In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers that governed Europe. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems.
In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between t...
This is the first volume to appear in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, which arises from an important international research program sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievements of the research program has been to overcome the...
This is the first volume to appear in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, which arises from an important international research program ...
No study of the making of the modern European state can ignore the part played by law. This comprehensive volume examines in detail how states availed themselves of juridical techniques in order to shape their institutions, to take control over their territory, and to exercise power over their subjects. The contributors, leading scholars in the field, explore the administration of justice and the promulgation of legislation across Europe over a period of several centuries, in order to uncover the role of the law in the birth and development of the European state. The Origins of the...
No study of the making of the modern European state can ignore the part played by law. This comprehensive volume examines in detail how states availed...
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralized national states, there emerged a range of religious and...
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political ...
