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Title The Twelve Years' Truce (1609) : peace, truce, war, and law in the Low Countries at the turn of the 17th century / edited by Randall Lesaffer.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 297 pages :) : illustration, map.
text file
Series Legal history library, 1874-1793 ; volume 13
Studies in the history of international law ; volume 6
Legal history library ; v. 13.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of international law ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The Twelve Years' Truce : textual explanations / Paul Brood -- 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 -- 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 -- The Anglo-Spanish Peace Treaty of 1604 : a rehearsal for Belgian diplomats? / Alain Wijffels -- Left 'holding the bag' : the Johor-voc alliance and the twelve years truce (1606-1613) / Peter Borschberg -- The tactical military revolution and Dutch Army operations during the era of the Twelve Years Truce (1592-1618) / Olaf van Nimwegen -- 'Une oppression insupportable au peuple' : the impact of contributions on armistice, peace and truce negotations / Tim Piceu -- The United Provinces : 'free' or 'free and sovereign'? / Beatrix C.M. Jacobs -- How 'sovereign' were the Southern Netherlands under The Archdukes? / Georges Martyn -- 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 -- From Antwerp to Munster (1609/1648) : truce and peace under the law of nations / Randall Lesaffer, Erik-Jan Broers and Johanna Waelkens -- 'La dernière ancre de leur finesse' : truce and peace treaties as criteria for bellum justum in early modern Europe / Bernd Klesmann -- The Treaty of London, the Twelve Years Truce, and religious toleration in Spain and the Netherlands (1598-1621) / Werner Thomas.
Summary The Twelve Years Truce covers the legal history of a crucial text in the formation of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power and highlights its significance in the formation of the early modern laws of war and peace.
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Subject Treaty of Antwerp (1609 April 9)
Treaty of Antwerp (1609 April 9)
Treaty of Münster (1648 January 30)
Treaty of Münster (1648 January 30)
Spain (1609 Apr. 9)
Spain (1648 January 30)
Netherlands -- History -- Twelve Years' Truce, 1609-1621.
Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
Law -- Benelux countries -- History.
Law.
Benelux countries.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Added Author Lesaffer, Randall, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Twelve Years' Truce (1609). 9789004274914 900427491X (DLC) 2014014503
ISBN 9004274928 (electronic book)
9789004274921 (electronic book)
9789004274914 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
900427491X (hardback ; alkaline paper)