Books by Peter Arnade

An example of microhistory at its best, this book offers a new perspective on the socal history of medieval and early modern Europe and on historiography more broadly.

A new history of the Dutch Revolt that shows how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action.

While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal...