? Loyalty and Treason in the Revolt of the Netherlands.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 32, Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 113–35. Waxman, Matthew C. “Strategic Terror: Philip II and Sixteenth-Century Warfare.” War in History, vol. 4, no. 3, Sage Publications, Ltd., 1997, pp. 339–47. Further reading: Rowen, Herbert H. “The Dutch Revolt: What Kind of Revolution?” Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 3, [The University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society of America], 1990, pp. 570–90. Spicer, Andrew. “After Iconoclasm: Reconciliation and Resacralization in the Southern Netherlands, ca. 1566–85.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2013, pp. 411–33. Walsh, Thomas. Phillip II, New York, 1937.