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Alba: General and Servant to the Crown(3 Protagonists of History in International Perspective)

Alba: General and Servant to the Crown(3 Protagonists of History in International Perspective)


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Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, is one of the most formidable and controversial figures of the sixteenth century. He has been depicted as a great hero, an indefatigable defender of the Catholic faith and a true buttress of the Spanish monarchy, but also as a terrifying man, the dark suppressor of the revolt in the Low Countries. During his long and fascinating life Alba revealed wide-ranging skills and interests. A successful soldier, he was also a distinguished courtier and an influential diplomat serving his monarchs, Charles V and Philip II, without fail. Moreover, he was a maecenas and an avid art collector. Using a variety of sources, including previously unexamined data, sixteen leading historians from eight countries present newly developed insights and offer a nuanced image of the Grand Duque. Adopting different perspectives, they shed new light on this intriguing and influential leader, thus showing that Alba continues to be deserving of study and discussion. AUTHOR: Maurits Ebben studied history at Leiden University and l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. After researching and lecturing in Colombia (South America) and Mexico he has been engaged since 1992 as lecturer at the Institute for History of Leiden University. His dissertation concerns a study of the financing of the Spanish effort by Portuguese bankers during the Eighty Years War (1568-1648) with the Dutch: Zilver, brood en kogels voor de koning.Kredietverlening door Portugese bankiers aan de Spaanse kroon, 1621-1665 (Leiden 1996). Maurits Ebben teaches Dutch early modern history and is interested in the external relations of the Dutch Republic, particularly with the Iberian world. 124 illustrations

Table of Contents:
*Alba: Statesman and Diplomat (Dr. Henry Kamen, The United Kingdom)*Alba Cunctator? (Dr. Rene Quatrefages, France)*The Duke of Alba in the Court of Charles V and Philip II (Prof. Jose Martinez Millan, Spain)*The Duke of Alba: Governor of the Netherlands in Times of War (Dr. Gustaaf Janssens, Belgium)*Alba and Religion (Prof. Werner Thomas, Belgium)*The Manifestation of His Magnificence: The Third Duke of Alba and the Arts (Prof. Rosemarie Mulcahy, Ireland)*The Third Duke of Alba: Collector and Patron of the Arts (Dr. Almudena Perez de Tudela, Spain)*Government and Administration of the House of Alba in the Sixteenth Century (Prof. Jose Manuel Calderon Ortega, Spain)*The Duke of Alba in the Holy Roman Empire (Prof. Friedrich Edelmayer, Austria)*Il Capo dei Capi: The Duke of Alba in Italy (Prof. M.J. Rodriguez-Salgado, The United Kingdom)*The Duke of Alba and the Low Countries, 1520-73 (Dr. Raymond Fagel, the Netherlands)*Alba in Portugal: Conquest and Government, 1580-82 (Dr. Rafael Valladares, Spain)*Alba's Reputation in the Early Modern Low Countries (Prof. Judith Pollmann, the Netherlands and Dr. Monica Stensland, Norway)*Salamander of War, Venerable Old Nobleman: The Literary Construction of the Duke of Alba in the Spanish Golden Age (Dr. Yolanda Rodriguez Perez, the Netherlands)*Alba's First Biographer: Juan Antonio de Vera y Figueroa, Count of La Roca, 1583-1658 (Dr. Maurits Ebben, the Netherlands)

About the Author :
Maurits Ebben (1955) studied history at Leiden University and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. In his doctoral dissertation he explored the financing of the Spanish effort by Portugese bankers during the Eighty Years' War. Sinc 1992 he has been a lecturer at the Institute for History of Leiden University, where he teaches Dutch early modern history. Margriet Lacy-Bruijn (1943) is a native of the Netherlands but has spent most of her adult life in the United States. After studying at the Sorbonne and the University of Strasbourg and after earning degrees in French literature and lingustics at the University of Amsterdam, she completed her PhD in French literature at the university of Kansas in 1972. In addition to her work on the 18th-century French novel, she has published widely on Belle van Zuylen/Madame de Charrière. She was professor of French, dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and associate vice president for instruction at North Dakota State University before holding similar positions at Butler University, where she retired in 2004. Rolof earned a LLM degree and a MA degree from the University of Leiden. He also received a degree in comparative law (MCL) from Columbia University. He has spent the last forty years practicing law in The Netherlands Antilles, Rotterdam and Jakarta. Driven by his life-long passion for history, he founded Karwansaray Publishers in 2007, a company dedicated to promoting and sharing a multi-faceted view of history that corsses cultural and political boundries.

Review :
"The ultimate repository of all things Alba."-- "Historisch Nieuwsblad" (10/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789490258085
  • Publisher: Karwansaray BV
  • Publisher Imprint: Karwansaray BV
  • Height: 285 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Series Title: 3 Protagonists of History in International Perspective
  • Width: 215 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9490258083
  • Publisher Date: 28 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: General and Servant to the Crown


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