Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: The Northland; CHAPTER THREE: Believers; CHAPTER FOUR: Revolt; CHAPTER FIVE: War; CHAPTER SIX: Treason; CHAPTER SEVEN: Vagabonds; CHAPTER EIGHT: Peasants; CHAPTER NINE: Citizens; CHAPTER TEN: Law against Terror; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Jan Jeroenszoon Again; CHAPTER TWELVE: Historiography and Propaganda; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Conclusion; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Places
Summary
In the spring of 1575, Holland's Northern Quarter--the waterlogged peninsula stretching from Amsterdam to the North Sea--was threatened with imminent invasion by the Spanish army. Since the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt a few years earlier, the Spanish had repeatedly failed to expel the rebels under William of Orange from this remote region, and now there were rumors that the war-weary population harbored traitors conspiring to help the Spanish invade. In response, rebel leaders arrested a number of vagrants and peasants, put them on the rack, and brutally tortured them until they confessed and
