• Introduction
• Gridding Europe's navel : Conrad Celtis's Quatuor libri amorum secundum quatuor latera Germanie
• A border studies manifesto : Maciej Miechowita's Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis
• The alpha and the alif : continental ambivalence in Geoffroy Tory's Champ fleury
• Syphilitic borders and continents in flux : Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilis sive morbus gallicus
• Cartographic curses: Europe and the Ptolemaic poetics of Os Lusíadas (1572)
• Conclusion

What is "Europe, " and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term "Europe" circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe's boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent's formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.
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• INTRODUCTION *
• CHAPTER I. THE FORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN STATE SYSTEM *
• Warfare and State Formation: From the Age of Invasions to the Eighteenth Century *
• The State Made War but War did not Make the State *
• War within the Family - Politics and Diplomacy *
• Norms and Interests *
• Conclusion *
• CHAPTER II. THE FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN MONARCHY *
• What was a State? *
• The Basic Features of European Society *
• King and Aristocracy *
• The Formation of Dynasties *
• War and the State *
• The Finances *
• Towards a Monopoly of Violence: The Royal Courts of Law *
• The Central Administration *
• From Ugly Toes to the King's Napkin *
• The Formation of the Sovereign State *
• King, Nobility and People, and the Idea of the Nation *
• The State and the People: the Peasant Rebellions *
• Conclusion *
• CHAPTER III. THE STATE AND ITS COMPETITORS *
• The Church and the Papal Monarchy *
• States without a King: Principalities and City Republics *
• The Medieval Foundations of the European State *
• Conclusion *
• CHAPTER IV. THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES *
• The Renaissance *
• The Reformation *
• Reformation and State Formation *
• The Great Discoveries and the Development of European Trade *
• Why did Europe Conquer the World? *
• Conclusion *
• CHAPTER V. ABSOLUTISM AND CONSTITUTIONALISM *
• Capital Versus Coercion - England, The Dutch Republic and France *
• The Dutch Republic *
• Coercion and Capital *
• Towards Absolute Monarchy in France *
• The Development of Constitutional Government in England *
• The Difference between France and England *
• The Spanish Kingdoms *
• Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Agrarian States - the Case of Scandinavia *
• Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Agrarian States: Prussia, Austria and East Central Europe *
• Conclusion: Absolutism and Constitutionalism: Advantages and Disadvantages *
• CHAPTER VI. THE STATE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT *
• Enlightened Despotism and Parliamentary Government *
• The Development of a Modern Bureaucracy *
• Conclusion *
• CONCLUSION: THE STATE OF THE OLD REGIME AND ITS LEGACY *
• REFERENCES *.
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State Formation in Europe, 843-1789 follows the formation and development of the European state from the division of the Carolingian Empire to the French Revolution. The book's primary focus is on Europe's patterns of internal and external development in comparison to political organization in other parts of the world. By analysing Europe as a single unit, rather than dividing it into nation states, it reveals the broader historical connections within the Continent. Bagge takes the reader through a discussion of how kingdoms evolved into states, introducing the influence of the Church and the town on these state structures. The relationship between state, Church and town is traced to explain how these different power struggles played out and why the territorial state became the dominate form of organization. Finally, the book clarifies why Europe developed in this way and the global consequences of this development. By observing Europe through the perspective of the rest of the world, readers gain insight into trends common to the whole Continent while crossing the traditional border between the Middle Ages and early modern period. This book is essential reading for students studying medieval and early modern political history, state formation and Europe in a global context.
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Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and far-reaching connections and cultural interactions between Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a major impact on intellectual life in Britain. The aim of this book is to illustrate the continuity and the variety of these exchanges during the period. Each chapter focuses on a specific area (book collection, historiography, banking, commerce, literary production), highlighting the significance of the productive interchange of people and ideas across diverse cultural communities; it is the lived experience of individuals, substantiated by written evidence, that shapes the book's collective understanding of how two European cultures interacted with each other so fruitfully. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature at the University of York; Helen Fulton is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. Contributors: Helen Bradley, Margaret Bridges, Michele Campopiano, Carolyn Collette, Victoria Flood, Helen Fulton, Bart Lambert, Ignazio del Punta.
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• Vorwort
• Heinz Duchhardt zum Abschied aus dem Amt des Direktors des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte / Winfried Schulze
• Innerer Friede, innere Ordnung
• Kollektive Sicherheit und föderative Ordnung : die Eidgenossenschaft und die Niederlande in der Frühen Neuzeit / Horst Carl
• Konsens und Konflikt : Konfliktkulturen und politische Kommunikation in der Frühen Neuzeit : die Entscheidungsstrukturen bei der Verlegung des hansischen Kontors von Brügge nach Antwerpen / Johannes Ludwig Schipmann
• Konfessionelle Friedstände auf den Reichstagen Karls V / Eike Wolgast
• "... das Recht haben, bei Religion, Glauben, Kirchengebräuchen in Frieden zu bleiben" : Religionsfrieden in der Frühen Neuzeit / Irene Dingel
• Konfliktlösung in Krisenzeiten : der Frankfurter Fettmilchaufstand 1612-1614 und die kaiserliche Kommission / Matthias Schnettger
• Warum ist das Reich nicht untergegangen? : der Krieg der Kriege und die Resilienz der politischen Institutionen / Johannes Burkhardt
• Krieg und Frieden im frühneuzeitlichen Europa
• Verhandeln in der Ferne : Kardinal Harrach beobachtet die Entstehung des Westfälischen Friedens / Katrin Keller
• Der Friede von Oliva (1660) im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Medaillen / Michael North
• Instruktion und Propositionen der kaiserlichen Gesandten bei den Nijmegener Friedensverhandlungen / Leopold Auer
• Pax Austriaca auf dem Balkan : das Gutachten Graf Jörgers über die kaiserlichen Kriegs- und Friedensziele in Südosteuropa (1689) / Ivan Parvev
• Krieg und Frieden im Denken Maria Theresias / Bettina Braun
• Guerre et nation à l'époque moderne après 1648 : l'exemple de la France / Lucien Bély
• "Zähmung der Bellona" oder Ökonomie der Gewalt? : Überlegungen zur Kultur des Krieges im Anden régime / Martin Wrede
• Europa- und Friedensvorstellungen im Werk des Kieler Kulturhistorikers Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch (1740-1812) / Martin Espenhorst
• Die Abwesenheit von Krieg : Polnisch-russische Friedensund Grenzverträge der Neuzeit (16.-20. Jahrhundert) / Jan Kusber, Julia Röttjer
• Krieg und Frieden im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts
• Friedensinitiativen französischer Freimaurer in der Zwischenkriegszeit / Wolfgang Schmale
• Eine verlorene Kunst? : Friedensschlüsse und Friedlosigkeit im 20. Jahrhundert / Hans-Ulrich Thamer
• Anstelle eines Nachworts : Fünf Beobachtungen zum Duchhardtʼschen Vorwort / Martin Wrede
• Register
• Personenregister
• Ortsregister
• Tabula Gratulatoria.

