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[...] Renon de France, however, says well that 'the edicts published beforehand in the name of the king' (l. were not enough to stem the looting, but he seems to ignore that the months that preceded them saw the defiance towards the Habsburg power spreading to all levels of society, a defiance that partially explains the failure of the authorities at the time of the iconoclastic fury. This inefficiency of the Inquisition is partly explained by the resistance, not mentioned in the text, that it encountered from part of the nobility, who had sent Count Egmont, a Catholic, as an emissary to the king in Madrid at the beginning of the year to try to make him less intransigent. [...]
[...] History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006 - Piot C. History of the Troubles of the Netherlands by Messire Renon de France, t. Bruxelles, Charles Piot, 1886- vol. - Regnault J.-M., Vermander P. The Iconoclastic Crisis of 1566 in the Armentières Region. Essay of Description and Interpretation. In:Revue du Nord, tome 59, n°233, April-June 1977. [...]
[...] pp. 221-231. - Spaans J., 'Catholicism and Resistance to the Reformation in the Northern Netherlands', in Ph. Benedictet al., Reformation, Revolt and Civil War in France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585, Amsterdam, 1999, p. [...]
[...] Works of J. Calvin, collected for the first time; preceded by his life by Théodore de Bèze, and a bibliographic notice by P. L. Jacob, bibliophile (P. Lacroix) Paris, Charles Gosselin 248p. - Lottin A. The 'smashers' of the summer 1566: iconoclasm in the north, Paris, Hachette, 1981 - Malia M. [...]
[...] What Renon de France highlights first is the sudden, unprecedented nature of the iconoclastic wave, a phenomenon that spread like a contagion to several places in the Netherlands, and seems to defy all explanation. The revolt targets 'churches, cloisters and monasteries' (l.1) of the Catholic Church, testifying to its specifically iconoclastic character, directed against the symbols and places of worship of the Catholic Church. It spread throughout the Netherlands, 'starting in the bailiwick of Cassel, Bailleul, Estaires, bailiwick of Lille, Ypres, Ghent, from there to Antwerp, Bois-le-Duc, and on this example successively in other places, Tournai, Valenciennes, Malines, provinces of Gueldre, of Holland, Zealand and Frisia' (l. [...]
