Screen LibraryMonarchy 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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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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 England (1457-1509, 1509-1553), Isabella of Castile (1474-1504) and Ferdinand of Aragon (1479-1516) were, by improving royal administration, by bringing more continuity to communication with their estates and by introducing more regular taxation, all seen to have served that goal. In this view, princes were assigned to the role of developing and implementing the sinews of state as a sovereign entity characterized by the coherence of its territorial borders and its central administration and government. They shed medieval traditions of counsel and instead enforced relations of obedience toward the emerging 'state'."--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781316510247 1316510247 |
| Index Number: | D231 |
| CLC: | D750.21-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.21-09/M735 |
| Contents: |
Dynasties, realms, peoples and state formation, 1500-1720 / Dynastic monarchy and the consolidation of aristocracy during Europe's long seventeenth century / Dynastic instability, the emergence of the French monarchical commonwealth and the coming of the rhetoric of 'L'état', 1360s to 1650s / Setting limits to grandeur : preserving the Spanish monarchy in an iron century / The new monarchy in France, the social elites and the society of princes / The king and the family : primogeniture and the Lombard nobility in the Spanish monarchy / Portugal's elites and the status of the kingdom of Portugal within the Spanish monarchy / In the service of the dynasty : building a career in the Habsburg household, 1550-1650 / Revolutionary absolutism and the elites of the Danish monarchy in the long seventeenth century / The 'new monarchy' as despotic beast : the perspective of the lesser mobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s / The crisis of sacral monarchy in England in the late seventeenth century in comparative perspective / Rethinking the relations of elites and princes in Europe, from the 1590s to the 1720s / |