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The Military Orders and the Reformation
choices, State building, and the Weight of Tradition
2017 || Paperback || K. Militzer e.a. || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
For the Military Orders the age of the Reformation was a period of severe crisis in which their very existence was challenged by protestant princes and reformers. Especially in the northern part of Europe the Hospitallers and the Teutonic Order faced serious losses. Religious convictions played an important role, but events were also influenced by processes of state building and the personal ambitions of the orders' leaders on all levels. These and other themes are treated in thirteen contrib...
Your Humble Servant
agents in Early Modern Europe
2017 || Hardcover || Herman Cools e.a. || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
In early modern Europe, agents were everywhere. They engaged in the transmission of political news, were employed on diplomatic missions and negotiated economic, cultural and intellectual dealings between patrons and clients. The agents' extensive networks, established in order to succeed professionally on one level, often provided them with an ideal resource for the execution of additional offices. This book presents agents from different professional groups - artists, soldiers, clergymen, d...
Sovereignty as Inviolability
vondel's Theatrical Explorations in the Dutch Republic
2017 || Paperback || Frans-Willem Korsten || Verloren b.v., uitgeverij
Sovereignty is a key issue in the baroque, and especially in the Dutch Republic with its incredibly complicated political organisation. Consequently, in and through Joost van den Vondel's theatre plays, sovereignty was explored. Vondel sensed a fundamental problem in the construction of Europes politico-cultural 'house'. The questions he asked with respect to that construction concerned the relation between theology and politics, also in terms of gender and culture. Since these questions co...