• Les défaites à la Renaissance ou l'impossible traumatisme
• I Figures de vaincus
• Vercingétorix à la Renaissance : un modèle pour les rois de France ?
• "Beau visage, miroir de fol". L'iconographie de la chute amoureuse à la Renaissance
• La défaite de l'humanisme chrétien : étude de la trajectoire d'Erasme au temps des Réformes
• La rhétorique de la défaite dans l'épître d'exil de Thomas Becon
• Défaites au temps des guerres d'Italie
• "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit : les Aragon de Naples et leur mémoire en Europe
• Portraits des vaincus dans la poésie néo-latine au temps des premières guerres d'Italie (1494-1512)
• Une défaite qui concurrence une victoire : Agnadel, 1509
• Mohàcs, 1526 : les coulisses d'une défaite décisive dans les ouvrages historiques de trois hommes d'Etat hongrois des XVIe et XVIIe siècles
• Iii Défaites au temps des guerres de religion
• La "défaite" de Catherine de Médicis au colloque de Poissy
• Les défaites du protestantisme international
• Le gouvernement des derniers Valois face à la défaite. L'élaboration d'un discours diplomatique de justification, 1562-1589
• Des "soldats chrétiens" face à la défaite : la perception ligueuse de la bataille d'Ivry.

"On connaît la vision des vaincus des Amérindiens partagée entre messianisme inhibiteur et messianisme de résistance. Mais on sait peu comment les Européens de la Renaissance, amateurs de gloire, ressentent à l'heure de l'imprimé naissant, leurs défaites humiliantes et meurtrières. Certes l'esprit chevaleresque valorise le "gloire au vaincu", tant qu'il n'est ni lâche, ni rebelle, ni hérétique. Mais l'échec n'en affecte pas moins la réputation d'un chef, d'une religion ou d'une nation. Pour autant, les perdants sont-ils traumatisés au point de vouloir se convertir à la culture du vainqueur comme le firent la France après Sedan, l'Allemagne et le Japon après 1945 ? Ce livre trace le portrait de quelques vaincus et présente des défaites militaire, diplomatique et religieuse survenues au XVIe siècle qui sont interprétées à l'aune de l'espérance et de l'apocalyptique chrétiennes, de la conscience religieuse d'une épreuve salutaire, de la culture du martyre, de la réhabilitation de la fortune, du stoïcisme tandis que l'absence d'armée nationale permet de conclure que la Renaissance européenne est étrangère à notre culture traumatisante de la défaite."--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations & Tables
• Introduction Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts
• I. Articulating Access Florence Berland Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris Neil Murphy The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570 Audrey Truschke Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court
• II. Regulating Access Michael Talbot Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court Mark Hengerer Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics?
• III. Monopolizing Access Jonathan Spangler Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court Ronald G. Asch Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited Fabian Persson The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority
• IV. Visualizing Access Christina Antenhofer Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth - Sixteenth Centuries) Steven Thiry Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505) Bibliography Index.
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Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of `access to the ruler' has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which `access' was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world. Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.
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• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations & Tables
• Introduction Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts
• I. Articulating Access Florence Berland Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris Neil Murphy The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570 Audrey Truschke Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court
• II. Regulating Access Michael Talbot Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court Mark Hengerer Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics?
• III. Monopolizing Access Jonathan Spangler Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court Ronald G. Asch Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited Fabian Persson The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority
• IV. Visualizing Access Christina Antenhofer Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth - Sixteenth Centuries) Steven Thiry Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505) Bibliography Index.
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Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of `access to the ruler' has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which `access' was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world. Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.
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• List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis PART I: SOURCES 1 State Papers and related collections Natalie Mears
• 2 Legal and Judicial Sources Henry French 3 Ecclesiastical Sources Jonathan Willis 4 Print Ian Green 5 Literary Sources Ceri Sullivan 6 Personal Documents Laura Sangha
• 7 Visual and Material Culture Tara Hamling PART II: HISTORIES 8 Gender Merry Wiesner-Hanks 9 Religion and Religious Change Alec Ryrie 10 Political Cultures Janet Dickinson 11 Popular Culture Mark Hailwood 12 Economic Life Brodie Waddell 13 Warfare Neil Younger 14 Early Modern Science Helen Cowie 15 The Wider World Margaret Small Index.
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Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book introduces students to the sources that survived to become indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, 'Sources', takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material, including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each chapter addresses how different types of material were produced, whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II, 'Histories', takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this section explores the sources that are used to address major early modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student embarking on their studies of the early modern period.
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• "Europe" et "turcs", les conceptions humanistes
• L'"Europe" dans l'esprit humaniste
• L'"Europe", une idée de croisade dans un contexte tendu
• L'"Europe" et les Autres, une confrontation inévitable ?
• Une valeur transcendante, la libertas Italiae
• Giovio, les Turcs et l'humanisme
• La place des Turcs dans l'oeuvre de Giovio, expert de la question turque
• Sources de Giovio sur les Turcs
• Une nouvelle image du Turc, occidentalisée ou orientée ?
• Démarche humaniste de Giovio à propos des Turcs
• Europe et Turcs : Rhodes (1522), illustration d'une époque
• Enjeux autour de l'île de Rhodes
• Les faits de 1522 d'après l'oeuvre de Giovio
• Choix révélateurs de Giovio dans ses sources sur Rhodes
• Défendre l'Europe ?
• Projets de croisade de Giovio
• Divers aspects de la croisade à prendre en considération
• Réflexions sur la nature de la campagne à mener
• Des renseignements concrets sur les adversaires turcs
• Une campagne effective, la Préveza (1538)
• Les événements préparatoires de cette tentative de "croisade"
• Reconstitution du déroulement de la campagne
• La Préveza, un outil pour Giovio ?
• Le vrai visage des protagonistes
• Tout pour servir la cause anti-turque
• Un expert au service d'une "noble cause"
• Haranguer à distance en adaptant son discours
• La plume au service de l'épée
• Les défenseurs de l'Europe selon Giovio
• L'empereur, champion naturel de la République chrétienne ?
• Dépêches sur l'entreprise impériale de Tunis de 1535
• La virtuosité de Giovio au service de la croisade
• La croisade : une destinée impériale
• Le royaume de France et la Sublime Porte
• La croisade, une tradition française ?
• République chrétienne et amitié franco-turque
• Les moyens du royaume de France illustrés par l'affaire Rincone (1541)
• Venise, l'atout décisif
• Paolo Giovio et Messer San Marco
• Influence de Venise sur l'oeuvre de Giovio
• Messer San Marco porte-drapeau de la croisade ou porte-parole des Turcs ?

