Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment : : The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 / / Ronald G. Asch.

France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal...

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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in British and Imperial History ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I The Anglo-Gallican Moment: The French and English Monarchies from the Death of Mary Queen of Scots to James I’s Remonstrance for the Right of Kings 1587–1615
  • II Kingship Transformed – Kingship Destroyed? The French and English Monarchies in the 1630s and 1640s
  • III In the Shadow of Versailles: Stuart Kingship and the French Monarchy 1678–1688
  • Outlook and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index