Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments : The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Hardcover)

Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Maps; 1. Prologue; 2. The beginnings of the States General; 3. The first crisis (1477?94); 4. The Netherlands becomes part of a composite monarchy (1506?31): Philip the Handsome (1494?1506); 5. Dominium politicum et regale in a composite monarchy: the regencies of Margaret of Austria (1507?30); 6. Dominium politicum et regale in a composite monarchy: the regency of Mary of Hungary, I (1531?50); 7. The Netherlands at the centre of the Habsburg composite monarchy: the regency of Mary of Hungary, II (1550?5); 8. The Netherlands at the centre of the Habsburg composite monarchy: the governor-generalship of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy (1555?9); 9. Rule from Madrid: the regency of Margaret of Parma (1559?67); 10. The governor-generalships of the duke of Alba (1567?73) and of Don Luis de Requesens (1573?6); 11. The beginnings of parliamentary government: Holland and Zeeland (1572?6); 12. Rule by the States General: myths and realities (1576?81); 13. Parliamentary government and dominium regale (1580?1600); 14. Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.