Exiles-Migrants and Reconciliation in the Spanish Low Countries after the Peace of Arras (1579) ; Exiliados-migrantes y reconciliación en los Países Bajos después de la Paz de Arras (1579)

This article contributes to the assessment of the management of migrants at the end of the 16th century as part of the challenge, by both central and municipal authorities, for ending the civil war in the Spanish Low Countries. In particular, it questions to what extent experiences of exiles, returnees and migrants presented a challenge for families, economic regulation and public order in the French-speaking reconciled provinces (Hainaut, Artois and the Walloon Flanders), in the new framework of the pacification and religious normalization. It focuses on how did the towns, when confronted wit... Mehr ...