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James B. Collins - The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356-1560, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356-1560

Av James B. Collins

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How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance. Forged in the Hundred Years War, this commonwealth built on the defense of the public good (bien public) came undone both practically and theoretically during the Wars of Religion. Just as certain kings sought to expand the royal prerogative, so, too, elites fought to preserve their control over local government. Using town archives from more than twenty cities to complement traditional sources of political theory, The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356-1560 establishes the relationship between seemingly theoretical constructs, like the Salic Law, and the reality of everyday politics.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-05-19
  • Mått: 158 x 235 x 21 mm
  • Vikt: 620 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108473309
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James B. Collins is Professor of History at Georgetown University. His seven books include The State in Early Modern France (Cambridge University Press, 1995; 2nd ed. 2008) and La monarchie républicaine ( 2016), based on his lectures at the Collège de France. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese.

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'Subjects of the king of France acted as if they were citizens of a 'monarchical commonwealth' from the middle of the fourteenth century until the Wars of Religion. In this marvelous and novel work, James B. Collins recovers an underappreciated political discourse in competition with 'the monarchical one' and proposes that 'this commonwealth discourse was, in fact, France's primary language of politics' during this period … This is a great and ambitious book from a senior scholar that causes us to look with new eyes upon late medieval and early modern France.' Tyler Lange, Journal of Modern History

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