Cesare Cuttica

Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of 'absolutism' and 'monarchism', examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317322238
• Artikelnr.: 43419052

Autorenporträt

Cesare Cuttica, Glenn Burgess

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe,
Cesare Cuttica, Glenn Burgess; Chapter 1a A Culture of Political Counsel:
The Case of Fourteenth-Century England's 'Virtuous' Monarchy vs Royal
Absolutism and Seventeenth-Century Reinterpretations, Janet Coleman;
Chapter 2 Royalist Absolutism in the 1650s: The Case of Robert Sheringham,
Edward Vallance; Chapter 3 Patriarchalism and the Monarchical Republicans,
Gaby Mahlberg; Chapter 4 Cynic Kingship in the German Enlightenment, John
Christian Laursen; Chapter 5 Polizey and Patriotism: Joseph von Sonnenfels
and the Legitimacy of Enlightened Monarchy in the Gaze of
Eighteenth-Century State Sciences, László Kontler; Chapter 6 Absolutism,
Patriotism and Publicity in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century: Jens
Schielderup Sneedorff, Andreas Schytte and Frederik Sneedorff, Henrik
Horstbøll; Chapter 7 Jansenist Jurisdictionalism and Enlightenment: Two
ways of thinking Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Naples, Girolamo
Imbruglia; Chapter 8 Early Modern Absolutism in Practice and Theory, Johann
P. Sommerville; Chapter 9 An Absolutist Trio in the Early 1630s: Sir Robert
Filmer, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Cardin Le Bret and Their Models of
Monarchical Power., Cesare Cuttica; Chapter 10 Tyrants, Absolute Kings,
Arbitrary Rulers and the Commonwealth of England: Some Reflections on
Seventeenth-Century English Political Vocabulary, Glenn Burgess; Chapter 11
'Monstrous' Pufendorf: Sovereignty and System in the Dissertations, Michael
Seidler; Chapter 12 Absolute Chaos, Absolute Order: The Rhetoric of the
State of Nature in the Discourse of Sovereignty, Ioannis D. Evrigenis;
Chapter 13 Bayle on Brutus : A Paradoxical Issue?, Luisa Simonutti; Chapter
14 'More Long-Lasting than Bronze?' Statues, Public Commemoration and
Representations of Monarchy in Diderot's Political Thought, Tim
Hochstrasser;