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Richelieu's Army
War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642
Inbunden, 2001
2314 kr
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It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study of the French army during the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu (1624-42) shows how the expansion of the war effort was not matched by army reform but by a reliance on traditional mechanisms of control. The …
Altopascio
A Study in Tuscan Rural Society, 1587-1784
Av Frank McArdle, John Elliott
Häftad, 2005
603 kr
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This is an interdisciplinary study of a large Italian estate which belonged to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Medici administrators kept detailed records of the activities of their subjects and these have been used by the author to analyse the demographic, social, economic and political …
Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion
The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy
Av Stuart Carroll, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion and the first substantial study of the Guise - the most powerful family of the period - to appear for over a …
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century …
Henry IV and the Towns
The Pursuit of Legitimacy in French Urban Society, 1589-1610
Av S. Annette Finley-Croswhite, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
623 kr
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This 1999 book is a serious study of Henry IV's relationship with the towns of France, and offers an in-depth analysis of a crucial aspect of his craft of kingship. Set in the context of the later Wars of Religion, it examines Henry's achievement in reforging an alliance with the towns by comparing …
Kingship and Favoritism in the Spain of Philip III, 1598-1621
Av Antonio Feros, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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The enthronement of Philip III of Spain (Philip II's son and heir) in 1598 also meant the rise to power of the duke of Lerma, the first of a series of European favourites/prime ministers who influenced greatly politics, government, court culture and the arts during the seventeenth century. This …
The Reformation of Community
Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620
Av Charles H. Parker, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
687 kr
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By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended to care for their own church members, who were by definition 'within the household of faith', through the …
Richelieu's Army
War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642
Av David Parrott, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
885 kr
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It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study of the French army during the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu (1624-42) shows how the expansion of the war effort was not matched by army reform but by a reliance on traditional mechanisms of control. The …
The Quest for Compromise
Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna
Av Howard Louthan, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
623 kr
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The Quest for Compromise is an interdisciplinary study of the imperial court in late sixteenth-century Vienna, and a detailed examination of a fascinating moment of religious moderation. Against a backdrop of rising religious and confessional dogmatism, the Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576) …
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts
Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
Av Kathy Stuart, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
938 kr
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This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the …
The Other Prussia
Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772
Av Karin Friedrich, John Elliott m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
738 kr
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This book considers the phenomenon of nation-building before the age of modern nationalism. It focuses on royal (Polish) Prussia - the 'other' Prussia - a province of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1466 to 1772/3, and its major cities Danzig, Thorn and Elbing. As an integral part of the …
The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State
Venice c.1400 to 1617
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the …
The Limits of Royal Authority
Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile
Häftad, 2007
787 kr
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In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. Whereas there was little open conflict, there was sometimes a surprising degree of autonomy, rights and reciprocity on the …
The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775
Av H. M. Scott
Häftad, 2007
938 kr
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Throughout the nineteenth century, international relations in Europe were dominated by five great powers - Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia. The creation of this system has been located traditionally in the long struggle with revolutionary and Napoleonic France. By contrast, this study …
Monarchies, States Generals and Parliaments
The Netherlands in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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This 2001 book charts the history of the States General - the parliament - of the Netherlands and its relations with two phases of monarchical rule in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Unlike the English parliament, the States General was a composite body, representing the local estates of the …
The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century
Av James Casey
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Drawing on hitherto unpublished sources James Casey explores two major themes in Spanish historiography - the consequences of the expulsion of the Moriscos (heavily concentrated in Valencia in the early seventeenth century), and the way in which the Habsburg Monarchy kept or lost control over its …
France and the Estates General of 1614
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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In 1614 the French Estates General met for the last time before the Revolution of 1789. The meeting marks the beginning of the political career of Cardinal Richelieu and provides an opportunity for studying the regency of Marie de Medicis. In another sense 1614 marks the end of the Estates General …
The Changing Face of Empire
Charles V, Phililp II and Habsburg Authority, 1551-1559
Av M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado
Häftad, 2008
821 kr
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Using a vast range of primary sources, this substantial and important volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the division and near-collapse of Habsburg authority during the 1550s. The principal episodes of this period (the death of Charles V, the accession of Philip II, and the latter's …
Reform and Revolution in Mainz 1743-1803
Häftad, 2008
672 kr
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On one level a history of the Electorate of Mainz in the eighteenth century, this book also seeks to illuminate a much wider area. In particular it is intended to be a contribution to the debate on the 'German Problem' - the growing cultural and political divergence between Germany and Western …
Neostoicism and the Early Modern State
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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Neostoicism was one of the most important intellectual movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It started in the Protestant Netherlands during the revolt against Catholic Spain. Very quickly it began to influence both the theory and practice of politics in many parts of Europe. It …
Filippo Strozzi and the Medici
Favor and Finance in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Rome
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538), the Florentine aristocrat and banker, is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile, he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city's new dukes. His place in Florentine history, …
Chronicle Into History
An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth-Century Chronicles
Av Louis Green
Häftad, 2008
535 kr
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In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city's vernacular …
Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544-1569
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular religious upheavals which occurred during the …
French Finances 1770-1795
From Business to Bureaucracy
Av J. F. Bosher
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly …
The State, War and Peace
Spanish Political Thought in the Renaissance 1516-1559
Av J. A. Fernández-Santamaria
Häftad, 2008
605 kr
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This is a comprehensive study in English of political thought in Spain during the Renaissance. In the early sixteenth century Castile experienced two major constitutional crises caused by the accession of a Habsburg ruler (shortly to become Holy Roman Emperor) to her throne, and by the discovery …
The Emperor and His Chancellor
A Study of the Imperial Chancellery under Gattinara
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative …
The Nobility of Holland
From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650
Häftad, 2009
619 kr
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This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the nobility played a significant role, but in the seventeenth century it appears to have been obliterated by …
The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV
Royal Service and Private Interest 1661-1701
Av Guy Rowlands
Häftad, 2010
838 kr
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The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis XIV as a living political, social and economic …
Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc
Av William Beik
Häftad, 1989
677 kr
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Why was Louis XIV successful in pacifying the same aristocrats who had caused so much trouble for Richelieu and Mazarin? What role did absolutism play in reinforming or changing the traditional social system in seventeenth-century France? In this analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism, …
The Nobility of Holland
From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650
Inbunden, 1993
1529 kr
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This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the nobility played a significant role, but in the seventeenth century it appears to have been obliterated by …
