Programme

Monday 19 December

9.00 - 9.30: Welcome

9.30 - 12.00: War and the common man (Chair: Henk van Nierop)

Peter de Cauwer (University of Amsterdam), Espionage, intelligence and treason during the Eighty Years' war. The case of Jan Lenertsz. Schouten of Rotterdam (1629)
Professor René Vermeir (Ghent University), The High Command of the Army of Flanders, 1621-1648. Military and political consequences of social envy at the top
Dr Hans Cools (Royal Dutch Historical Institute in Rome), City governments, the common man and warfare in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1477-1559
Comment: Dr Paul Knevel (University of Amsterdam)

12.00 - 13.00: Lunch

13.00 - 15.30: War in the village, strategies of survival (Chair: Marjolein 't Hart)

Leo Adriaenssen (Tilburg University), Defence of the defenceless
Dr John Theibault (Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia), Strategies of Survival for the Villages of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War: The Process of Adaptation to Constant Warfare
Dr Frank Kleinehagenbrock (Universität Wurzburg), War in the village: Villagers and soldiers living together unintentionally during the Thirty Years’ war
Comment: Professor Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp)

16.00 - 17.00: Dr Olaf van Nimwegen (University of Amsterdam), From mercenary to professional: the army of the Dutch Republic (1588-1688)

17.00 - 18.00: Drinks offered by Brill Academic Publishers

Tuesday 20 December

10.00 - 12.30: Bottom-up state building: the power of local elites and the emergence of the fiscal-military state in early modern Europe (Chair: Olaf van Nimwegen)

Professor Jan Glete (Stockholm University), Local elites and complex organisations. Interaction, innovations and the emergence of the early modern fiscal-military states
Griet Vermeesch (University of Amsterdam), Bottom-up state building in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg (1570-1680)
Professor Michael Wolfe (Pennsylvania State University), Views from Below: Local Elites and the Medieval Origins of the Fiscal-Military State in France, 1550-1700
Comment: Professor Maarten Prak (Utrecht University)

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch

13.30 - 15.00: Visit to Delft

15.00 - 16.00: Visit to the Prinsenhof

16.00 - 17.00: Dr Marjolein 't Hart (University of Amsterdam), War and society in the Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt: a comparative perspective.

17.00 - 18.00: Professor James D. Tracy (University of Minnesota), "Mighty Bridges and Hares in Armor: the Genesis of Justus Lipsius's DE MILITIA ROMANA".

Wednesday 21 December

9.30 - 12.00: Military professionalisation in Europe, c. 1550-1700
(Chair: Herman Amersfoort)

Dr David Trim (Newbold College), From vocation to profession? The development of military professionalism in early-modern Europe Erik Swart (University of Amsterdam), Out of the shadow of Maurice. Military professionalisation in the Low Countries c. 1550 - c. 1590 Dr Michiel de Jong (Institute of Military History), Military professionalisation and state formation in the Netherlands, 1500-1650
Comment: Dr Guy Rowlands (University of St. Andrews)

12.00 - 12.30: Concluding remarks (Marjolein 't Hart)

12.30 -13.00: Lunch