"L'humaniste Paolo Giovio incarne la pensée du milieu intellectuel moderne sur les Turcs et l'Europe sans jamais entrer dans des controverses religieuses. Il remplit son rôle de conseiller en conduisant son public à se forger sa propre opinion. Sa vaste culture humaniste allie une connaissance parfaite de l'histoire, des sciences et des arts à une remarquable maîtrise de l'art rhétorique. L'oeuvre de Giovio traduit le sentiment de son milieu vis-à-vis de la question turque dans un contexte rendu difficile par les offensives de l'Empire ottoman et les guerres fratricides entre chrétiens. Son oeuvre abondante et amplement documentée offre une information très précise sur les Turcs. La présentation par Giovio d'événements notables visant à alerter ses contemporains et les renseigner sur leurs adversaires permet non seulement de mieux connaître les Ottomans mais également de pénétrer dans la mentalité de son temps et d'apprécier comment l'idée d'une Europe contrainte de se défendre contre ses ennemis a pu se constituer alors, jetant les bases de celle d'aujourd'hui, héritière des conceptions humanistes."--P. [4] of cover.

• Acknowledgements--
• 1. Introduction--
• 2. A Gallican forerunner--
• 3. Concepts--
• 4. Polygyny--
• 5. Emotional persuasion in a public sphere: Nicholas I and Lothar--
• 6. Canon law subverts itself--
• 7. Due process--
• 8. Biological kinship--
• 9. Spiritual kinship--
• 10. Impotence and magic--
• 11. Pre-puberty marriage--
• 12. Physical impotence--
• 13. Adult non-consummation and pre-contract--
• 14. Henry VIII's biblical bid--
• 15. Reception of dispensation: plaisance and Henri IV--
• 16. Diverging trends: annulments and dispensations--
• 17. Annulments and dispensations: two theological rationalities--
• 18. Dispensations and their diplomatic--
• 19. Ten theses and an argument-- Documents-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This analysis of royal marriage cases across seven centuries explains how and how far popes controlled royal entry into and exits from their marriages. In the period between c.860 and 1600, the personal lives of kings became the business of the papacy. d'Avray explores the rationale for papal involvement in royal marriages and uses them to analyse the structure of church-state relations. The marital problems of the Carolingian Lothar II, of English kings - John, Henry III, and Henry VIII - and other monarchs, especially Spanish and French, up to Henri IV of France and La Reine Margot, have their place in this exploration of how canon law came to constrain pragmatic political manoeuvring within a system increasingly rationalised from the mid-thirteenth century on. Using documents presented in the author's Dissolving Royal Marriages, the argument brings out hidden connections between legal formality, annulments, and dispensations, at the highest social level.
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• Introduction / Jeroen Duindam
• Part 1. Agents
• The imperial viceroy : reflections on an historical type / Jürgen Osterhammel
• Devolution from the centre to the periphery : an overview of Ottoman provincial administration / İ. Metin Kunt
• Broken passage to the summit : Nayancheng's botched mission in the White Lotus War / Yingcong Dai
• Routine promotions : Li Hu and the dusty byways of empire / R. Kent Guy
• Ceremonial demarcations : the viceregal court as space of political communication in the Spanish monarchy (Valencia, Naples, and Mexico, 1621-1635) / Christian Büschges
• The Ambans of Tibet-imperial rule at the Inner Asian periphery / Sabine Dabringhaus
• Part 2. Interactions
• Remonstrating against royal extravagance in imperial China / Patricia Ebrey
• "True and historical descriptions"? : European festivals and the printed record / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
• Ceremonial entries and the confirmation of urban privileges in France, c. 1350-1550 / Neil Murphy
• 'Willingly we follow a gentle leader ... ' : joyous entries into Antwerp / Margit Thofner
• Historical narratives of the Kangxi emperor's inaugural visit to Suzhou, 1684 / Michael G. Chang
• Towards a comparative understanding of rulership : discourses, practices, patterns / Jeroen Duindam.

The dynastic centre and the provinces were linked by agents and ritual occasions. This book includes contributions by specialists examining these connections in late imperial China, early modern Europe, and the Ottoman empire, suggesting important revisions and an agenda for comparison. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.
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• Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Gender and sexuality in early modern England; How has gender been defined?; Gender and the body; Complicating the picture: men, class and sexuality; 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and early modern period; Introduction; Gender, marriage and social advancement; Gender as a feature of economic life; Violence against women: how to decode the gender factor?

• Gender-based discourse and practice: public morality and the preservation of ethical normsImagining gender: femininity and masculinity in visual arts and fiction; Conclusions: early emancipation and discrimination in the Low Countries; 3 'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner; 4 The importance of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family: The Martinengo of Brescia; Introduction; Names for a surname; Genealogical chart; Saints and godfathers, the deceased.

• Prestige and heritage: Choices which countThe right name for the right heir; The defence of the rule; Conclusion; 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d'Angoulême; 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power; 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effeminacy and manliness at the Jacobean court; Marriage; Scotland; England; Gender confusion; 8 Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesús, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent; 9 Allarme to England!: Gender and militarism in early modern England.

• 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peaceMaking war and playing politics
• women's work?; 1562-98: Civil war, religion and magnate power; The Guise women and the family network of power; The Guise women and war; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.
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• Einleitung : Herrschaft und Verwaltung in der Frühen Neuzeit / Stefan Brakensiek
• Die niederösterreichischen Kreisämter als Scharnier zwischen Landesregierung und Untertanen : Kommunikationsprozesse und Herrschaftspraxis / Corinna von Bredow
• Dreieckskommunikation in der polnisch-litauischen Adelsrepublik : vier Thesen und ein Quellenbeispiel / Peter Collmer
• Verteidiger des Glaubens und Verteidiger von Interessen. Herrschaftssicherung durch Kirchen- und Konfessionspolitik am Beispiel Karls VI. in den Südlichen Niederlanden / Simon Karstens
• Supplikationen als Mittel zur Herrschaftsvermittlung in den Österreichischen Niederlanden im 18. Jahrhundert? / Hanna Sonkajärvi
• Herrschaft durch Kommunikation im napoleonischen Empire : Eingabepraktiken im Großherzogtum Berg / Bettina Severin-Barboutie
• Zur Akzeptanz fürstlicher Herrschaft vor Ort. Landesherrliche Visitation und diskursive Praxis lokaler Akteure (Hessen-Kassel, 17. Jahrhundert) / Nicolás Brochhagen
• Produktion von Normativität in der Praxis : das landesherrliche Visitationsverfahren im frühneuzeitlichen Bayern aus kulturhistorischer Sicht / Birgit Näther
• Die gute Schreibart in Geschäften : Normen und Praxis der Verwaltungssprache ca. 1750-1840 / Klaus Margreiter
• Verwaltungskulturen im Kirchenstaat? : Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Verwaltung / Birgit Emich
• Verwaltungsgeschichte nach Cultural und Communicative Turn : Perspektiven einer historischen Implementationsforschung / Stefan Haas
• Schlusskommentar / Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger.

