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Author_Luc Duerloo
Bohemian Revolt
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confessional conflict studies
Consejo De Estado
Counter-Reformation politics
court
De Visscher
Discalced Carmelites
dynastic succession
early modern Europe
Ecclesiastical Electors
Elector Palatine
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Erycius Puteanus
European diplomatic history
Felipe III
habsburg
Habsburg Netherlands
Habsburg regime archival research
Habsburg Side
hispanica
Hugo Grotius
iii
John Sigismund
Louis XIII
Louise De Coligny
Lower Palatinate
Maximilian II
Mayordomo Mayor
netherlands
pax
philip
Philip III
regime
Rudolf II
spanish
Spanish Monarchy
Spanish Netherlands governance
Twelve Years
United Provinces
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- ISBN 9781138118485
- Weight: 1140g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip's daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands, one of the most dynamic yet politically unstable territories in early-modern Europe. Through an investigation of Albert's reign, this book offers a new and fuller understanding of international events of the time, and the Habsburg role in them. Drawing on a wide range of archival and visual material, the resulting study of Habsburg political culture demonstrates the large degree of autonomy enjoyed by the archducal regime, which allowed Albert and his entourage to exert a decisive influence on several crucial events: preparing the ground for the Anglo-Spanish peace of 1604 by the immediate recognition of King James, clearing the way for the Twelve Years' Truce by conditionally accepting the independence of the United Provinces, reasserting Habsburg influence in the Rhineland by the armed intervention of 1614 and devising the terms of the Oñate Treaty of 1617. In doing so the book shows how they sought to initiate a realistic policy of consolidation benefiting the Spanish Monarchy and the House of Habsburg. Whilst previous work on the subject has tended to concentrate on either the relationship between Spain and the Netherlands or between Spain and the Empire, this book offers a far deeper and much more nuanced insight in how the House of Habsburg functioned as a dynasty during these critical years of increasing religious tensions. Based on extensive research in the archives left by the archducal regime and its diplomatic partners or rivals, it bridges the gap between the reigns of Philip II and Philip IV and puts research into the period onto a fascinating new basis.
Luc Duerloo is professor of early modern political history at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published on the Habsburgs, the politics of piety and the Belgian nobility.
