Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots. The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt

Abstract

96 Book Reviews / Journal of Early Modern History 13 (2009) 71-98 Arnade, Peter, Beggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots. Th e Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt (Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2008), 368 pp. incl. 43 halftones, ISBN 9 780 80144 681 8 (cloth), $69.95; ISBN 9 780 80147 496 5 (paper), $26.95. Th is is a substantial and engaging contribution to the already vast scholar- ship that exists on the civil war in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, commonly known as the Dutch Revolt. Rather than off ering a new account of the confl ict or an analysis of