• Acknowledgments ix Illustrations xi Abbreviations xii Permissions xiv Changes and Revisions xvi Manuscript Sigla xviii Introduction: A Program of Research
• 1
• PART 1 - Holding On: William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266-1330)
• 107
• 1 The Manuscripts and Editions of William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi-Revised 109
• 2 A New View of William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi 152
• 3 Research on William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi: A Critical Review 193
• 4 Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet: The Words and the Meaning 222
• 5 At the Crossroads of Law and Politics: William Durant the Younger's `Treatise' on Councils 258
• 6 The Reception of William Durant the Younger's Treatises in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times 270
• 7 William Durant the Younger and Conciliar Theory 294
• PART 2 - Moving On: Hermann Conring (1606-81) 313
• 8 Conring on History 315
• 9 From Helmstedt via Mainz to Paris: Hermann Conring and Hugues de Lionne 339
• 10 A Question of Right: Hermann Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor 350
• 11 Hermann Conring and the Republic of Letters 374
• 12 Author and Authenticity in Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor: A Seventeenth-Century Case Study 385
• 13 Political Unity and Religious Diversity: Hermann Conring's Confessional Writings and the Preface to Aristotle's Politics of 1637 416
• 14 Hermann Conring and the European History of Law 445
• PART 3 - Come and Gone: Past Sense
• 465
• 15 Visions of Order in the Canonists and Civilians 467
• 16 Sovereignty and Heresy 493
• 17 Empire the Modern Way 503
• 18 The Limits of History in Brief 512
• 19 Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance 525
• 20 Hegel's Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages 546 Works Cited 597 Index 659.
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The twenty studies collected in this volume focus on the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world. The method leads from technical investigations on William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266-1330) and Hermann Conring (1606-1681) through reflection on the nature of historical knowledge to a break with historicism, an affirmation of anachronism, and a broad perspective on the history of Europe. The introduction explains when and why these studies were written, and places them in the context of contemporary historical thinking by drawing on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. This book will appeal to historians with an interest in historical theory, historians of late medieval and early modern Europe, and students looking for the meaning of history.
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• Acknowledgments ix Illustrations xi Abbreviations xii Permissions xiv Changes and Revisions xvi Manuscript Sigla xviii Introduction: A Program of Research
• 1
• PART 1 - Holding On: William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266-1330)
• 107
• 1 The Manuscripts and Editions of William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi-Revised 109
• 2 A New View of William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi 152
• 3 Research on William Durant the Younger's Tractatus de modo generalis concilii celebrandi: A Critical Review 193
• 4 Quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbari debet: The Words and the Meaning 222
• 5 At the Crossroads of Law and Politics: William Durant the Younger's `Treatise' on Councils 258
• 6 The Reception of William Durant the Younger's Treatises in Late Medieval and Early Modern Times 270
• 7 William Durant the Younger and Conciliar Theory 294
• PART 2 - Moving On: Hermann Conring (1606-81) 313
• 8 Conring on History 315
• 9 From Helmstedt via Mainz to Paris: Hermann Conring and Hugues de Lionne 339
• 10 A Question of Right: Hermann Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor 350
• 11 Hermann Conring and the Republic of Letters 374
• 12 Author and Authenticity in Conring's New Discourse on the Roman-German Emperor: A Seventeenth-Century Case Study 385
• 13 Political Unity and Religious Diversity: Hermann Conring's Confessional Writings and the Preface to Aristotle's Politics of 1637 416
• 14 Hermann Conring and the European History of Law 445
• PART 3 - Come and Gone: Past Sense
• 465
• 15 Visions of Order in the Canonists and Civilians 467
• 16 Sovereignty and Heresy 493
• 17 Empire the Modern Way 503
• 18 The Limits of History in Brief 512
• 19 Religious Authority and Ecclesiastical Governance 525
• 20 Hegel's Ghost: Europe, the Reformation, and the Middle Ages 546 Works Cited 597 Index 659.
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The twenty studies collected in this volume focus on the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern world. The method leads from technical investigations on William Durant the Younger (ca. 1266-1330) and Hermann Conring (1606-1681) through reflection on the nature of historical knowledge to a break with historicism, an affirmation of anachronism, and a broad perspective on the history of Europe. The introduction explains when and why these studies were written, and places them in the context of contemporary historical thinking by drawing on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. This book will appeal to historians with an interest in historical theory, historians of late medieval and early modern Europe, and students looking for the meaning of history.
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• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of illustrations, List of contributors Introduction Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben
• PART 1. TUDOR ENGLAND 1.`Petticoats and Politics: Elisabeth Parr and Female Agency at the Early Elizabethan Court' Helen Graham-Matheson 2.`Jane Dormer's Recipe for Politics: A Refuge Household in Spain for Mary Tudor's Ladies-in-waiting' Hannah Leah Crumme
• PART 2. HABSBURGS I. THE IMPERIAL COURT IN VIENNA 3.`Ladies-in-waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to
• 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns' Katrin Keller 4.`"In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria' Vanessa de Cruz
• II. THE COURT IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS 5.`Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella's Camareras Mayores (1598-1633)' Birgit Houben & Dries Raeymaekers 6.`Dwarfs - and a Loca - as Ladies' Maids at the Spanish Habsburg Courts' Janet Ravenscroft
• PART 3. FRANCE 7.` "A Stable of Whores"?: The "Flying Squadron" of Catherine de Medici' Una McIlvenna 8.`In Search of the Ladies-in-Waiting and Maids of Honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Prosoprographical Analysis of the Female Household' Rosalind K. Marshall 9.`Clients and Friends: The Ladies-in-waiting at the Court of Anne of Austria (1615-66)' Oliver Mallick
• PART 4. THE STUART COURTS 10.`Perceptions of Influence: The Catholic Diplomacy of Queen Anna and Her Ladies, 1601-4' Cynthia Fry 11.`The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford' Nadine Akkerman 12.`The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-40' Sara J. Wolfson
• PART 5. THE SWEDISH COURT 13.`Living in the House of Power: Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court' Fabian Persson Epilogue `The Politics of Female Households: Afterthoughts' Jeroen Duindam Bibliography Index of Names.
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The Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which `women above stairs' shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence-gathering and espionage. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of female agency, this collection demonstrates clearly that the political climate of Europe was often shaped outside the male-dominated institutions of government and administration. Contributors include: Helen Graham-Matheson, Hannah Leah Crumme, Katrin Keller, Vanessa de Cruz, Birgit Houben, Dries Raeymaekers, Janet Ravenscroft, Una McIlvenna, Rosalind K. Marshall, Oliver Mallick, Cynthia Fry, Nadine Akkerman, Sara J. Wolfson, Fabian Persson, and Jeroen Duindam.
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• Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of illustrations, List of contributors Introduction Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben
• PART 1. TUDOR ENGLAND 1.`Petticoats and Politics: Elisabeth Parr and Female Agency at the Early Elizabethan Court' Helen Graham-Matheson 2.`Jane Dormer's Recipe for Politics: A Refuge Household in Spain for Mary Tudor's Ladies-in-waiting' Hannah Leah Crumme
• PART 2. HABSBURGS I. THE IMPERIAL COURT IN VIENNA 3.`Ladies-in-waiting at the Imperial Court of Vienna from 1550 to
• 1700: Structures, Responsibilities and Career Patterns' Katrin Keller 4.`"In service to my Lady, the Empress, as I have done every other day of my life": Margarita of Cardona, Baroness of Dietrichstein and Lady-in-waiting of Maria of Austria' Vanessa de Cruz
• II. THE COURT IN THE SPANISH NETHERLANDS 5.`Women and the Politics of Access at the Court of Brussels: The Infanta Isabella's Camareras Mayores (1598-1633)' Birgit Houben & Dries Raeymaekers 6.`Dwarfs - and a Loca - as Ladies' Maids at the Spanish Habsburg Courts' Janet Ravenscroft
• PART 3. FRANCE 7.` "A Stable of Whores"?: The "Flying Squadron" of Catherine de Medici' Una McIlvenna 8.`In Search of the Ladies-in-Waiting and Maids of Honour of Mary, Queen of Scots: A Prosoprographical Analysis of the Female Household' Rosalind K. Marshall 9.`Clients and Friends: The Ladies-in-waiting at the Court of Anne of Austria (1615-66)' Oliver Mallick
• PART 4. THE STUART COURTS 10.`Perceptions of Influence: The Catholic Diplomacy of Queen Anna and Her Ladies, 1601-4' Cynthia Fry 11.`The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford' Nadine Akkerman 12.`The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria: Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-40' Sara J. Wolfson
• PART 5. THE SWEDISH COURT 13.`Living in the House of Power: Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court' Fabian Persson Epilogue `The Politics of Female Households: Afterthoughts' Jeroen Duindam Bibliography Index of Names.
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The Politics of Female Households is the first collection that seeks to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of early modern court studies. Presenting evidence and analysis of the multifarious ways in which `women above stairs' shaped the European courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it argues for a re-assessment of their political influence. The cultural agency of ladies-in-waiting is viewed in the reflection of portraiture, pamphlets and masques: their political dealings and patronage are revealed through analysis of letters, family networks, career patterns, gift exchange and household structures, as well as their activities in the fields of intelligence-gathering and espionage. By concentrating on a previously neglected area of female agency, this collection demonstrates clearly that the political climate of Europe was often shaped outside the male-dominated institutions of government and administration. Contributors include: Helen Graham-Matheson, Hannah Leah Crumme, Katrin Keller, Vanessa de Cruz, Birgit Houben, Dries Raeymaekers, Janet Ravenscroft, Una McIlvenna, Rosalind K. Marshall, Oliver Mallick, Cynthia Fry, Nadine Akkerman, Sara J. Wolfson, Fabian Persson, and Jeroen Duindam.
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• Acknowledgements...vii List of Tables and Figures...viii Notes on Contributors...ix Introduction...1 Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New Directions Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein 't Hart and Griet Vermeesch
• Part 1: The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism...13
• 1 Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349-1350...15 William Caferro
• 2 Military Entrepreneurs in the Crown of Aragon during the Castilian-Aragonese War, 1356-1375...32 Jeff Fynn-Paul
• Part 2: Early Modern Evolution: Varieties of Entrepreneurial Freedom...61
• 3 The Military Enterpriser in the Thirty Years' War...63 David Parrott
• 4 Public Service and Private Profijit: British Fiscal-Military Entrepreneurship Overseas, 1707-1712...87 Aaron Graham
• 5 Entrepreneurs and the Recruitment of the British Army in the War of American Independence, 1775-1783...111 Stephen Conway
• 6 Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century...131 Helen Julia Paul
• 7 Accounting for Power: Bookkeeping and the Rationalization of Dutch Naval Administration...151 Pepijn Brandon
• 8 The Prince as Military Entrepreneur? Why Smaller Saxon Territories Sent `Hollandische Regimenter' (Dutch Regiments) to the Dutch Republic...170 Andrea Thiele
• 9 The Grip of the State? Government Control over Provision of the Army in the Austrian Netherlands, 1725-1744...193 Thomas Goossens
• Part 3: Early Modern Evolution: Controlling and Circumventing the Entrepreneur...213
• 10 Agency Government in Louis XIV's France: The Military Treasurers of the Elite Forces...215 Guy Rowlands
• 11 Centralized Funding of the Army in Spain: The Garrison Factoria in the Seventeenth Century...235 Carlos Alvarez-Nogal
• 12 In the Shadow of Power: Monopolist Entrepreneurs, the State and Spanish Military Victualling in the Eighteenth Century...260 Rafael Torres Sanchez
• Part 4: Ottoman Perspectives...285
• 13 Rewarding Success in Military Enterprise: Forms Used for the Incentivizing of Commanders and their Troops in the Ottoman Military System of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries...287 Rhoads Murphey
• 14 The Evolution of Ottoman Military Logistical Systems in the Later Eighteenth Century: The Rise of A New Class of Military Entrepreneur...307 Kahraman Sakul Bibliography...329 Index...353.
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In War, Entrepreneurs, and the State, Jeff Fynn-Paul (Leiden) assembles an internationally acclaimed selection of authors to push forward the debate on the role of entrepreneurs in making war and building states in Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Topics covered include logistics, supply, recruitment, and the finance of war. Chapters have been carefully commissioned with an eye towards complementarity. In an introduction co-written with Marjolein `t Hart and Griet Vermeesch, Fynn-Paul challenges existing discourses of military entrepreneurialism. A new benchmark is proposed: did states choose to work with entrepreneurs, or to restrict their activities and subvert the market? From the introduction and the individual chapters, a new more expansive vision of the military entrepreneur emerges. Contributors are: Carlos Alvarez-Nogal, Pepijn Brandon, William Caferro, Stephen Conway, Thomas Goossens, Aaron Graham, Rhoads Murphey, David Parrott, Helen Paul, Guy Rowlands, Kahraman Sakul, Marjolein 't Hart, Andrea Thiele, and Rafael Torres Sanchez.
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• Introduction--
• 1. Europe in the world of 1450--
• 2. Individuals in society, 1450-1600--
• 3. Politics and power, 1450-1600--
• 4. Cultural and intellectual life, 1450-1600--
• 5. Religious reform and consolidation, 1450-1600--
• 6. Economics and technology, 1450-1600--
• 7. Europe in the world, 1450-1600--
• 8. Individuals in society, 1600-1789--
• 9. Politics and power, 1600-1789--
• 10. Cultural and intellectual life, 1600-1789--
• 11. Religious consolidation and renewal, 1600-1789--
• 12. Economics and technology, 1600-1789--
• 13. Europe in the world, 1600-1789.
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The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skilfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious and cultural history of the period.
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• A war mosaic
• Soldiers : plebeians and nobles
• Sacking cities
• Weapons and princes
• Siege
• Armies : ambulant cities, dying cities
• Plunder
• Hell in the villages
• Killing for god
• The state : emerging Leviathan.

