BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Fencing the Garden of Holland: City power and peasants’ sorrow in the Dutch Revolt (Erasmus Lecture Series Part I) PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1489185_0 SUMMARY:Fencing the Garden of Holland: City power and peasants’ sorrow in the Dutch Revolt (Erasmus Lecture Series Part I) DESCRIPTION:

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.

LOCATION:History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, 35 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20200304T170000Z DTEND:20200304T180000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR