Early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the low countries / edited by Raymond Fagel, Leonor Alvarez Frances and Beatriz Santiago Belmonte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fagel, R. P., editor.

Álvarez Francés, Leonor, editor.

Belmonte, Beatriz Santiago, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Studies in early modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions--Benelux countries.

Revolutions.

Benelux countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Manchester, MI : Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction: early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries

'Do not reveal that I wrote this': diplomatic correspondence, news and narratives in the early years of the civil war in the Low Countries

The fabrication of Francisco de Valdés: episodic narratives in Spanish and Dutch chronicles on the siege of Leiden (1573-74)

The year of the Furies: military correspondence around the Sack of Antwerp (1576)

'Lode della nazione italiana': Italian historians on the Spanish soldiers

Narrating mutiny in the army of Flanders: Cristóbal Rodríguez Alva's La inquieta Flandes (1594)

Orange's Spanish mulatto and other side-changers: narratives on Spanish defection during the Revolt in the Low Countries

How a defeat became a victory: the siege of Ostend in contemporary Dutch war coverage and post-war chronicles (1601-15)

North and south: a comparison of episodic war narratives during the Revolt in the Low Countries

Chaplains and soldiers: experience and narratives in the Low Countries (1567-1648)

'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

Geoffrey Parker's Universal Soldier revisited: European military history and human universals

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2020).

ISBN:

9781526140876

152614087X

Publisher Number:

40029913035

Access Restriction:

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