• Introduction : on the early modernity of modern memory / Judith Pollmann and Erika Kuijpers
• Memory politics and memory wars
• The usable past in the Lemberg Armenian community's struggle for equal rights, 1578-1654 / Alexandr Osipian
• A contested past : memory wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609-21) / Jasper van der Steen
• 'You will see who they are that revile, and lessen your -- glorious deliverance' : the 'memory war' about the 'glorious revolution' / Ulrich Niggemann
• Civic and confessional memory in conflict : Augsburg in the sixteenth century / Sean F. Dunwoody
• Tales of a peasant revolt : taboos and memories of 1514 in Hungary / Gabriella Erdélyi
• Shaping the memory of the French wars of religion : the first centuries / Philip Benedict
• Mediality
• Celebrating a Trojan horse : memories of the Dutch revolt in Breda, 1590-1650 / Marianne Eekhout
• "The odious demon from across the sea" : Oliver Cromwell, memory and the dislocations of Ireland / Sarah Covington
• Material memories of the guildsmen : crafting identities in early modern London / Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
• Between storytelling and patriotic scripture : the memory brokers of the Dutch Revolt / Erika Kuijpers
• Lost in time and space? : Glocal memoryscapes in the early modern world / Dagmar Freist
• The spaces of memory and their transmediations : on the lives of exotic images and their material evocations / Benjamin Schmidt
• Personal memory
• Disturbing memories : narrating experiences and emotions of distressing events in the French wars of religion / Susan Broomhall
• Remembering fear : the fear of violence and the violence of fear in seventeenth-century war memories / Andreas Bähr
• Permeable memories : family history and the diaspora of southern Netherlandish exiles in the seventeenth century / Johannes Müller
• Women, memory and family history in seventeenth-century England / Katharine Hodgkin
• The experience of rupture and the history of memory / Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollmann
• Index.

