Monarchy Transformed - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Tables

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Notes on the Contributors

pp x-xii

1 - Introduction: Monarchy Transformed – Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe

pp 1-14

Part I - Dynasties and Monarchies

pp 15-180

2 - Dynasties, Realms, Peoples and State Formation, 1500–1720

pp 17-43

3 - Dynastic Monarchy and the Consolidation of Aristocracy during Europe’s Long Seventeenth Century

pp 44-86

4 - Dynastic Instability, the Emergence of the French Monarchical Commonwealth and the Coming of the Rhetoric of ‘L’état’, 1360s to 1650s

pp 87-126

5 - Setting Limits to Grandeur: Preserving the Spanish Monarchy in an Iron Century

pp 127-163

6 - The New Monarchy in France, the Social Elites and the Society of Princes

pp 164-180

Part II - Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy

pp 181-346

7 - The King and the Family: Primogeniture and the Lombard Nobility in the Spanish Monarchy

pp 183-211

8 - Portugal’s Elites and the Status of the Kingdom of Portugal within the Spanish Monarchy

pp 212-243

9 - In the Service of the Dynasty: Building a Career in the Habsburg Household, 1550–1650

pp 244-266

10 - Revolutionary Absolutism and the Elites of the Danish Monarchy in the Long Seventeenth Century

pp 267-286

11 - The ‘New Monarchy’ as Despotic Beast: The Perspective of the Lesser Nobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s

pp 287-318

12 - The Crisis of Sacral Monarchy in England in the Late Seventeenth Century in Comparative Perspective

pp 319-346

Afterword

pp 347-381

13 - Rethinking the Relations of Elites and Princes in Europe, from the 1590s to the 1720s

pp 349-381

Index

pp 382-394