Conflicting Words : The Peace Treaty of Münster (1648) and the Political Culture of the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Monarchy
Laura. Manzano Baena
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Leuven : : Leuven University Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (284 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Conflicting Words; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Rebels; Confronting rebellion; Religion and revolt: The United Provinces; The Spanish attitude towards rebellion; 'No reason to revolt': Privileges and rebellion; Sacrilege and rebellion; Negotiating with rebels in an international setting: From Cologne to Münster; Chapter 2. Tyrants; Tyranny's two faces and the problem of tyrannicide; Fighting usurpers: Defining the tyrant in the Spanish Monarchy; The usurper's unjust rule; Distinguishing between impious tyrants and misguided rulers. - Chapter 5. Negotiating religious coexistence and tolerationThe politics of confessionalization; The Spanish Monarchy and its confessional reason of state; From the 'Arminian troubles' to William ii's stadholderate: Religious allegiances and politics in the United Provinces; Religious tolerance and confessional coexistence; Tolerance as (the lesser) evil; Dutch tolerance and its limits; The Dutch Republic and its Catholic subjects: negotiating coexistence in Den Bosch; Chapter 6. An invalid conclusion or a peace not meant to last (but which did); Bibliography; Index; Avisos de Flandes. - Defying tyrannical rule in the Low Countries and CataloniaThe tyrant's intolerable behaviour; Violators of legal and moral order; Tyrants of all the world; Trusting the tyrant's word: The Dutch road to Münster; Chapter 3. Authority; Sources, extension and limits to kingly power in the Spanish Monarchy; The power of kings; The dynasty and political power; Law, grace and the exercise of power; The morals of power; No king but a Catholic king; Ordered and disordered love; Refashioning authority in the United Provinces; Defining political authority. - The peace negotiations with the Spanish Monarchy as a catalyst for internal strifeProvinces at odds; The Orange family, its aristocratic ideology and the Spanish Monarchy; Chapter 4. Negotiating sovereignty; Hispanic attempts at a protectorate over the United Provinces (1628-1632); Relinquishing sovereignty: The Treaty of Munster (1648); The incomplete Republic; A patrimonial concept of sovereignty; Transferring the rights over the Low Countries; Negotiating spiritual sovereignty; Monarchia in Ecclesia; The Dutch Republic and the problem of spiritual sovereignty. - The Peace of Münster, signed between the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces in 1648, went against the political culture of both polities. The fact that the Spanish Monarchy definitively accepted the independence of its former subjects clearly negated the policy put forward by the Monarchy during the 'eighty'' years that the war lasted and to the Monarchy''s declared main goals. For the United Provinces, signing a peace with the archenemy without having brought liberty and religious freedom to ten of the seventeen provinces that formed part of the ancient Burgundian circle was also cons
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| ISBN | 9789058678676
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