Introduction. Part 1: Origins, 1200-1572 1. To the Close of the Fourteenth Century 2. The Fifteenth Century 3. The ‘Golden Age’ Part 2: The closure, 1572-1780 4. The Eighty Years’ War, 1572-1648 5. The Münster Regime, 1648-1780 Part 3: The Reopening, 1780-1839 6. The End of the Closure, 1780-1830 7. The Belgian Revolution and the Treaty of November 1831 8. The Theme of Lord Palmerston 9. The Convention of May 1833 and the Treaties of April 1839.
