**POSTPONED** Violet Soen - Philip II, the Habsburg dynasty and the Dutch revolt

Thursday 12 March 2020 (Week 8), 11.15am
Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
philip ii of spain berating william the silent prince of orange by cornelis kruseman

Violet Soen is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. A specialist in the religious and political history of the Spanish Monarchy, the Low Countries and France, she has published books in Dutch on the Inquisition in the Low Countries and the Habsburg attempts at peace and reconciliation during the Dutch Revolt. Her English works include Church, Censorship and Reform in the Early Modern Habsburg Netherlands (2017), and the special issue ‘How to Do Transregional History: A Concept, Method and Tool for Early Modern Border Research’, Journal of Early Modern History (2017).

 

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