Monarchy Transformed: Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe PDF
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Monarchy Transformed This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europeexaminesthenewmonarchiesthatemergedduringthecourseof the‘longseventeenthcentury’.Itarguesthattheplayerssurvivingthe power struggles of this period were not ‘states’ in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions andprincelyprestigebuttheconsequencesofdynasticchance.Atthe 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 channelsthatthegoverningdynastyoffered,ifonlysotheycouldprofit fromthem.MonarchyTransformedultimatelychallengestheinevitability ofmodernmapsofEuropeandshowshow,insteadofpromotingstate formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynasticagglomeratesandnewkindsofaristocracy. Robert von Friedeburg is Reader in History at Bishop Grosseteste Universityand Member of theAcademia Europaea.Among hisseven monographsandten(co-)editedbooksismostrecentlyLuther’sLegacy: TheThirtyYearsWarandtheModernNotionof‘State’intheEmpire,1530s to1790s(Cambridge,2016),whichwillappearinaGermaneditionina series of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt. JohnMorrillretiredin2013afterfortyyearsteachingBritish,Irishand European History at Cambridge. A major interest has been the long historical relationship between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales setinaEuropeancomparativecontext.Hehaswrittenandeditedmore thantwentybooksandpublishedmorethan100essaysandarticles,and heisaFellowoftheBritishAcademyandanHonoraryMemberofboth theRoyalIrishAcademyandtheAcademyofFinland. Monarchy Transformed Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe Editedby Robert von Friedeburg BishopGrossetesteUniversity,Lincoln John Morrill UniversityofCambridge UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 4843/24,2ndFloor,AnsariRoad,Daryaganj,Delhi–110002,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781316510247 DOI:10.1017/9781108225083 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2017 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Contents ListofFigures pagevii ListofTables viii Acknowledgements ix NotesontheContributors x 1 Introduction:MonarchyTransformed–Princesand TheirElitesinEarlyModernWesternEurope 1 robert von friedeburg and john morrill PartI DynastiesandMonarchies 15 2 Dynasties,Realms,PeoplesandStateFormation, 1500–1720 17 john morrill 3 DynasticMonarchyandtheConsolidationof AristocracyduringEurope’sLongSeventeenthCentury 44 hamish scott 4 DynasticInstability,theEmergenceoftheFrench MonarchicalCommonwealthandtheComingofthe Rhetoricof‘L’état’,1360sto1650s 87 james collins 5 SettingLimitstoGrandeur:PreservingtheSpanish MonarchyinanIronCentury 127 b. j. garci´a garci´a 6 TheNewMonarchyinFrance,theSocialElitesand theSocietyofPrinces 164 lucien be´ly v vi Contents PartII Elites,RhetoricandMonarchy 181 7 TheKingandtheFamily:Primogenitureandthe LombardNobilityintheSpanishMonarchy 183 antonio a´lvarez-ossorio alvariño 8 Portugal’sElitesandtheStatusoftheKingdomof PortugalwithintheSpanishMonarchy 212 pedro cardim 9 IntheServiceoftheDynasty:BuildingaCareerin theHabsburgHousehold,1550–1650 244 dries raeymaekers 10 RevolutionaryAbsolutismandtheElitesofthe DanishMonarchyintheLongSeventeenthCentury 267 gunner lind 11 The‘NewMonarchy’asDespoticBeast:ThePerspective oftheLesserNobilityinFranceandGermany,1630sto 1650s 287 robert von friedeburg 12 TheCrisisofSacralMonarchyinEnglandinthe LateSeventeenthCenturyinComparativePerspective 319 ronald g. asch Afterword 347 13 RethinkingtheRelationsofElitesandPrincesin Europe,fromthe1590stothe1720s 349 nicholas canny Index 382 Figures 4.1 ‘Brazilianball’atHenryII’s1550entryintoRouen, contemporaneousFrenchpainting,anonymous. page88 5.1 J.Schorquens,Silvagenealógicadelosfundadoresypríncipesdela monarquíaespañola,afteradesignbyJ.B.Lavanha, c.1619–1620.BibliotecaNacionaldeEspaña,Invent.80056. 131 5.2 FrancescoVillamena,AllegoryoftheTemperanceof PhilipIII(AllegoryofthePaxHispanica),Rome,1603. BibliotecaNacionaldeEspaña,Invent.14.740. 134 5.3 AnonymousDutchengravingofAugust1598, TheSpanishEuropeagainsttheDutchRebels,basedon SebastianMünster’smapEuroparegina.Nuremberg, GermanischesNationalmuseum,H.B.296. 161 vii Tables 2.1 TheTudorandStuartDynasties,1485–1727 page38 3.1 LandedPowerof‘New’NobilityinDenmarkafter1660 64 3.2 RiseofTitledNobilityandDeclineoftheLesserNobilityinthe EarlyModernKingdomofBohemia 83 3.3 NoblesandLordsinEarlyModernLowerAustria 83 3.4 TheRiseoftheDucs-et-PairsinBourbonFrance 84 3.5 ExpansionoftheTitledNobilityintheSpanish Monarchy,1500–1700 84 3.6 Seventeenth-CenturyExpansionofBoyarDumaCohort 85 viii
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