Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, et cetera, but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely h...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Building Dynasties, Shaping States: Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe (Liesbeth Geevers and Harald Gustafsson)
- 2. Divine Right of Dynasty. Deposing the God-Given Monarch in Protestant Europe (Cathleen Sarti)
- 3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty (Fabian Persson)
- 4. The Austrian Nephews: The Offspring of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria at the Service of the Spanish King (Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva)
- 5. Sixteen Corpses: The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen (Liesbeth Geevers)
- 6. An Elected Dynasty of Sweden? Blood, Charisma and Representative Monarchy (Mats Hallenberg)
- 7. Narrowing Dynastic Rule. Models of Governance, Social Conflict and the Hobbesian Bargain in Early Modern Sweden (1560-1718) (Joakim Scherp)
- 8. The Nassaus and State Formation in Pre-Modern Germany (Jasper van der Steen)
- 9. The Frustrations of Being the Spare: Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society, 1560s-1780s (Jonathan Spangler)
- 10. Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe. A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and three Houses of the Empire (Harald Gustafsson)
- 11. Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Claus Christoffersen Lyschander, Vitus Bering, Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen (Sebastian Olden-Jorgensen).