1571).Ĭontemporary evidence attributing the pamphlet to Petrus Dathenus is rejected by J. Bor, Oorsprongk, begin en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen (4 vols., Amsterdam, 1679–84), I, 316–18.I have used the E.T., A Defence and true declaration of the things lately done in the lowe countrey (s.l. Remarkably enough, this important tract seems never to have been translated into Dutch the translation only of its introductory section is found in P. the pamphlets cited below, notes 19 and 20.Īpologeticum et vera rerum in Belgicogermania nuper gestarum narratio (s.1. He is thus the main villain in William of Orange’s Justification (1568) cf. Granvelle continued to be the bête noire of the political literature of the Revolt long afttr his departure from the Netherlands. Geurts, De Nederlandse opstand in de pamfletten 1566–1584 (Nijmegen, 1956), pp. Rogier, Geschiedenis van het Katholicisme in Noord-Nederland in de 16e en 17e eeuw (2 vols., Amsterdam, 1945–7), I, 189–90 P. Maltby, The Black Legend in England, 1558–1660 (Durham, N. The impact of Dutch anti-Spanish publications on England is stressed in the suggestive but not very scholarly study by W. When, in 1579, some effective anti-Orangist pamphlets were published, d’Assonville reported to Granvelle that at last Orange was being repaid in kind: E. Gachard (ed.), Correspondance de Philippe II sur les affaires des Pays-Bas (5 vols., Brussels, 1848–79), II, 347. This study also shows that the idealized image of Spain as a country of chivalry and material abundance, current in the Netherlands before the Revolt, lingered on during the Eighty Years War.
Vosters, Spanje in de Nederlandse litteratuur (Amsterdam, 1950), pp. On the other hand, Arnoldsson unduly minimizes the influence of French hispanophobia in the Netherlands, being for example unaware that William of Orange’s Apologie was written by the Huguenot Pierre Loyseleur de Villiers.Ĭf.
Actually in matters of hispanophobia, the Netherlands influenced Germany rather than vice versa. According to Arnoldsson, German Protestant influence was responsible for those features of the Black Legend in the Netherlands in which it differed from the Italian prototype.
In this and some other passages the word ‘Dutch’ should be understood as referring to the population of the southern as well as the northern provinces of the Low Countries. Albèri (ed.), Relazioni degli ambasciatori venetial Senato (Florence, 1846), 2nd ser, III, 389. Estudios sobre sus origines (Göteborg, 1960), esp. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The rebel image of tyrannical Spain, through utter distortion of reality, was little more than a myth. The policies pursued by Philip II and his two successors undoubtedly possessed many tyrannical features which may be regarded as fully justifying the Revolt of the Netherlands, but publicists denouncing Spanish tyranny grossly exaggerated Spanish misdeeds and entirely ignored the tangible benefits which the Low Countries derived from their personal union with Spain. A continuous stream of pamphlets poured from the printing presses in the Low Countries imputing the most diabolical designs to the Spanish government and glossing over the fact that many of Spain’s evil practices were not peculiar to that country but endemic in all European states of the period. During the Eighty Years War Spain was the target of a highly intensive propaganda campaign.
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