This collection of essays highlights the horizontal perspective (ruler, all children, siblings, cousins), in asking how the members of a princely family acted as a power network. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process.
This collection of essays highlights the horizontal perspective (ruler, all children, siblings, cousins), in asking how the members of a princely family acted as a power network. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process.
Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University) is Associate Professor of History. She earned her PhD at the University of Amsterdam (2008) with a thesis on the Dutch Revolt. Since then, she has published extensively on the Houses of Nassau and Habsburg, as well as on dynastic identity in the early modern period. Harald Gustafsson (Lund University) is Professor emeritus of History. After defending his thesis at Stockholm University in 1985, Gustafsson has been affiliated to Lund University (professor 1999-2020). His main focus of research is early modern Nordic and European history, including themes as state formation, political culture, and political influence of ordinary people.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Building Dynasties Shaping States: Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe 2. Divine Right of Dynasty. Deposing the God-Given Monarch in Protestant Europe 3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty 4. The Austrian Nephews: The Offspring of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria at the Service of the Spanish King 5. Sixteen Corpses: The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen 6. An Elected Dynasty of Sweden? Blood Charisma and Representative Monarchy 7. Narrowing Dynastic Rule. Models of Governance Social Conflict and the Hobbesian Bargain in Early Modern Sweden (1560-1718) 8. The Nassaus and State Formation in Pre-Modern Germany 9. The Frustrations of Being the Spare: Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society 1560-1780s 10. Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe. A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and three Houses of the Empire 11. Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Claus Christoffersen Lyschander Vitus Bering Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen
1. Building Dynasties Shaping States: Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe 2. Divine Right of Dynasty. Deposing the God-Given Monarch in Protestant Europe 3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty 4. The Austrian Nephews: The Offspring of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria at the Service of the Spanish King 5. Sixteen Corpses: The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen 6. An Elected Dynasty of Sweden? Blood Charisma and Representative Monarchy 7. Narrowing Dynastic Rule. Models of Governance Social Conflict and the Hobbesian Bargain in Early Modern Sweden (1560-1718) 8. The Nassaus and State Formation in Pre-Modern Germany 9. The Frustrations of Being the Spare: Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society 1560-1780s 10. Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe. A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and three Houses of the Empire 11. Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Claus Christoffersen Lyschander Vitus Bering Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen
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