Unions and divisions : new forms of rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe /

"Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe, Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions...

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Other Authors: Srodecki, Paul (Editor), Kersken, Norbert (Editor), Petrauskas, Rimvydas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Series:Themes in Medieval and early modern history
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Table of Contents:
  • Medieval and Renaissance political unions : terminology and research history / Paul Srodecki
  • Unions as a structural element : preconditions, intentions, and realisations / Ludwig Steindorff
  • Dynasties and dynastic rule between elite reproduction and state building in Europe / Frederik Buylaert, Thalia Brero and Erika Graham-Goering
  • Dynastic Unions and the development of stable and extensive Christian polities in Iberia, c. 1100-c. 1300 / Luis García-Guijarro
  • The "Angevin Empire" (1150-1204) : a twelfth-century union / S.D. Church
  • The emergence of the Polish-Lithuanian union / Rimvydas Petrauskas
  • Bishop, administrator, guardian : Albert of Hoya and his reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya / Frederieke Maria Schnack
  • The title rex Galiciae between ambitions and reality (c. 1100-c. 1400) / Márta Font
  • The union between Hungary and Croatia : myths as reality / Neven Budak
  • The Lusatias in personal unions with Brandenburg and Bohemia / Norbert Kersken
  • The foreign policy of the last Přemyslids : a first attempt at unifying Central Europe? / Robert Antonín
  • How did the grand masters of the Teutonic Order interpret their dependency on the Polish Crown (1466-97)? / Adam Szweda
  • An autonomous dependency : the unstable relationship between Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown, 1466-1569 / Beata Możejko
  • Enfeoffment as a tool in the safeguarding of power? : Dithmarschen between Holsatian and archiepiscopal power claims / Stefan Brenner
  • Wenceslas II Přemyslid and Louis I of Anjou : two personal unions of the Polish Kingdom in the fourteenth century / Andrzej Marzec
  • Mary and Maximilian, Burgundy and Habsburg : the rise of an empire / Jan Hirschbiegel
  • Albert II of Habsburg's composite monarchy (1437-39) and its significance for Central Europe / Julia Burkhardt
  • King Ladislas II Jogaila of Poland, Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church union / Darius Baronas
  • The "unions" between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their Nordic precursors / Oliver Auge
  • The Nordic union wars, 1451-1523 / Jens E. Olesen
  • Policies for and from the dynastic union : the crowns of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth century / María Bonet Donato
  • Corona regni bohemiae : the integration of Central Europe as conceived by the Luxemburgs and their successors / Lenka Bobková
  • The path towards the "Danube Monarchy"? The political legacy of Emperor Sigismund and his "executors" in the fifteenth century / Přemysl Bar
  • In search of a Jagiellonian Europe : internal and external perceptions of the dynasty and its legacy in East-Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Srodecki.