Conflicting Words : The Peace Treaty of Münster (1648) and the Political Culture of the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Monarchy / Laura Manzano Baena.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzano Baena, Laura.

Series:

Avisos de Flandes ; 13.

Avisos de Flandes ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Peace.

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648.

Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648--Diplomatic history.

Netherlands--Foreign relations--Spain.

Netherlands.

Spain--Foreign relations--Netherlands.

Spain.

Peace of Westphalia (1648).

Peace of Westphalia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Portraying the political culture of both the Catholic Monarchy and the United Provinces, this work analyses the views held in both territories concerning the points which were discussed in pamphlets and treatises published during the peace negotiations. It also traces the origin of the arguments presented, showing how they were transformed during the period under study, and discusses their influence, or presence, in the diplomatic negotiations among the ambassadors of the United Provinces and the Catholic Monarchy in the German town of Münster. These discussions are inserted in the wider framework of a Christian realm that had to reassess its own values as a consequence of the confessionalisation process and the Thirty Years' War, which affected not only the Empire but, in one way or another, all Central and Western Europe.

Contents:

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-278) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-092-8

OCLC:

873808620