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Medientyp:
Buch
Titel:
The myth of absolutism
:
change and continuity in early modern European monarchy
Enthält:
1. Valois and early Bourbons. Medieval inheritances -- Decentralised corporations -- Agents of centralisation -- Collapse and recovery -- Richelieu -- The Fronde -- 2. Louis XIV reassessed. Royal authority -- The court of the Sun King - a cliche re-examined -- Instruments of absolutism? -- Patrons, brokers and clients -- The elite -- Instruments of self-government -- 3. A high road to revolution? Faction and ideology -- Despotism or consent? A formative minority -- Louis XV and Louis XVI -- The wages of despotism -- The dominance of court faction -- 4. France and England: absolutism versus limited monarchy? Monarchs -- Courtiers -- Despots -- Bureaucrats -- Aristocrats -- 5. France and England: absolutism versus parliamentary liberties? Parliaments, estates and parlements -- 1688: the great divide? -- Economic and fiscal policy -- Civil liberties -- 6. A Theory of absolutism? Problems of evidence -- The concept of the state -- Theories of royal sovereignty -- Bodin and absolutist theory -- Two spheres of royal authority -- Absolutist legislative and emergency power? -- Absolutist versus constitutional ideologies? -- Divine right absolutism? -- Conclusions -- 7. Royal prerogatives and their context. Personal monarchy -- Prerogatives and their justification -- The main prerogatives -- Agents of the prerogative -- Prerogative enthroned -- Prerogative dethroned -- Conclusions -- 8. Liberties and consent. Monarchs and despots -- The rituals of consent -- Estates: crushed or co-operating? -- Conflict -- Enlightened despotism -- 9. Life-cycle of a myth. Birth -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Maturity -- Senility.
Bibliogr. S. 217-226
Anmerkungen:
Bibliography: p217-226.-Includes index
Beschreibung:
1. Valois and early Bourbons. Medieval inheritances -- Decentralised corporations -- Agents of centralisation -- Collapse and recovery -- Richelieu -- The Fronde -- 2. Louis XIV reassessed. Royal authority -- The court of the Sun King - a cliche re-examined -- Instruments of absolutism? -- Patrons, brokers and clients -- The elite -- Instruments of self-government -- 3. A high road to revolution? Faction and ideology -- Despotism or consent? A formative minority -- Louis XV and Louis XVI -- The wages of despotism -- The dominance of court faction -- 4. France and England: absolutism versus limited monarchy? Monarchs -- Courtiers -- Despots -- Bureaucrats -- Aristocrats -- 5. France and England: absolutism versus parliamentary liberties? Parliaments, estates and parlements -- 1688: the great divide? -- Economic and fiscal policy -- Civil liberties -- 6. A Theory of absolutism? Problems of evidence -- The concept of the state -- Theories of royal sovereignty -- Bodin and absolutist theory -- Two spheres of royal authority -- Absolutist legislative and emergency power? -- Absolutist versus constitutional ideologies? -- Divine right absolutism? -- Conclusions -- 7. Royal prerogatives and their context. Personal monarchy -- Prerogatives and their justification -- The main prerogatives -- Agents of the prerogative -- Prerogative enthroned -- Prerogative dethroned -- Conclusions -- 8. Liberties and consent. Monarchs and despots -- The rituals of consent -- Estates: crushed or co-operating? -- Conflict -- Enlightened despotism -- 9. Life-cycle of a myth. Birth -- Childhood -- Adolescence -- Maturity -- Senility