‘Heerloese knechten’: Unemployed Soldiers as a Security Threat in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands

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He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen within the dfg Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 'Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitization from a Historical Perspective'. His main interest is in the history of the sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Netherlands from a comparative and international perspective. Among his recent publications is 'Defeat, honour and the news. The case of Breda (1625) and the Dutch Republic', European History Quarterly 46 (2016) 6-26.