Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe.

• Superior document: Rulers and Elites Series
• Author: Edwards, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Rulers and Elites Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and beyond. If both parties benefited, rival political theories of the divine right of monarchs and consensual rule tended to undermine the working relationship, at times violently.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Personal Monarchy -- Chapter 1 A Renaissance King Makes War: Francis I of France, His Counsellors and Strategic Decisions in an Era of Personal Monarchy -- Chapter 2 Heinrich Schlick, the Shadow First Minister of Emperor Ferdinand III: a New Model of Imperial Factional Politics in the 1630s-1640s -- Chapter 3 Charles I's Execution and the Destiny of Monarchy in Britain and Europe -- Chapter 4 The Scots-Dutch Moment? The Scots-Dutch Brigade and the Highland War, 1689-1691 -- Chapter 5 Balanced on the Brink: Scottish Jacobite Histories of Stuart Absolutism -- Part 2 Rulers and the Provincial Elite -- Chapter 6 Henry VIII, Francis I and the Reformation Parliament, 1529-1539 -- Chapter 7 Conflict or Cooperation between the Monarch and the Social and Political Elite? Negotiating Power and the Political Balance in Sixteenth Century Portugal -- Chapter 8 Governing at a Distance: Manuel Teles Barreto, Philip II's First Governor-General in Brazil, and the Elites of Salvador da Bahia (c.1583-1587) -- Chapter 9 Tied up in Red Tape: the Failure to Establish Absolutism in the Elective Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th Centuries -- Part 3 Government, Towns and the Economy -- Chapter 10 Conditional or Absolute? Representations of the King's Power in Sixteenth Century Spanish and French Accounts -- Chapter 11 The Intersection between London and the Regions at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century The Social and Political Life of William Cavendish, Baron Hardwick (Later 1st Earl of Devonshire) -- Chapter 12 Clothing the Royal Family: the Intersection of the Court and City in Early Stuart London -- Chapter 13 Crown Policy, Church Decrees and Civic Necessity: Non-Lutheran Migration to Scandinavia in the Early Modern Period -- Conclusion -- Index.