Revolt of the Netherlands Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... of the Netherlands ( 1567–1609 ). In the early 1550s the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands were territories of the duchy of Burgundy. The duke was the Emperor Charles V , and the duchy of Burgundy was part of the Holy Roman Empire ; the regent of the Netherlands was Charles's sister Mary of Hungary . In October 1555 Charles abdicated his dukedom and Mary resigned her regency. The new duke of Burgundy was Charles's son King Philip II of Spain. In August 1559 Philip left the Netherlands, never to return, and appointed as his regent his...
Revolt of the Netherlands Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
... of the Netherlands . In the middle of the sixteenth century the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, joined together by the dukes of Burgundy and their Habsburg heirs, had many of the same problems as other western European states: tensions between the pretensions of the sovereign and the ancient privileges of corporate bodies like the provincial states and the towns; among the high nobility who owed their position largely to birth and the new officials of the king; and between the growing financial needs of the monarchy—war was becoming increasingly...
Revolt of the Netherlands
23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries Reference library
Paul Hoftijzer
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...to fail from the start. Despite some successes in the economic and social sphere, the north and south had been separated too long to be able to form a coherent national community. The Belgian Revolt of 1830 and the ensuing independence of the southern Netherlands under the royal House of Saxe-Coburg meant that each of the two countries would go its own way. A long and difficult process of recovery began, in which more general social developments, such as the growth of the population, the centralization and democratization of government, the liberalization...
Visions of Kingdoms: From Pompey to the First Jewish Revolt Reference library
Amy-Jill Levine
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...of the Temple and its sacrifices within the documents of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism; the depiction of the Temple menorah on the Arch of Titus; the image of the Temple on the coins minted by Bar Kokhba in the Second Revolt, more than sixty years after the Temple's destruction; and the ongoing references to the Temple in Jewish liturgy. Yet permutations of this centrality emphasize as well the diversity of practice and belief among the people called “Jews.” Within the Temple, daily sacrifices were offered by the priests, both...
Transitions and Trajectories: Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire Reference library
Barbara Geller
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...According to the historian Dio Cassius, Hadrian's lapse was due to the great losses suffered by his troops. But the Roman army finally prevailed, defeating the rebels decisively at Bethar, southwest of Jerusalem. The revolt had many causes. Anti-Roman nationalistic unrest and militant messianic sentiments were key factors, as probably was the confiscation of Jewish land by the Roman government in the aftermath of the First Jewish Revolt. The latter contributed to the growing impoverishment of the Judean peasantry, many of whom may have...
Israel among the Nations: The Persian Period Reference library
Mary Joan Winn Leith
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...were part of a conscious imperial strategy for strengthening the empire's hold on Yehud, as Persia responded to threats resulting from the Egyptian revolt and Greek expansionism. But the books of Ezra and Nehemiah gloss over the possibility that the reformers were acting primarily in the interests of Judah's Persian overlords. Instead, the Bible tells us, the two leaders come to Judah full of concern for the moral and material well-being of the people and with the express purpose of forming an exclusive holy community. As representatives of the influential...
Netherlands revolt
Union of Utrecht
Celio Malespini
Spanish Netherlands
Count of Nassau Louis
Dutch Revolts
Council of Blood
Pacification of Ghent
Hendrik Van Brederode
Willem Baudart
Compromise of Breda
Famiano Strada
