The Limits of Royal Authority: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile

ISBN-13: 9780521643436 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 210 str.

Ruth MacKay

Opis

In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military levies in the 1630s and 1640s. The assurance with which such a range of people addressed the crown reveals a society in which a great number of people had a great deal to say about the definition and use of political power.

Recenzje

'… excellent little study.' History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Recruitment and royal authority; 2. Making soldiers of townsmen; 3. War, lords, and vassals; 4. Common claims; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.