Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland ： with a view of the

Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 4.1
Word count
109K words
Chapters
11

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English Originals World History Historical ReappraisalJudicial FairnessPolitical AllegoryPolitical CareerPower GameAntiheroComplex HumanityReligious ConflictEarly Modern Europe

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of theAuthor: Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877,Language: English, Class: DH: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Release Date: Jan 1, 2004

Editor's review

This entry is another electronic-text record of the same work in this batch: Motley's biography of John of Barneveld, released free by Project Gutenberg. Its value lies in its detailed source-based narrative of early Dutch republican politics, showing a statesman's choices and downfall under religious division and external pressure, with the grandeur and drama characteristic of nineteenth-century historiography. For Chinese readers its main use is as extended reading on early modern European political history and religious toleration, to be compared with modern scholarship in order to observe changes in historical method. Because the original is a long English work published early, reading requires some patience.

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About the author

Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877 Author

John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) was an American historian and diplomat, known for his historical works on Dutch independence and the Dutch Revolt. His major work, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, narrates in detail how the Dutch provinces threw off Spanish rule and established a republican government, combining rigorous scholarship with a strong narrative drive. His History of the United Netherlands continues the account of political and military developments from the death of William the Silent to the end of the sixteenth century. The collection here contains 103 of his works, mostly different volumes and editions of these general histories. Public information is limited, so biographical details are omitted; his works show a respect for primary sources and a talent for portraying major historical turning points, and they have had a lasting influence on the study of Dutch history in the English-speaking world.