Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe /

"Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. John I of Portugal (1358-1433), Charles VII (1403-1461) and Louis XI (1423-1483) of France, Henry VII and Henry VIII of Englan...

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Other Authors: Friedeburg, Robert von (Editor), Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dynasties, realms, peoples and state formation, 1500-1720 / John Morrill
  • Dynastic monarchy and the consolidation of aristocracy during Europe's long seventeenth century / Hamish Scott
  • Dynastic instability, the emergence of the French monarchical commonwealth and the coming of the rhetoric of 'L'état', 1360s to 1650s / James Collins
  • Setting limits to grandeur : preserving the Spanish monarchy in an iron century / B. J. García García
  • The new monarchy in France, the social elites and the society of princes / Lucien Bély
  • The king and the family : primogeniture and the Lombard nobility in the Spanish monarchy / Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño
  • Portugal's elites and the status of the kingdom of Portugal within the Spanish monarchy / Pedro Cardim
  • In the service of the dynasty : building a career in the Habsburg household, 1550-1650 / Dries Raeymaekers
  • Revolutionary absolutism and the elites of the Danish monarchy in the long seventeenth century / Gunner Lind
  • The 'new monarchy' as despotic beast : the perspective of the lesser mobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s / Robert von Friedeburg
  • The crisis of sacral monarchy in England in the late seventeenth century in comparative perspective / Ronald G. Asch
  • Rethinking the relations of elites and princes in Europe, from the 1590s to the 1720s / Nicholas Canny.