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Author Topic: Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange  (Read 913 times)

Offline Vanvlak

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Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange
« on: April 22, 2018, 08:15:27 AM »
The subject is clear, I guess - could anyone please recommend a good biography of Maurice (or Maurits, I believe) of Orange? Thanks in advance.

Offline 1ngram

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Re: Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2018, 04:21:44 PM »
This is the only book I have ever come across.  It deasls with all the princes in turn: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=rowen&cm_sp=SearchF-_-NullResults-_-Results&tn=The+princes+of+Orange%3A

Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2018, 04:30:41 PM »
This is the only book I have ever come across.  It deasls with all the princes in turn: https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=rowen&cm_sp=SearchF-_-NullResults-_-Results&tn=The+princes+of+Orange%3A
Thank you - I hadn't found this one (probably as I was looking for Maurice in the title - I'll probably get it.  8)

Offline henerius

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Re: Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2018, 05:07:39 PM »
When you type Prins Mauritz in Wiki Dutch the reading list is this:
Deursen van, A.Th., Maurits van Nassau 1567-1625, Bakker, Amsterdam, 2000. ISBN 9789035128033.
Groen, Petra (redactie), De Tachtigjarige Oorlog. Van opstand naar geregelde oorlog. 1568-1648, Uitgeverij Boom, Amsterdam, 2013. ISBN 9789461054753.
Hellinga, Gerben Graddesz, Leiders van de Gouden Eeuw, Walburg Pers, Zutphen, 2009. ISBN 9789057306235.
Israel, J.I., De Republiek 1477-1806, Uitgeverij Van Wijnen, Franeker, 2008. ISBN 9789051943375.
Kikkert, J.G., Maurits van Nassau, Aspekt, Soesterberg, 2008. ISBN 9789059117310.
Parker, G., The military revolution, Cambridge university press, Cambridge, 1988. ISBN 0521326079.
Zandvliet, Kees (red.), Maurits, prins van Oranje, Rijksmuseum / Waanders, Amsterdam / Zwolle, 2000. ISBN 9040094977.

on the English Wiki they give this reading list:
Parker, Geoffrey. "The Limits to Revolutions in Military Affairs: Maurice of Nassau, the Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600), and the Legacy," Journal of Military History (2007) 71#2 pp 331–372.
Herbert H. Rowen, The princes of Orange: the stadholders in the Dutch Republic. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
John Lothrop Motley, "History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort". London: John Murray, 1860.
John Lothrop Motley, "The Life and Death of John of Barenvelt". New York & London: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1900.
Petrus Johannes Blok, "History of the people of the Netherlands". New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898.

The book already suggested seems to be in the english list. The top one in the dutch list seems the most complete.

I hope this helps.

Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Help please - recommend a biography of Maurice of Orange
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2018, 03:48:27 PM »
Thanks very much henerius - I would have to restrict myself to the English texts regrettably (I could manage Italian or Maltese, but if I want a book on Maurice in Maltese I think I'd have to write it myself).
The Cambridge book, also indicated by 1ngram, seems a good bet; I'll try to get the journal paper too.

cheers  :D 8)