An Imperial Crusade? Public Opinion in Antwerp and the Response to the Bohemian Crisis
(2022) Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries) — ISBN: [9789004504370], p. 131-154, published
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- The Habsburg response to the Bohemian crisis of 1618–1620 led to two quite distinct epiphenomena in the city of Antwerp: the licensing of the city’s first newspaper, and the establishment of a confraternity of concerned citizens willing to pray for, and pledge support to, the maintenance of the legitimate authority of Catholic princes. Both these initiatives made limited use of the rhetoric and imagery of crusading, a very specific field of reference within the broader context of warfare against enemies of the Church. Such rhetoric and imagery was deployed sparingly, and in light of the institutional and fiscal implications that ‘crusading’ still bore within the Habsburg monarchy more broadly may to some extent have been counter-productive.
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Arblaster, P. (2022). An Imperial Crusade? Public Opinion in Antwerp and the Response to the Bohemian Crisis. In Renaud Adam, Rosa De Mardo, Malcolm Walsby (ed.), Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries) (p. p. 131-154). Brill. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/244085