The Twelve Years' Truce (1609)
Subtitle: peace, truce, war, and law in the low countries at the turn of the 17th century
By: edited by Randall Lesaffer
Series: Legal history library -- volume 13
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789004274914; 9789004274921
Subjects: History; Law; Treaty of Antwerp; Treaty of Münster
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Twelve Years' Truce : textual explanations / Paul Brood; title: Preparing the ground : the cession of the Netherland's sovereignty in 1598 and the failure of its peace-making objective, 1607-1609 / Alicia Esteban Estringana; title: The act of cession, the 1598 and 1600 states general in Brussels and  the peace negotiations during the Dutch Revolt / Bram De Ridder and Violet Soen; title: The Anglo-Spanish Peace Treaty of 1604 : a rehearsal for Belgian diplomats? / Alain Wijffels; title: Left 'holding the bag' : the Johor-voc alliance and the twelve years truce (1606-1613) / Peter Borschberg; title: The tactical military revolution and Dutch Army operations during the era of the Twelve Years Truce (1592-1618) / Olaf van Nimwegen; title: 'Une oppression insupportable au peuple' : the impact of contributions on armistice, peace and truce negotations / Tim Piceu; title: The United Provinces : 'free' or 'free and sovereign'? / Beatrix C.M. Jacobs; title: How 'sovereign' were the Southern Netherlands under The Archdukes? / Georges Martyn; title: The early doctrine of international law as a bridge from antiquity to modernity and diplomatic inviolability in 16th- and 17th-century European practice / Carlo Focarelli; title: From Antwerp to Munster (1609/1648) : truce and peace under the law of nations / Randall Lesaffer, Erik-Jan Broers and Johanna Waelkens; title: 'La dernière ancre de leur finesse' : truce and peace treaties as criteria for bellum justum in early modern Europe / Bernd Klesmann; title: The Treaty of London, the Twelve Years Truce, and religious toleration in Spain and the Netherlands (1598-1621) / Werner Thomas.