Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690).

• Superior document: Later medieval Europe ; Volume 15
• Author: Mario Damen; Jelle Haemers; Alastair J. Mann (Volume Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Damen, Mario, 1969-; Haemers, Jelle,; Mann, Alastair J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Later Medieval Europe 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages).

Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690) , a scholarly collection on representation in medieval and early modern Europe, opens up the field of institutional and parliamentary history to new paradigms of representation across a wide geography and chronology - as testified by the volume’s studies on assemblies ranging from Burgundy and Brabant to Ireland and Italy. The focus is on three areas: institutional developments of representative institutions in Western Europe; the composition of these institutions concerning interest groups and individual participants; and the ideological environment of representatives in time and space. By analysing the balance between bottom-up and top-down approaches to the functioning of institutions of representation; by studying the actors behind the representative institutions linking prosopographical research with changes in political dialogue; and by exploring the ideological world of representation, this volume makes a key contribution to the historiography of pre-modern government and political culture. Contributors are María Asenjo-González, Wim Blockmans, Mario Damen, Coleman A. Dennehy, Jan Dumolyn, Marco Gentile, David Grummitt, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Alastair J. Mann, Tim Neu, Ida Nijenhuis, Michael Penman, Graeme Small, Robert Stein and Marie Van Eeckenrode.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- An Introduction: Political Representation / Mario Damen , Jelle Haemers and Alastair J. Mann -- Top-down or Bottom-up? Princes, Communities and Representation -- Assemblies of Estates and Parliamentarism in Later Medieval Europe / Peter Hoppenbrouwers -- Political Representation and the Fiscal State in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile / María Asenjo-González -- Forms of Political Representation in Late Medieval Northern Italy / Marco Gentile -- Representation in Later Medieval and Early Modern Ireland / Coleman A. Dennehy -- Speaking in the Name of / Tim Neu -- Prelates, Nobles and Patricians: The Composition of the Representative Institutions -- “The King wishes and commands”? Reassessing Political Assembly in Scotland, c. 1286-1329 / Michael Penman -- Officers of State and Representation in the Pre-modern Scottish Parliament / Alastair J. Mann -- The Nobility in the Estates of the Late Medieval Duchy of Brabant / Mario Damen -- Representation by Numbers / Ida Nijenhuis -- Controlling the State: Ideas and Discourses -- The Antwerp Clerk Jan van Boendale and the Creation of a Brabantine Ideology / Robert Stein -- Rituals of Unanimity and Balance: Deliberation in 15th- to 16th-century HainautA Fool’s Game? / Marie Van Eeckenrode -- Speech Acts and Political Communication in the Estates General of Valois and Habsburg Burgundy c. 1370-1530 / Jan Dumolyn and Graeme Small -- Parliament, War and the “Public Sphere” in Late Medieval England / David Grummitt -- Who Has a Say? The Conditions for the Emergence and Maintenance of Political Participation in Europe before 1800 / Wim Blockmans -- Conclusion / Mario Damen , Jelle Haemers and Alastair J. Mann.