Bibliography:
Extracts of further readings are also available online, due to license
reasons for members of UCL only (login and password required).I. Biographies (in English):
Brandi, Karl, The Emperor Charles V. The Growth and Destiny of a Man and of a World-Empire, translated by C. V. Wedgwood (London, 1939)
Maltby, William S., Alba: A Biography of Fernandez Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, 1507-1582 (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1983) [>>PDF]
##Parker, Geoffrey, Philip II (London, 1978) [>>PDF]
Rady, Martyn C., The Emperor Charles V (London, 1988) [>>PDF]
Rodriguez-Salgado, M.J., The Changing Face of Empire: Charles V, Philip II and Habsburg Authority, 1551-1559 (Cambridge, 1988) [>>PDF]
##Swart, K.W., William the Silent and the Revolt of the Netherlands (London, 1978)
##Wedgwood, C.V., William the Silent. William of Nassau, Prince of Orange 1533-1584 (London, 1944; reprint 1989)
II. The Revolt in fiction, narrative histories, film and art: a few examples:
Alberdingk Thijm, Jos A., Karolingsche verhalen in nieuwer form overgebracht door Jos A. Alberdingk Thijm: Carel en Elegast, De vier Heemskinderen, Willem van Oranje, Floris en Blancefloer (Amsterdam, 1851)
Boon, Louis Paul, Het geuzenboek (Amsterdam, 1979). For more on Boon, click >>here.
Coster, Charles De, La légende et les aventures héroiques, joyeuses et glorieuses d’Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres at ailleurs (Brussels, 1867-68), translated into English under the title The Legend of the Glorious Adventure of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere by G. Whitworth (London, 1918). For more on the legend of Uilenspiegel, click >here.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Egmont. Ein Trauerspiel (1782), translated into English by H.M. Waidson (Oxford, 1960) [>>PDF]
Hooft, P.C., Neederlandsche Histoorien, sedert de ooverdraght der heerschappye van kaizar Karel den Vyfden, op kooning Philips zynen zoon (Amsterdam, 1642). For more on P.C. Hooft, click >>here.
La Kermesse héroique (Carnival in Flanders), a film by Jacques Feyder (France, 1935). For the plot summary, click >here.
L’Oeuvre au noir (The Abyss), a film by André Delvaux (France/Belgium, 1988). For the plot summary, click >here.
##Motley, John .L., The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History, 3 vols. (London, 1856)
##Murray, John Joseph, Antwerp in the Age of Plantin and Brueghel (Newton Abbot, 1972)
Schiller, Friedrich von, Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung (1783), translated into English under the title The History of the Defection of the United Netherlands from the Spanish Empire by E.B. Eastwick (Frankfort on the Main, 1844)
III. Websites:
For more original documents check out the following websites:
@http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl
A website devoted to the Revolt of the Netherlands, including original documents (in Dutch, French and English) and translations into English.
@http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/Resources
The University of London’s massive website contains links to just about any level of academic research in the UK. The first port of call for any scholar.
@http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
The Internet Public Library, Online Texts Collection, includes primary and secondary literature on, for instance, Erasmus.
@http://library.byu.edu/%7Erdh/eurodocs/belgium.html
A website containing primary historical documents from or relating to the southern Netherlands, present-day Belgium, including letters of Philip II from 1592-97, in Spanish, with summaries in English.
@http://geneaknowhow.net/regel/nederlanden.htm
A significant resource devoted to historical legal sources from the Low Countries (1292 to the present); Flemish/Dutch transcriptions and facsimiles. The site also contains maps.