THE POLITICAL RELIGIOUS REVOLTS IN PRE LIBERAL EUROPE THE QUESTION OF FLANDERS SEEN BY SPANISH AGENTS (original) (raw)
2021, en SAN MIGUEL, E., En la Europa liberal: El deber y la compasión, publicado por la FUE en 2021
Philip II’s reign over this extensive land would go down in history as a continuous string of conflicts and revolts. Such events would cause the differences between the monarch and various local authorities in the Seventeen Provinces. The Duke of Alba intervening as Governor of the Netherlands distinctly marked this period6. All these historical facts would constitute the Eighty Years’ War in a broader international framework of the European wars of religion.
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Pollmann, Judith, Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands 1520-1635 (Past and Present; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiv + 239 blz., ISBN 978 0 19 960991 8). Judith Pollmann (Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635) argues persuasively that Netherlandish Catholics were slow to oppose the spread of heresy because their clergy encouraged passivity rather than resistance. This behavior contrasts strikingly with the active resistance posed to the spread of Calvinism in France and challenges French historians to question the assumption that violence was a natural response to the fracturing of community brought about by religious schism. Explanations of popular religious violence must nevertheless also consider their respective political contexts and the extent to which people trusted their rulers to suppress the threat of heresy. Pollmann’s further argument that the stunning Catholic revival that occurred in the Southern Netherlands could only ...
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