荷兰起义
2003-7
中国政法大学出版社
吉尔德仁
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This volume presents five texts which were published in the LowCountries between 1570 and 159o, during the crucial decades of whatis nowadays labelled, with understatement, the 'Dutch Revolt'. From1555 a series of revolutionary events led to the abjuration of Philip II bythe States General of the Dutch provinces in 1581 and to thesubsequent foundation of the 'Dutch Republic of the Seven UnitedProvinces', one of the great powers of the seventeenth century. Despite the general recognition that the rise of the DutCh Republicwas of major political, cultural and economic importance for the courseof European history, historians have tended to neglect the politicalthought of the Dutch Revolt. However, as more than 2,ooo publica-tions (published between 1555 and i59o) exemplify, the politicaldebate of the Revolt was not only immense, but also comprehensiveand, above all, passionate. The purpose of this volume is to make someof the most important texts of the Revolt available in a modem edition. The first major issue which the protagonists of the Revolt had toconfront was how to justify first the protest and resistance against thegovernment of Philip II and eventually his abjuration by the StatesGeneral. Closely related to the reflections on the limits of politicalobedience and the justice of political resistance was a fundamentaldebate on the true and desirable character of the Dutch political order.This quest for 'the best state of the commonwealth' and for goodgovernment focused on the problem of sovereignty, on the relationshipbetween political and ecclesiastical authority and on the question ofreligious toleration.
囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。
编者：(比)吉尔德仁 合著者：李传敢
PrefaceIntroductionChronologyBiographical notesNote on the textsA Defence and True Declaration(1570)Address and Opening (1576)Brief Discourse(1579)Political Exposition(1582)Short Exposition(1587)Index
If a beautiful and convenient opportunity to help the fatherland in itsgreatest distress and to return it, from its impending spoilation anddestruction, to its flourishing prosperity has never before presenteditself, then it is offered to you now by the exceptional mercy andfavour of the Lord. It thus appears as though God, the Lord, movedto pity by the wretched misery of the people, is now admonishing you,and offering you his help to bring this affair to a good and blessedend. For it is certain and obvious that unless this Dutch war is rapidlyterminated by a good peace and a common treaty, we can expect firstgruesome bloodshed and harmful disruption, and then the totalspoilation and demise of our dear fatherland, together with the sadyoke of foreign nations, which, due to our discord, will imprison usand our offspring eternally. We shall become booty and loot for all ourneighbours, without meanwhile making any progress in that which we intend to do. For just as the disruption and discord, which has arisen amongst the inhabitants of the eountry by means and violence of the strangers, has caused all the present trouble and misery, so it is necessary to decide that there is no other means in the world to rectify our affairs, than to turn our disunion, dispute and discord into a good treaty.
This is a major new English-language edition of five central texts in the historyof the political thought of the Dutch Revolt. Published between 1570 and1590 these texts exemplify the development of the political ideas whichmotivated and legitimated the resistance to the government of Philip lI in theLow Countries, and which became the cmcial part of the ideologicalfoundations of the Dutch Republic as it started to become one of Europe'smain powers. Ks is shown by the 1570'Defence and True Declaration', the1576 Address and Opening', the 1579 ' Brief Discourse', the 1582 PoliticalEducation and the 1587 ' Short Exposition ' notions of liberty,constitutionalism, representation and popular soverei~ty were of centralimportance to the political thought and the revolutionary events of the DutchRevolt. In the introduction, which locates the five texts in their political andintellectual context, Martin van Gelderen argues that the Revolt's oliticalthought was as much inspired by the indigenous legacy of Dutchconstitutionalism and civic consciousness as by the intellectual legacy of thelateMiddle Ages, Renaissance and Refomaation.Biographical notes and numerous annotations are provided to aid the student mexploring some of the most innovative texts of the Dutch Revolt; this editionalso includes a chronology of the Revolt's main events and a guide to furtherreading.
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