Add to ORKGThis 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 that survived the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambition and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance
As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often infor...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
This thesis examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern peri...
The introduction summarizes the argument of the book 'Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites...
The introduction discusses the concepts of dynasty and state formation and their interrelated nature...
The fourteen essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments f...
The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early moder...
Discussions on the nature and evolution of pre-modern European polities are as old as history itself...
International audience\textemdashThis presentation of recent work on the formation and the growth of...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the...
Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic ...
Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic c...
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early moder...
As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often infor...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
This thesis examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern peri...
The introduction summarizes the argument of the book 'Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites...
The introduction discusses the concepts of dynasty and state formation and their interrelated nature...
The fourteen essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments f...
The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early moder...
Discussions on the nature and evolution of pre-modern European polities are as old as history itself...
International audience\textemdashThis presentation of recent work on the formation and the growth of...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
What determined success or failure in Renaissance monarchy? Why was warfare endemic in Europe in the...
Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic ...
Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. In an era marked by dramatic c...
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early moder...
As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often infor...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
This thesis examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern peri...