War, State, and Society

Gunn, Steven; Grummitt, David; Cools, Hans

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“…This happened several times in Flanders, Walloon Flanders, and Hainaut in the 1480s, 1520s, and 1540s. 74 Late in 1551, fearing a concerted effort between the French king and his German allies, the situation seemed particularly threatening, and so the government ordered musters in (parts of) Guelders, Friesland, Holland, and Flanders for the 'defence' of the Netherlands. 75 These took part in the early months of 1552.…”

Section: Rural Self-defencementioning

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

Swart¹

2020

Early Modern Low Countries

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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.

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Section: Rural Self-defencementioning

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

Swart¹

2020

Early Modern Low Countries

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“…The English central government undertook efforts to fortify border towns, albeit on a limited scale in comparison with its continental counterparts. 32 France developed a central institution for fortifications from the late fifteenth century onwards. Although the newly installed 'controlleurs des fortifications' usually collaborated harmoniously with most towns, some provinces -including Burgundy and Languedoc -did not accept interference from Paris in their urban defence systems.…”

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War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg (c. 1570–c. 1660)

Vermeesch

2009

Urban History

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This article examines three important aspects of how the Dutch Republic organized warfare during the Dutch Revolt. The regulations for the billeting of soldiers, the building of fortifications and the collection of direct taxes are analysed in two garrison towns, namely, Gorinchem and Doesburg. The billeting of soldiers and the collection of taxes usually caused troubles in neighbouring countries. In comparison to more centralized neighbouring countries, the Dutch polity's decentralized nature, in which cities held positions of strong power, entailed better arrangements for billeting and higher tax compliance. Yet this decentralized nature did not hamper the emergence of central administrative bodies for co-ordinating and organizing the building of fortifications. The Dutch account of organizing warfare challenges existing views about the role of cities in state building within a context of protracted warfare.

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“…Local tribunals might assert themselves against central power by trying miscreant soldiers for their offences against the civilian population. 78 Such interactions can be profitably studied from archival records and reflected upon with wider questions in mind about the impact of war on government and society. Indeed they must be, if historians are to make progress in setting the impact of war in its proper contexts.…”

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War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Widening the Debate

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Grummitt²,

Cools³

2008

War in History

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While the debate on the role of war in state development in early modern Europe has ranged widely, the participants have not answered its most fundamental question to the satisfaction of most historians. The difficulty has been how to assess whether war was more important than other factors as a driver of state formation. In practice it is more fruitful to study the role of war within a multi-causal model, but to do this the interaction between war and other factors such as judicial, religious, ideological, and social change must be studied, preferably in detail but in comparative context. A t first sight it might be thought that the debate on the role of war in state development in early modern Europe is quite wide enough already. It crosses the disciplinary boundaries between history, sociology, and political science. It subsumes the ever more ramified debate on the 'military revolution' thesis first propounded by Michael Roberts in 1955 and elaborated by Geoffrey Parker in 1988. 1 It has spread its influence geographically: from at least Parker's intervention it has been tied to the origins of European global dominance, and recently attention has been focused on what eastern European developments can tell us that western European cannot, and on why China did not have the same sort of state-building military revolution as Europe. 2 Discussion has drawn in the fourteenth century as the proposed site for an infantry revolution, the fifteenth century as the scene of a gunpowder revolution, the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as the locus for a more convincing all-round military revolution than Roberts's, and the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the 1 M.

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War, State, and Society

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

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

War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg (c. 1570–c. 1660)

War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Widening the Debate

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