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Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe, Hardcover by Geevers, L...
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- Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe, Hardcover by Geevers, Liesbeth (EDT); Gustafsson, Harald (EDT), ISBN 9463728759, ISBN-13 9789463728751, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
1. The work unites dynastic history and state formation history, by bringing together scholars from both fields. 2. The work offers a new interpretation of dynasties as social groups and power networks. Its chapters depart from established views on monarchs as isolated power wielders or as part of a historical community of forebears, and instead places them in their social context of relatives. 3. The work develops a novel analytical framework based on the concepts of dynasty formation and dynastic centralization to allow for an analysis of the relationship between the internal dynamics of ruling families and the development of states. In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling houses have been overlooked in studies about state formation. What’s more, when discussing such dynasties, the vertical chronological perspective (grandfather-father-son) is all dominating, for instance in the focus on dynastic continuity, dynastic culture and representation, and the like. 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 volume brings together existing knowledge of the topic with the aim of exchanging insights and furthering knowledge.
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