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This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise and even advancement through new channels that the governing dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy.

Title Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe / edited by Robert von Friedeburg, John Morrill. [electronic resource]
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2017
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2017).
Content Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Monarchy Transformed - Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe -- Part I Dynasties and Monarchies -- 2 Dynasties, Realms, Peoples and State Formation, 1500-1720 -- 3 Dynastic Monarchy and the Consolidation of Aristocracy during Europe's Long Seventeenth Century -- 4 Dynastic Instability, the Emergence of the French Monarchical Commonwealth and the Coming of the Rhetoric of 'L'état', 1360s to 1650s -- 5 Setting Limits to Grandeur: Preserving the Spanish Monarchy in an Iron Century -- 6 The New Monarchy in France, the Social Elites and the Society of Princes -- Part II Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy -- 7 The King and the Family: Primogeniture and the Lombard Nobility in the Spanish Monarchy -- 8 Portugal's Elites and the Status of the Kingdom of Portugal within the Spanish Monarchy -- 9 In the Service of the Dynasty: Building a Career in the Habsburg Household, 1550-1650 -- 10 Revolutionary Absolutism and the Elites of the Danish Monarchy in the Long Seventeenth Century -- 11 The 'New Monarchy' as Despotic Beast: The Perspective of the Lesser Nobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s -- 12 The Crisis of Sacral Monarchy in England in the Late Seventeenth Century in Comparative Perspective -- Afterword -- 13 Rethinking the Relations of Elites and Princes in Europe from the 1590s to the 1720s -- Index.
Extent 1 online resource (xi, 393 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997012635345205171
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