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Albert and Isabella: Essays.


Thomas, Werner and Luc Duerloo, eds. Albert and Isabella: Essays.

Brussels: Royal Museum of Art and History, Brepols, 1998. 368 pp. illus. n.p. ISBN: 2-503-50726-3.

The essays in this collection cover the history of the Netherlands The present-day territory of the Netherlands has been inhabited since the paleolithic. The historical period sets in with the Roman Empire, as the parts south of the Rhine were included in the province of Gallia Belgica, and later of Germania Inferior.  under the reign of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, from the Cession The act of relinquishing one's right.

A surrender, relinquishment, or assignment of territory by one state or government to another.

The territory of a foreign government gained by the transfer of sovereignty.


CESSION, contracts.
 of the Netherlands (1598) to Albert's death in 1621. Essays include: Werner Thomas, "The Reign of Albert & Isabella in the Southern Netherlands, 1598-1621"; Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, "Archduke Albert of Austria Albert of Austria may refer to:
  • Albert I of Germany (1282-1308), Duke of Austria
  • Duke Albert II of Austria (1298-1358)
  • Duke Albert III of Austria (1349-1395)
  • Duke Albert IV of Austria (1377-1404)
 as Viceroy of Portugal (1583-1593)"; Paul Arblaster, "The Archdukes and the Northern Counter-Reformation"; Christopher Brown, "Ruebens and the Archdukes"; Krista de Jonge, "Building Policy and Urbanisation during the Reign of the Archdukes"; Jan Papy and Toon Van Houdt, "The Image of Archduke Albert in Seventeenth-Century Funeral Literature"; Paul Arblaster, "The Press Image of the Infanta Infanta

laughs at the death of the little Dwarf who can no longer dance for her. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde “The Birthday of the Infanta”]

See : Heartlessness
 Isabella."
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