Part I. Justus Lipsius and the Netherlands movement: 1. Constantin in publicis malis
2. The political intent in Neostoic philosophy
3. The main political work of Lipsius
4. Political Neostoicism
5. The military renascence
6. The European echo
7. The Netherlands movement in Brandenburg-Prussia
Part II. The Constitutional Development of the Early Modern State: 8. The religious covenant and the social contract
9. 'Police' and Prudentia civilis in the seventeenth century
10 From contractual monarchy to constitutionalism
11. The estates of Germany and the formation of the state
12. The constitutional situation of monarchy in Germany from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
13. Army organization in the German territories from 1500 to 1800
14. The constitution of the Holy Roman Empire and the European state system 1648-1789
15. The structure of the absolute state.
