Early Modern War Narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries

Raymond Fagel is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Leiden UniversityLeonor Álvarez Francés is a PhD Researcher at Leiden UniversityBeatriz Santiago Belmontea is a PhD Researcher at Leiden University

• Introduction: early modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries – Raymond Fagel1 ‘Do not reveal that I wrote this’: diplomatic correspondence, news and narratives in the early years of the civil war in the Low Countries – M. J. Rodriguez-Salgado2 The fabrication of Francisco de Valdés: episodic narratives in Spanish and Dutch chronicles on the siege of Leiden (1573–4) – Leonor Álvarez Francés3 The year of the Furies: military correspondence around the Sack of Antwerp (1576) – Beatriz Santiago Belmonte4 ‘Lode della nazione italiana’: Italian historians on the Spanish soldiers – Cees Reijner5 Narrating mutiny in the Army of Flanders: Cristóbal Rodríguez Alva’s La inquieta Flandes (1594) – Miguel Martínez6 Orange’s Spanish mulatto and other side-changers: narratives on Spanish defection during the Revolt in the Low Countries – Raymond Fagel7 How a defeat became a victory: the siege of Ostend in contemporary Dutch war coverage and post-war chronicles (1601–15) – Werner Thomas8 North and South: a comparison of episodic war narratives during the Revolt in the Low Countries – Jasper van der Steen9 Chaplains and soldiers: experience and narratives in the Low Countries (1567–1648) – Vincenzo Lavenia10 ‘Was bis daher gepassiert solt vergessen und vergeben sein’: cross-border nobleman Sweder Schele’s (1569–1639) accounts of army commanders during the Revolt in the Low Countries and Thirty Years’ War – Raingard Esser and Dániel Moerman11 Geoffrey Parker’s Universal Soldier revisited: European military history and human universals – Gregory HanlonIndex