Lille and the Dutch Revolt

This comprehensive study explains why Lille was renowned for adhering to the existing order.

List of contents

List of tables; List of figures; Abbreviations; Notes; Acknowledgements; Introduction: cities and the Dutch revolt; Part I. Forces of Revolt and Stabilising Structures: 1. Magistrat, city and central state; 2. 'Substantial merchants conducting important trade'; 3. 'Cloth of every type and price'; 4. Impoverishment and intervention; 5. Piety and the parameters of reform; Epilogue: stress and stability; Part II. Revolution and Stability: 6. A city's 'fine duty'; 7. 'Tramping and oppression': Lille under Alba and Requesens, 1566-7; 8. From 'common cause' to 'special league': Lille between estates-general and reconciliation, 1576-82; Conclusion: stability in revolution.

Summary

This comprehensive study explains why, although affected by powerful economic, political, and religious currents that provoked rebellion in many other cities in the sixteenth century, Lille was renowned for adhering to the existing order.

Product details

• Authors: Robert S. Duplessis
• Assisted by: John Elliott (Editor), Olwen Hufton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2015
• EAN: 9780521394154
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39415-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 785 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History