Lille and the Dutch Revolt - Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582

Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Robert S. Duplessis, Robert S. (Swarthmore College Duplessis
• Assisted by: John Elliott (Editor), Olwen Hufton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.05.2002
• EAN: 9780521894173
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89417-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History