Many students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case studies in this volume highlight the extent to which early modern memory was already a multimedia affair, with many political uses, and affecting stakeholders at all levels of society. Contributors include: Andreas Bahr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdelyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Muller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der Steen.
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• Introduction: an overview of Medieval and Renaissance warfare
• Meeting the warriors and the tools of their trade
• The long-haired kings
• "Human thoughts are inclined to greed"
• "They went about in bands of thousands"
• "All the foreign knights, bowmen, their attendants, and the mercenaries"
• "An escort of galloglas armed with battle-axes"
• "Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir"
• "They were bold and warlike fellows"
• A skeleton in armor
• "The light of italy"
• "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous"
• Conclusions
• Appendices
• Armor
• Swiss mercenaries
• Chronology.

In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries - professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards - played violent, colourful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of brief impressionistic vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, this book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.
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• 1. Introduction-- Elena Woodacre
• 2. Women Monarchs in the Medieval Byzantine Court: Prejudice, Disbelief and Calumnies-- Alexandra Karagianni
• 3. To Have and Have Not: The Dower of Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily (1177-1189)-- Colette Bowie
• 4. The Many Wills of Violante de Aragon as Testament to Uncertainty in Thirteenth-Century Castilla-Leon-- Melissa R. Katz
• 5. Lost and Found: Visualizing a Medieval Queen's Destroyed Objects and Collection-- Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
• 6. The Political Role of a Portuguese Queen in Late Fourteenth Century-- Isabel de Pina Baleiras
• 7. Philippa of Lancaster: The Memory of a Model Queen-- Ana Rodrigues Oliveira
• 8. Not Lost in Translation: Aragonese Court Culture 'on tour' (1400-1480)-- Zita Rohr
• 9. Queenly Time in the Reign of Juan II of Castile (1406-1454)-- Diana Pelaz Flores
• 10. Princess Isabel of Portugal : 'First Lady' in a Kingdom without a Queen (1415-1428)-- Manuela Santos Silva
• 11. Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre-Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance-- Elena Woodacre
• 12. Consorts of Moroccan Sultans: Lalla Khnata Bint Bakkar, 'A woman with Three Kings'-- Fatima Rhorchi
• 13. The Sovereign and His Wife "Minister": Charles Emmanuel IV and Marie Clotilde Adelaide Xaviere of France: Interpersonal and political relations between the sovereigns of Sardinia-- Federica Contu
• 14. Queenship and Family Dynamics through the Correspondence of the Queen Maria Carolina of Naples-- Cinzia Recca.
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Drawing on innovative research in the rapidly growing field of Mediterranean studies, this groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Taken together, they form a varied and comprehensive account of the ways in which these royal women negotiated their positions within the context of the court, how they responded to widowhood and other challenging circumstances, and reactions to queens who exercised political power in ways considered to be beyond their accepted roles. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to the consorts of Moroccan sultans to queens regnant and consort in both the Italian and Iberian peninsulas, these remarkable studies offer a bracing new perspective on the concepts and practice of queenship more generally in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
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• Avant-propos / Jean Delumeau : Renaissance et modernité
• Femmes en "Mâle Modernité"
• Qui inspire qui ? Masculin et féminin dans la vie de l'esprit à l'époque moderne
• Catherine de Médicis, ou le simple corps de la reine
• Les politiques de la magnificence à la cour de Catherine de Médicis et d'Henri III
• Anne d'Autriche pendant la Fronde. Une régente dans la tourmente devant le tribunal de ses contemporains
• Huguenotes et bigotes. Les femmes et la Réforme vues par Nicolas Pithou
• L'histoire des femmes de pasteurs en France au XVIIe siècle et ses difficultés méthodologiques. L'exemple des épouses de Paul Ferry
• Les femmes iraniennes en "mâle modernité" au XVIIe siècle
• Construction confessionnelle et modalités de la confrontation
• Calvin, un catholique malgré la papauté ?
• La Réforme par l'hymen ? Mariage des clercs et Réforme au début du XVIe siècle
• La religion vécue en Bourgogne à la veille des guerres de Religion
• Les multiples vies de Bernard Bardon de Brun (1564-1625)
• Mark Greengrass : Une histoire qui intrigue. La Réforme en Béarn vue par un pasteur converti
• Henri IV, la Ligue ou l'Artois ? La ville d'Ardres et l'établissement de la domination espagnole (1596-1598)
• De "la liberté de conscience" à "la liberté de la patrie". Concorde et tolérance pendant les guerres de Religion des Pays-Bas et de la France au XVIe siècle
• L'inhumanité en Europe. Pour une analogie entre XVIe et XXe siècles
• Des tentatives de coexistence confessionnelle
• Nostradamus astrologue entre deux chaires ?
• Bayle patriote. Quelques conséquences théologico-politiques de sa loyauté envers la France
• Le sacrifice de la messe en France avant le concile : ni Rome ni Genève ?
• Retour à Lectoure
• La coexistence confessionnelle à Montferrand pendant les guerres de Religion (1566-1575)
• Épilogue / Jérôme Grondeux : L'individu et la modernité chez Thierry Wanegffelen
• Contributeurs
• Travaux et publications de Thierry Wanegffelen
• Index des noms de lieux
• Index des noms propres.

