Free Download J. C. Grayson, "Treason in the Northern Quarter: War, Terror, and the Rule of Law in the Dutch Revolt"
English | 2009 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 0691135649, 0691178046 | PDF | 1,2 mb
In the spring of 1575, Holland’s Northern Quarter-the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea-was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and named their principals-a witch-hunt that eventually led to a young Catholic lawyer named Jan Jeroenszoon.
