Fencing the Garden of Holland: City power and peasants’ sorrow in the Dutch Revolt (Erasmus Lecture Series Part I)

Date: 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Erasmus Poster Part I

Speaker: Pepijn Brandon

The Dutch Revolt is still seen primarily as an urban affair. Its result was the establishment of a republican state dominated by urban merchants who from the security of “Holland’s Garden” managed to branch out into the seventeenth-century world. Recent historiography, however, has convincingly shown that especially the peasantry paid a high price for Dutch success in its War of Independence. The central argument of this lecture is that Dutch peasants not simply suffered the customary consequences of early-modern warfare, but also a ruthlessly efficient, city led campaign for the capitalist transformation of the countryside.

Part II of the lecture series will be held on March 4, 12pm to 1pm. Part III will be held on April 29, 12pm to 1pm.

 

 

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