• Introduction-- Part I. Foundations and Expansion:
• 1. Military resources for hire, 1450-1560--
• 2. The expansion of military enterprise, 1560-1620--
• 3. Diversity and adaptation: military enterprise during the Thirty Years' War-- Part II. Operations and Structures:
• 4. The military contractor at war--
• 5. The business of war--
• 6. Continuity, transformation and rhetoric in European warfare after 1650-- Conclusion.
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This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and extensive networks of private enterprise reached unprecedented levels. This included not only the hiring of troops but their equipping, the supply of food and munitions, and the financing of their operations. The book reveals the extraordinary prevalence and capability of private networks of commanders, suppliers, merchants and financiers who managed the conduct of war on land and at sea, challenging the traditional assumption that reliance on mercenaries and the private sector results in corrupt and inefficient military force. In so doing, the book provides essential historical context to contemporary debates about the role of the private sector in warfare.
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• Introduction.
• 1. The Genesis of the Wars and the First French Expedition.
• 2. Milan and Naples Overwhelmed, 1496-1503.
• 3. The Conflict Widens.
• 4. New Orders Struggling to be Born, 1512-1519.
• 5. The Contest for Supremacy in Italy, 1520-1529.
• 6. The Transformation of War.
• 7. The Resources of War.
• 8. Testing the Boundaries, 1529-47.
• 9. 1547-1559.
• 10. The Legacies of the Wars. Bibliography. Index.
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The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the political masters and what their commanders and troops could actually accomplish on the ground, they analyse developments in military tactics and the tactical use of firearms and examine how Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about. The history of Renaissance Italy is currently being radically rethought by historians. This book is a major contribution to this re-evaluation, and will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance and military history.
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• L'art de la guerre au début du 16e siècle
• Trois traités antérieurs à 1513
• Philip von Seldeneck
• Bérault Stuart d'Aubigny
• Philippe de Clèves
• L'organisation d'une armée
• Les subdivisions d'une armée
• La surface occupée par une armée
• Le rôle de chaque arme
• La structure de commandement
• L'infanterie
• Le rôle de la cavalerie
• L'artillerie
• La guerre de siège
• La logistique
• La discipline
• Le contexte de l'affrontement
• La France avec les Suisses en Italie, 1494-1500
• Histoire rapide des traités entre la France et les Suisses jusqu'en 1499
• Le siège de Novare en 1495
• Le siège de Novare en 1499
• La campagne de Naples (1502-1503)
• Le siège de Gênes en 1507
• Le conflit franco-suisse, 1509-1512
• Le non renouvellement de l'alliance
• La campagne de 1510
• La campagne de Chiasso 1511
• La campagne de Pavie 1512
• La situation diplomatique au début de 1513
• Le duché de Milan
• La ligue
• Le pape
• L'Espagne
• Les tractations françaises avec les Suisses
• Les tractations françaises avec Venise
• Le rapport de force avant la campagne
• Les forces en présence : Français et Suisses
• L'armée française
• La théorie : les compagnies d'ordonnance et l'infanterie française
• La cavalerie
• L'infanterie française et italienne
• Les lansquenets
• L'artillerie
• Le camp
• Les effectifs
• Nationalité et origine des combattants
• Le commandement français
• Louis II de La Trémoille (1460-1525)
• Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1448-1518)
• Robert II de la Marck (1468-1536)
• Robert III de la Marck (1491-1537) Fleuranges
• Les autres chefs
• Les absents
• La coordination
• L'année des Suisses
• L'équipement
• Les effectifs suisses
• L'origine des combattants
• Les motivations des combattants
• Le problème de la discipline
• L'apport milanais
• Le commandement des Suisses
• La campagne
• La mise en place de l'invasion
• L'invasion française et vénitienne
• Suisses et Français face à face
• Le siège et les assauts
• L'arrivée des secours et la retraite des Français
• La bataille
• Le terrain
• Le plan suisse ; quel plan ?
• La première attaque et la charge des gendarmes
• Le corps à corps avec les lansquenets et la fin
• Les pertes et le butin
• Les suites
• Fin de la campagne en Italie - Les Suisses
• Fin de la campagne en Italie - Les Vénitiens
• Troubles à Berne, Soleure et Lucerne
• Guerre de Kôniz
• Troubles à Lucerne et Soleure
• L'invasion de la France par les Anglais et les Impériaux
• L'invasion de la Bourgogne
• Épilogue
• Conclusion
• Novare dans l'histoire militaire.

"Dernière victoire des Suisses dans une bataille d'envergure, celle de Novare en 1513 a vu une armée cosmopolite au service de la France s'affronter, pour la domination du Milanais, aux Suisses alliés au duc de Milan. Cette défaite de Louis XII s'inscrit dans une guerre généralisée entre la France, Venise et l'Écosse d'une part et l'Angleterre, l'Empire, les Suisses, l'Espagne sous l'incitation du pape de l'autre. 1513 a vu en effet une invasion de l'Angleterre par l'Écosse stoppée à Flodden où périt le roi Jacques IV, une invasion anglo-impériale au nord de la France et la défaite humiliante de Guinegatte où les cavaliers lourds français tournent bride presque sans combattre, enfin des troubles sociaux qui ont ébranlé la Confédération suisse. Novare marque l'apogée de la puissance militaire des Suisses, le dernier moment où leur système militaire basé sur le choc d'une masse d'infanterie a pu l'emporter face à des années véritablement interarmes. Elle permet d'expliquer pourquoi les "orgueilleux faiseurs de roi" n'ont pas été à même d'influencer la politique européenne malgré leurs succès retentissants dans les guerres de Bourgogne. Olivier Bangerter met en lumière les évolutions de l'art militaire ; il nous éclaire sur l'armement, l'organisation et les motivations des chefs et des soldats. Il tente de reconstituer les événements ; nous nous retrouvons ainsi face aux charges des gendarmes ou exposés au choc des formations de piquiers. Il nous familiarise avec le contexte de Marignan, qui a été bien plus complexe que ce que l'on a appris à nos écoliers, et tellement plus intéressant."--P. [4] of cover.

• Early female sovereigns in global perspective
• Europe's female sovereigns, 1300-1800 : an overview
• Difficult beginnings : heiresses with crowned husbands, 1300-1550
• Female regents promote female rule, 1500-1630
• Husbands finessed : the era of Elizabeth I, 1550-1700
• Husbands subordinated : the era of Maria Theresa, 1700-1800
• Ruling without inheriting : Russian empresses
• Female rule after 1800 : constitutions and popular culture.

