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This article examines the policies that state and urban authorities within the Habsburg Netherlands adopted towards emigration during the Dutch Revolt. The Spanish Crown's repression after the Iconoclastic Fury in 1566–7 intensified the exodus during the first decade of the Revolt, as local or exceptional courts often sanctioned these retreats through judicial banishment and confiscation of property. Beginning in 1579–81, however, there was a change in policy towards refugees, as local authorities in Habsburg territories abandoned their initial attempts at repression in favour of reconciliation and reintegration. While the new governor-general and city magistrates in reconciled cities encouraged Protestants to leave, they also welcomed those seeking to permanently return, albeit if they both pledged loyalty to the Spanish Crown and reconciled with the Catholic Church. This policy, as shown in pardon letters, petitions, and inquiries concerning returnees, met with some success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the often dire financial situations of early modern newspaper publishers in the Low Countries. It specifically analyses and contextualizes the business plan of the Gazette van Antwerpen around 1773, using a budget for a typical year that was incorporated in an essay written by the newspaper’s editor of the time, Jacob Van der Sanden. The article draws on the data given in this unknown source to compare the financial situation of the Gazette van Antwerpen with newspapers that were published in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, it compares Van der Sanden's budget with those of two newspapers published in Haarlem and Amsterdam in the same period.

During the seventeenth century there was a growing appropriation of the arts in support of the state: the state increasingly defined itself as a supra-individual, capable of strengthening identity and national ties. By focusing on several examples from the field of painting, we intend to show how in the Baroque period – unlike the Renaissance – this reason of state became one of the aims of art in the service of all governmental power: regardless of political orientations – absolutist and republican – the nation-state of the modern era used the arts to increase social cohesion in the military, religious and scientific fields. By analysing one of the scenes from Peter Paul Rubens’s Medici Cycle (1662–1625) and the Vow of Louis XIII by Philippe de Champaigne (1637), as well as landscapes, still lifes and Dutch scenes by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Jacob van Ruisdael, Gerrit Berckheyde and Jan Vermeer the deliberate contribution of Baroque painting to the consolidation of a sense of national unity is underlined. This mobilization of early nationalism in the modern period was largely carried out by imagination and fiction, as Benedict Anderson rightly pointed out, and painting proved to be an effective political instrument based on persuasion.

This article explores the often dire financial situations of early modern newspaper publishers in the Low Countries. It specifically analyses and contextualizes the business plan of the Gazette van Antwerpen around 1773, using a budget for a typical year that was incorporated in an essay written by the newspaper's editor of the time, Jacob Van der Sanden. The article draws on the data given in this unknown source to compare the financial situation of the Gazette van Antwerpen with newspapers that were published in the Southern Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, it compares Van der Sanden's budget with those of two newspapers published in Haarlem and Amsterdam in the same period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a firmly held belief that, from 1555 until 1700, the successive Habsburg sovereigns of the so-called Spanish Netherlands usurped the authority of the territory and maintained their power only by means of an army of occupation. Although recent research has thoroughly revised this antiquated analysis, it continues to live on until the present day. This article illustrates how stereotypes of Spanish usurpation were established at the beginning of the nineteenth century, both in the scholarly and popular literature, and demonstrates that, in the Spanish Netherlands, there was no 'absolutism' or 'occupation' on the part of the Habsburg authorities. On the contrary, after the separation from the rebellious provinces and the creation of the Dutch Republic, the Southern Netherlands were able to benefit from relative autonomy, at least when it came to domestic issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the selection criteria for high-ranking civil servants in the Netherlands during the transition between Spanish and Austrian rule in the early 18th century. The article describes the governmental implications of the Wars of Spanish Succession on Dutch civil servants, the financing of governmental offices, and the role of collateral councils in determining the roles and responsibilities of civil servants. Other subjects under discussion include the process of recruiting officials to administer the government, the Dutch elector Maximilien-Emmanuel de Bavière, and the centralization of government under Spanish prince Philip V.