This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and
political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the
revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the
nobility played a significant role, but in the seventeenth century
it appears to have been obliterated by bourgeois merchants and
urban regents. The author argues that this 'decline' needs
re-examination and bases his study on three key aspects: the
demographic evidence for the decline of the nobility; the economic
vicissitudes of the sixteenth century, which gave rise to the myth
of its impoverishment; and finally the political and administrative
powers of the nobility in the reigns of Charles V and Phillip II
during the Dutch Revolt in the Republic. The conclusions are
surprising. The nobility of Holland was extremely successful in
maintaining its position in a bourgeois republic. In conjunction
with the urban regents, the nobles formed the country's
administrative, political and economic elite and from a social
point of view, they maintained a strict apartheid by marrying
exclusively within their group. Widely acclaimed in the Dutch
edition of 1984, this is an important contribution to the history
of the Netherlands as well as to the more general study of European
elites.
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