Monarchy Transformed: Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe

ISBN-13: 9781316649633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 405 str.

Robert Von Friedeburg; John Morrill

Opis

A decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe.

Recenzje

'This is an important book that will be essential reading for historians of state formation and nobilities … will stimulate further research on a whole range of significant aspects of early modern history.' Alistair Malcolm, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction: monarchy transformed - princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe Robert von Friedeburg and John Morrill; Part I. Dynasties and Monarchies: 2. Dynasties, realms, peoples and state formation, 1500–1720 John Morrill; 3. Dynastic monarchy and the consolidation of aristocracy during Europe's long seventeenth-century Hamish Scott; 4. Dynastic instability, the emergence of the French monarchical commonwealth and the coming of the rhetoric of 'L'état', 1360s to 1650s James Collins; 5. Setting limits to grandeur: preserving the Spanish monarchy in an iron century B. J.Garcia Garcia; 6. The new monarchy in France, the social elites and the society of princes Lucien Bely; Part II. Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy: 7. The King and the family: primogeniture and the Lombard nobility in the Spanish monarchy Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño; 8. Portugal's elites and political status within the Spanish monarchy Pedro Cardim; 9. In the service of the dynasty: building a career in the Habsburg household, 1550–1650 Dries Raeymakers; 10. Revolutionary absolutism and the elites of the Danish monarchy in the long seventeenth century Gunner Lind; 11. The 'New Monarchy' as despotic beast: the perspective of the lesser nobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s Robert von Friedeburg; 12. The crisis of sacral monarchy in England in the late seventeenth century in comparative perspective Ronald G. Asch; Afterword. Rethinking the relations of elites and princes in Europe from the 1590s to the 1720s Nicholas Canny.