A major contribution to the study of early modern monarchy A well organised study focusing on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in France and England A new perspective on the sacred role that churches and religion bestowed on monarchs
A major contribution to the study of early modern monarchy A well organised study focusing on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in France and England A new perspective on the sacred role that churches and religion bestowed on monarchs
Ronald G. Asch holds the Chair of Early Modern History at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He graduated from Tübingen University and previously taught in Münster and Osnabrück. He is an expert on sixteenth and seventeenth-century British and European history and has published monographs on the Thirty Years War and the history of the European nobilities in the early modern period as well as on the court of Charles I. His latest publication is Die Stuarts: Geschichte einer Dynastie (Munich, 2011). He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. 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 * Introduction * The French Monarchy in Crisis 1587-1593 * The Resacralization of Kingship in France 1594-1610 * The Early Stuart Monarchy and the Legacy of the Late Elizabethan Age * The Advent of the Divine Right of Kings: The Reign of James VI and I * The Oath of Allegiance Controversy and its Repercussions in England and France * Concluding Remarks Chapter 2. Kingship Transformed - Kingship Destroyed? The French and English Monarchies in the 1630s and 1640s * Introduction * The Personal Rule of Charles I and the New Culture of Power * Religion and Politics in France During the Ascendancy of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1630s * Civil War and Regicide in England * The French Monarchy Between the Death of Louis XIII and the Coronation of Louis XIV 1643-1654 * Concluding Remarks Chapter 3. In the Shadow of Versailles: Stuart Kingship and the French Monarchy 1678-1688 * Introduction * The Changing Nature of the French Monarchy in the 1680s and After * The Conflict between Crown and Church in France and its Repercussions in England in the 1680s * Charles II and the Nature of Sacral Kingship * The Reign of James II * Concluding Remarks Outlook and Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. 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 * Introduction * The French Monarchy in Crisis 1587-1593 * The Resacralization of Kingship in France 1594-1610 * The Early Stuart Monarchy and the Legacy of the Late Elizabethan Age * The Advent of the Divine Right of Kings: The Reign of James VI and I * The Oath of Allegiance Controversy and its Repercussions in England and France * Concluding Remarks Chapter 2. Kingship Transformed - Kingship Destroyed? The French and English Monarchies in the 1630s and 1640s * Introduction * The Personal Rule of Charles I and the New Culture of Power * Religion and Politics in France During the Ascendancy of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1630s * Civil War and Regicide in England * The French Monarchy Between the Death of Louis XIII and the Coronation of Louis XIV 1643-1654 * Concluding Remarks Chapter 3. In the Shadow of Versailles: Stuart Kingship and the French Monarchy 1678-1688 * Introduction * The Changing Nature of the French Monarchy in the 1680s and After * The Conflict between Crown and Church in France and its Repercussions in England in the 1680s * Charles II and the Nature of Sacral Kingship * The Reign of James II * Concluding Remarks Outlook and Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
