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Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt

Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt

Nierop, Henk Van
Grayson, J. C.

Paperback

General European HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0691178046
ISBN13: 9780691178042
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Dec 31 2017
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and named their principals--a witch-hunt that eventually led to a young Catholic lawyer named Jan Jeroenszoon.


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