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs-the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)-describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.
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• Early female sovereigns in global perspective
• Europe's female sovereigns, 1300-1800 : an overview
• Difficult beginnings : heiresses with crowned husbands, 1300-1550
• Female regents promote female rule, 1500-1630
• Husbands finessed : the era of Elizabeth I, 1550-1700
• Husbands subordinated : the era of Maria Theresa, 1700-1800
• Ruling without inheriting : Russian empresses
• Female rule after 1800 : constitutions and popular culture.

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs-the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)-describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction
• PART I: HUMANIST LETTER WRITING BEFORE
• 1550: VARIOUS APPROACHES Der neulateinische Bief als Quelle politisch-religioeser UEberzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivitat
• einer ambivalenten Gattung, Karl Enenkel Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume
• Briconnet (1521-1524), Reinier Leushuis Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament, Chris L. Heesakkers Juan Luis Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition, Charles Fantazzi Correspondance et strategie d'auteur: les lettres de Francois Rabelais, Paul J. Smith
• PART II: HUMANIST LETTERS AS A MIRROR OF THE REFORMATION Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper, and Mary
• Clarke Basset, Brenda M. Hosington The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon's Letters of Recommendation, Milton
• Kooistra Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557-1565), Rob van de Schoor Carolus Utenhovius: a Tale of Two Cities, Philip Ford Andreas Dudith (1533-1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe, Gabor Almasi Livres, erudition et irenisme a l'epoque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Menippee, Ingrid De
• Smet Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands, Jan Bloemendal
• PART III: LEARNED LETTER WRITERS IN THE NETHERLANDS AS WITNESSES OF THE DUTCH REVOLT Between Philip II and William of Orange: the correspondence of Christopher Plantin (c. 1520-1589), Dirk Imhof New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598) and Politics in the Netherlands, Antonio Davila Perez Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix's Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?, Rudolf De Smet Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, Johan Koppenol Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus? , Jeanine De Landtsheer
• PART IV: VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius, Jan Papy The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around
• 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their
• Catholic Correspondents, Dirk van Miert Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought, Robert von Friedeburg Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse, Colette Nativel Breasting the Waves: Grotius' Letters on Church and State, Harm-Jan van Dam At the Heart of the Twelve Years' Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius, Cor S.M. Rademaker A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius's Crusade for Church Unity, Henk Nellen Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision, Jim Dobreff Index Nominum.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Early Modern letter-writing was often the only way to maintain regular and meaningful contact. Scholars, politicians, printers, and artists wrote to share private or professional news, to test new ideas, to support their friends, or pursue personal interests. Epistolary exchanges thus provide a private lens onto major political, religious, and scholarly events. Sixteenth century's reform movements created a sense of disorder, if not outright clashes and civil war. Scholars could not shy away from these tensions. The private sphere of letter-writing allowed them to express, or allude to, the conflicts of interest which arose from their studies, social status, and religious beliefs. Scholarly correspondences thus constitute an unparalleled source on the interrelation between broad historical developments and the convictions of a particularly expressive group of individuals.
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• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction
• PART I: HUMANIST LETTER WRITING BEFORE
• 1550: VARIOUS APPROACHES Der neulateinische Bief als Quelle politisch-religioeser UEberzeugungen: Theoretische Reflexionen zur Diskursivitat
• einer ambivalenten Gattung, Karl Enenkel Spiritual Dialogues and Politics in the Correspondance between Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume
• Briconnet (1521-1524), Reinier Leushuis Erasmus and the Philological Study of the New Testament, Chris L. Heesakkers Juan Luis Vives and the Spectre of the Inquisition, Charles Fantazzi Correspondance et strategie d'auteur: les lettres de Francois Rabelais, Paul J. Smith
• PART II: HUMANIST LETTERS AS A MIRROR OF THE REFORMATION Translation in the Service of Politics and Religion: A Family Tradition for Thomas More, Margaret Roper, and Mary
• Clarke Basset, Brenda M. Hosington The Influence of the Protestant Reformation on Philip Melanchthon's Letters of Recommendation, Milton
• Kooistra Georgius Cassander: Searching for Religious Peace in his Correspondence (1557-1565), Rob van de Schoor Carolus Utenhovius: a Tale of Two Cities, Philip Ford Andreas Dudith (1533-1589): Conflicts and Strategies of a Religious Individualist in Confessionalising Europe, Gabor Almasi Livres, erudition et irenisme a l'epoque des Guerres de religion: Autour de la Satyre Menippee, Ingrid De
• Smet Topical Matters in Dedicatory Letters of Latin Plays in the Early Modern Netherlands, Jan Bloemendal
• PART III: LEARNED LETTER WRITERS IN THE NETHERLANDS AS WITNESSES OF THE DUTCH REVOLT Between Philip II and William of Orange: the correspondence of Christopher Plantin (c. 1520-1589), Dirk Imhof New Documents on Benito Arias Montano (1527-1598) and Politics in the Netherlands, Antonio Davila Perez Humanist Friendship, Politics and Religion in Marnix's Correspondence just before the Fall of Antwerp: Inconstancy or Constancy?, Rudolf De Smet Living to the Letter: The Correspondence of Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, Johan Koppenol Pius Lipsius or Lipsius Proteus? , Jeanine De Landtsheer
• PART IV: VICISSITUDES OF LATE HUMANISM Shifting Orthodoxy in the Republic of Letters: Caspar Schoppius mirroring Justus Lipsius, Jan Papy The Limits of Transconfessional Contact in the Republic of Letters around
• 1600: Scaliger, Casaubon, and their
• Catholic Correspondents, Dirk van Miert Between Scylla and Charybdis? Evidence on the Conversion of Christoph Besold from his Letters and his Legal and Political Thought, Robert von Friedeburg Franciscus Junius, F.F.: la question religieuse, Colette Nativel Breasting the Waves: Grotius' Letters on Church and State, Harm-Jan van Dam At the Heart of the Twelve Years' Truce Controversies: Conrad Vorstius, Gerard Vossius and Hugo Grotius, Cor S.M. Rademaker A Flaming Row in the Republic of Letters: Claude Saumaise on Hugo Grotius's Crusade for Church Unity, Henk Nellen Public Poses Revealed: From Critical Edition to Revision, Jim Dobreff Index Nominum.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Early Modern letter-writing was often the only way to maintain regular and meaningful contact. Scholars, politicians, printers, and artists wrote to share private or professional news, to test new ideas, to support their friends, or pursue personal interests. Epistolary exchanges thus provide a private lens onto major political, religious, and scholarly events. Sixteenth century's reform movements created a sense of disorder, if not outright clashes and civil war. Scholars could not shy away from these tensions. The private sphere of letter-writing allowed them to express, or allude to, the conflicts of interest which arose from their studies, social status, and religious beliefs. Scholarly correspondences thus constitute an unparalleled source on the interrelation between broad historical developments and the convictions of a particularly expressive group of individuals.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)