Dutch Revolts (1567–1648) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Revolts ( 1567–1648 ) The struggle by the Netherlands for independence from Spain. The Low Countries formed part of the Spanish empire but the tactlessness of the Council of Regency for Philip II alienated the local nobles, who were excluded from government. High taxation, unemployment, and Calvinist fears of Catholic persecution aroused dangerous opposition which the Duke of Alba came to crush ( 1567 ) with a reign of terror and punitive taxation. Open revolt led by William I (the Silent) followed. He avoided pitched battles with the superior...
Dutch Revolts
23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries Reference library
Paul Hoftijzer
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...used type of binding was made of plain, unadorned *vellum ( see 17 ). The combination of religious oppression, social and political unrest, and outright war in the second half of the 16 th century proved fatal to the cohesion of the Low Countries. Within twenty years the Dutch Revolt—started in 1568 as an uprising against the autocratic rule of Philip II of Spain —divided the region into two political entities: the Roman Catholic southern Netherlands, which remained first under Spanish, then Austrian Habsburg rule, and the northern provinces which...
Empire Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...settlers. Since the loyalty of such recent and involuntary subjects of the British Crown was inevitably uncertain, it was naturally feared that the erection of representative institutions might provide the forum for continuing frustration of British rule or even for revolt—revolt that might infect the increasingly tense relations between Britain and the nearby Thirteen Colonies. Moreover, the French settlers themselves, having been nurtured on the practices of the French absolutist state, found such representative institutions alien to their...
Humanity and Islam Reference library
‘Ali Shari‘ati
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...in the universe, capable of attaining salvation by obeying God and praying to Him through choice. And so, the praying of an unaware individual who can’t revolt, just like an animal, is useless. What is expected, then, is the obedience of someone who has sinned. And insan is the only creature in nature who can choose (and disobedience is indicative of the ability to choose). This is what Camus meant by revolt; either against a social order or against one's own nature; while Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” and Gide's “I feel, therefore I am” confirm the...
The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam Reference library
Muhammad Iqbal
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
... 2. The rise and growth of ascetic Sufism, which gradually developed under influences of a non- Islamic character, a purely speculative side, is to a large extent responsible for this attitude. On its purely religious side Sufism fostered a kind of revolt against the verbal quibbles of our early doctors. The case of [Abu ‘Abdallah] Sufyan Sauri [715–778] is an instance in point. He was one of the acutest legal minds of his time, and was nearly the founder of a school of law; but being also intensely spiritual, the dry-asdust...
22 The History of the Book in France Reference library
Vincent Giroud
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...an exclusive privilege to Théophraste Renaudot’s Gazette de France ( 1631 ). As controls grew, however, so did the inability of the authorities to enforce them, as shown by the massive pamphlet literature, printed and disseminated throughout France, that accompanied the revolt known as the Fronde ( 1649–52 )—more than 1,000 titles are recorded in its first and final years, many of them personal attacks on Mazarin, the prime minister, so that the term mazarinade was coined to describe them (he himself collected them). Among many glaring indications of...
Introduction to the Pentateuch Reference library
G. I. Davies
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...latter section being known as the Holiness Code = H). Numbers: The rest of the book, from 10:29 , is again a mixture of J, E, and P. E is most clearly present in the story of Balaam ( ch. 23 and some verses in 22 ). P provided the sections of chs. 16–18 that deal with the revolt of Korah and the vindication of the Aaronite priesthood, most of 25:6–36:13 , and some other passages; again older documents (including the wilderness itinerary in ch. 33 ) have been worked in. Deuteronomy: from the D source, with the exception of a few passages, mostly at the...
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