Brill is publishing a new edited
collection on early modern sovereignties.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The essays in this volume explore
the theories and practices of sovereignty in the context of state-building in
the early modern Northern and Southern Low Countries. The Dutch Revolt, the
secession of the northern provinces from the Spanish empire, the formation of
the Dutch Republic and the reconstitution of Habsburg authority in the south,
fostered tense debates among scholars and political leaders about the
legitimacy, organisation and processes of law and governance. This made the Low
Countries a prime battlefield for theoretical and political contestations about
the nature of public authority and the relations between different layers of
government in early-modern Europe. The book approaches this historical debate
from three angles: (1) political theoretical, (2) legal, and (3)
politico-historical.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Erik De Bom, Ph.D. (2009),
KU Leuven, is Research Fellow at that university. He has published on the
history of political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, early-modern
intellectual history and Renaissance humanism.
Randall Lesaffer is Professor of legal history at KU Leuven as well
as Tilburg University. His research focuses on the historical development of
the law of nations in Europa since the sixteenth century. He is general editor
of Oxford Historical Treaties and The Cambridge History of International
Law.
Werner Thomas is professor of Spanish and Spanish American History
at KU Leuven. He publishes on the Low Countries and the Spanish monarchy, the
repression of Protestantism in Spain, and the government of Archdukes Albert
and Isabella in the Southern Netherlands.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Werner Thomas
PART 1
The Construction of Sovereignty
1 Sovereignty in Grotius
Hans Blom
2 Ideas on Sovereignty
Soto, Vázquez and Grotius
Gustaaf van Nifterik
3 Conform to the Government and
Acknowledge the Sovereignty
Simon Stevin and François
Vranck, a Practical Approach to Contested Sovereignty
Lies van Aelst
PART 2
The Use and Limits of Sovereignty
4 Sovereignty as Argument
The Habsburg-Dutch Struggle for
Territory before and after Westphalia, 1576–1664
Bram De Ridder
5 Sovereignty and Early Modern
Private Property Rights
Shavana Musa
6 The ‘Perfect Principality’ of
the Archdukes Albert and Isabella
Project and Reality of a
‘Separate Sovereignty’ of the Spanish Crown, 1529–1621
Alicia Esteban Estríngana
PART 3
Sovereigns and Sovereignty in
Practice
7 ‘The King is the Real Sovereign
of this Countries’
Politics of Justice and Order
from the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands, 1567–1571
Gustaaf Janssens
8 Electing a Prince
the Popular Transfer of
Sovereignty at the End of the Sixteenth Century
José Javier Ruiz Ibáñez
9 North-Netherlandish Sovereigns
at Work in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
Simon Groenveld
10 Early Seventeenth-Century
Representative Institutions and Law Making in the Habsburg Netherlands
René Vermeir
Index
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