Twelve Years Truce (1609)

Randall Lesaffer (°Bruges, 1968) is professor of legal history at Tilburg Law School and professor of international and European legal history at the University of Leuven. He has widely published on the history of international law from 1500 to the present. He is also the author of European Legal History. A cultural and political perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2009).Contributors include leading specialists from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy as well as Singapore on the diplomatic and legal history of the Low Countries of the 16th and 17th centuries: Peter Borschberg, Erik-Jan Broers, Paul Brood, Bram De Ridder, Alicia Esteban Estríngana, Carlo Focarelli, Beatrix C.M. Jacobs, Bernd Klesmann, Georges Martyn, Tim Piceu, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Olaf van Nimwegen, Johanna Waelkens and Alain Wijffels.

• Note on Contributors ... viiIntroduction ... 1Randall LesafferPart 1 Truce and Peace1 The Twelve Years Truce ... 7Paul Brood2 Preparing the Ground ... 15Alicia Esteban Estríngana3 The Act of Cession, the 1598 and 1600 States General in Brussels and the Peace Negotiations during the Dutch Revolt ... 48Bram de Ridder Violet Soen4 The Anglo-Spanish Peace Treaty of 1604 ... 69Alain WijffelsPart 2 Truce and War5 Left ‘Holding the Bag’ ... 89Peter Borschberg6 The Tactical Military Revolution and Dutch Army Operations during the Era of the Twelve Years Truce (1592–1618) ... 121Olaf van Nimwegen7 ‘Une oppression insupportable au peuple’ ... 152Tim PiceuPart 3 Truce and Law8 The United Provinces ... 181Beatrix C.M. Jacobs9 How ‘Sovereign’ were the Southern Netherlands under the Archdukes? ... 196Georges Martyn10 The Early Doctrine of International Law as a Bridge from Antiquity to Modernity and Diplomatic Inviolability in 16th- and 17th-Century European Practice ... 210Carlo Focarelli11 From Antwerp to Munster (1609/1648) ... 233Randall Lesaffer, Erik-Jan Broers and Johanna Waelkens12 ‘La dernière ancre de leur finesse’ ... 256Bernd Klesmann13 The Treaty of London, the Twelve Years Truce and Religious Toleration in Spain and the Netherlands (1598–1621) ... 277Werner Thomas