An excellent short history of the critical Eighty Years' War which led to the Netherlands independence from Spanish rule. This is the perfect work for anyone seeking to understand the balance of power of modern Europe and how it came to be. Illustrated to enhance the reading experience. this eBook is formatted for Kindle devices and the Kindle for iOS apps.
Contents include:
THE BURGUNDIAN NETHERLANDS
HABSBURG RULE IN THE NETHERLANDS
THE PRELUDE TO THE REVOLT
THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS
WILLIAM THE SILENT
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT
THE TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE
MAURICE AND OLDENBARNEVELDT
FROM THE END OF THE TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE TO THE PEACE OF MUENSTER (1621-48). THE STADHOLDERATE OF FREDERICK HENRY OF ORANGE
George Edmundson was an Anglican clerical scholar. Edmundson graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1870, was ordained in 1872; and served as vicar of Northolt, Middlesex.
His work, The Church of Rome in the First Century: the Bampton Lectures for 1913 was published in 1913. The late J. A. T. Robinson praised the book and remarked in his Redating the New Testament (1977) that the book was largely ignored when it was published, perhaps because the author was not a professional New Testament scholar and his conclusions differed from almost all the "assured results" of the "higher criticism" of the day.
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