CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION --- Wayne te Brake and Wim Klooster -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS --- Jan de Vries -- THE REBELLIONS OF SOUTHERN LOW COUNTRIES' TOWNS DURING THE FOURTEENTH ANDFI FTEENTH CENTURIES --- Kelly DeVries -- THE DISTORTED MESSAGES OF PEACE: CONTROLLED AND UNCONTROLLED REACTIONS TO PROPAGANDA IN THE BURGUNDIAN LOW COUNTRIES DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY --- Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin -- BEGGARS AND ICONOCLASTS: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF ICONOCLASM ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS --- Peter Arnade -- CONFESSIONAL CLEANSING: WHY AMSTERDAM DID NOT JOIN THE REVOLT (1572-1578) --- Henk Van Nierop -- POWER BY CONSTRUCTION: WHICH CITIES WHERE? PROBLEMS IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY TIMBER SUPPLIES, SAWMILLS, AND LABOR --- Elva Kathleen Lyon -- INSTITUTIONS, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC POLICIES IN HABSBURG HOLLAND: THE DECLINE OF GOUDA'S BREWING INDUSTRY, 1510-1568 --- Richard Yntema -- VISIBLE POWER? TOWN HALLS AND POLITICAL VALUES --- Joop de Jong -- STORIES ABOUT THE GALLOWS FIELD: POWER AND LAUGHTER IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AMSTERDAM --- Angela Vanhaelen -- THE STRUGGLE OVER THE SABBATH IN PETRUS STUYVESANT'S NEW AMSTERDAM --- Joyce D. Goodfriend -- 'THERE IS NO SERVICE HERE BUT MY SERVICE!' MUNICIPAL ATTEMPTS TO REGULATE DOMESTIC SERVANT BEHAVIOR IN EARLY MODERN HOLLAND --- Marybeth Carlson -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.