caa a22 4500 386312710 CHVBK 20180307111554.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015073 doi S0010417500015073 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015073 Te Brake Wayne P. State University of New York at Purchase Violence in the Dutch Patriot Revolution [Elektronische Daten] [Wayne P. Te Brake] In the small provincial cities of the eastern Netherlands, the annual election of magistrates and town councilors was perhaps the most important public ritualof the year under the old regime. The elaborate and often solemn ceremony symbolized ancient chartered liberties—even when results of the co-optative elections were a foregone conclusion—and thus served to reinforce the community's sense of corporate identity. In 1786, however, in the midst of astruggle for control of the city, the annual Petrikeur in Deventer got out of hand. The day started out normally enough with the traditional worship service in the Grote Kerk, but after the black-robed members of the town council had passed in procession across the square to the stadhuis, a group of dissident councilors, who called themselves Patriots and were implacably opposed to the influence of the stadhouder in municipal politics, attacked aportrait of Prince William III of Orange, the stadhouder who in 1675 first insinuated himself into the electoral process. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1988-01), 143-163 0010-4175 30:1<143 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015073 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015073 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Te Brake Wayne P. State University of New York at Purchase NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1988-01), 143-163 0010-4175 30:1<143 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 224337718 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge