Lille and the Dutch Revolt: Urban Stability in an Era of Revolution, 1500-1582
Robert S. DuPlessis, Olwen Hufton (Editor), John ElliottBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
In the literature on the Dutch revolt—indeed, in the scholarship on revolution as a whole—the experience of the leading textile and trading center of Lille stands out as singular. Although affected by powerful economic, political, and religious currents that provoked rebellion in many other cities, it was renowned for adhering to the existing order. In this comprehensive study, Robert S. DuPlessis draws on a wide range of primary sources to illuminate the processes of selective adaptation that by the 1560s had endowed Lille with a structural tendency to stability.