• Le prince, le despote, le tyran dans l'Europe de la réforme
• La leçon de Jean Bodin (1530-1596) sur la distinction "vitale", oubliée, entre despotisme et tyrannie
• Marie de Guise : femme prince ou "tyranne" ?
• L'expérience polonaise d'Henri III dans les écrits de la ligue : un réquisitoire contre le valois tyran
• "We have made a god of our owne bloud" : Alexander the great as hero and tyrant on the early modern stage
• King James and "pontificiall tyrannie"
• Déconstruire et repenser la tyrannie à l'heure des révolutions anglaises
• Deconstructing and rethinking despotism and tyranny in the age of the english revolutions
• Le prince, le tyran, le despote, figures du souverain chez Bodin, Hobbes, Spinoza ou le prince moderne, de la souveraineté absolue à la séparation des pouvoirs
• "Unus tyrannus" ? Aristotle's mistake and the dissolution of tyranny in hobbes's léviathans
• Hobbes on despotic power, tyranny, and resistance
• Formes et figures de la tyrannie dans les memoirs of the life of colonel Hutchinson de Lucy Hutchinson
• Reflets du despote et du tyran dans l'Europe des lumières et de la révolution
• Reflections of the tyrant in enlightenment Europe damiens et l'image de louis xv, les faux-semblants du tyrannicide au tournant des lumières
• "A sovereignty to will and a sovereignty to act" : du tyran monarchique au souverain republican chez Thomas Pane
• From king log to despot : the turning point of Varennes in the republican press
• Tyrannicide et politique linguistique : la langue mise au service du peuple souverain par Henri Grégoire.

"Ce volume veut revisiter et tenter de saisir la complexité de la figure du souverain en Europe à l'époque moderne en confrontant plusieurs approches disciplinaires. Née dans un contexte de profondes mutations politico-religieuses engendrées notamment par la naissance de monarchies territoriales centralisées et autonomes, par la Réforme protestante et par les guerres de religion, la notion de souveraineté est à la fois le lieu d'innovations juridiques et philosophiques et le lieu de nombreuses tensions. Au moment même où la doctrine de la souveraineté prend son essor, les figures-types du bon prince, du despote et du tyran, héritées de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Âge, ressurgissent en effet avec une nouvelle acuité. Devant les dangers qui peuvent naître de la rencontre entre une puissance souveraine et une volonté humaine déréglée par les passions, les écrits philosophiques, politiques et littéraires témoignent tous de la nécessité à la fois de remettre en jeu et de réinterpréter ces trois modèles de gouvernants pour tenter de limiter ou de réguler le pouvoir absolu du monarque. Par ailleurs, la réalité du règne des reines vient confronter la théorie de la souveraineté avec la représentation des sexes chez des penseurs majoritairement attachés au système patriarcal. C'est donc à un difficile exercice d'équilibre et d'adaptation que s'adonnent Bodin, Buchanan, Shakespeare, Samuel Daniel, Hobbes ou encore Montesquieu, durant cette période clé. L'image qu'ils nous donnent du souverain n'est ni cohérente ni stable, mais fissurée par les contradictions."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1 European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas' - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
• 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George - Miles Taylor
• 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867-68 - Cindy McCreery
• 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German Southwest Africa - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
• 5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa - Susie Protschky
• 6 Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch - Jean Gelman Taylor
• 7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon - Robert Aldrich
• 8 Kingitanga and crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy - Vincent O'Malley
• 9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian independence - Jim Masselos
• 10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien regime - Francois-Joseph Ruggiu
• 11 Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852-70 - Emmanuelle Guenot
• 12 The British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East - Matthieu Rey
• 13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and fascism in the Italian colonies - Alessandro Pes
• 14 'So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808-10 - Bruce Baskerville
• 15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India - Harshan Kumarasingham
• 16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991-2015 - Mark McKenna Index
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Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old regime empires down to the Commonwealth of today. With case studies drawn from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the chapters analyse constitutional questions about the role of the crown in overseas empires, the pomp and pageantry of the monarchy as it transferred to the colonies, and the fate of indigenous sovereigns under European colonial control. The volume, with chapters on North America, Asia, Africa and Australasia, provides new perspectives on colonial history, the governance of empire, and the transnational history of monarchies in modern Europe. -- .
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• 1 European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas' - Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery
• 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George - Miles Taylor
• 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867-68 - Cindy McCreery
• 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
• 5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa - Susie Protschky
• 6 Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch - Jean Gelman Taylor
• 7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon - Robert Aldrich
• 8 Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy - Vincent O'Malley
• 9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian independence - Jim Masselos
• 10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien regime - Francois-Joseph Ruggiu
• 11 Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852-70 - Emmanuelle Guenot
• 12 The British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East - Matthieu Rey
• 13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies - Alessandro Pes
• 14 'So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808-10 - Bruce Baskerville
• 15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India - Harshan Kumarasingham
• 16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991-2015 - Mark McKenna Index
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Queen Victoria, who also bore the title of Empress of India, had a real and abiding interest in the British Empire, but other European monarchs also ruled over possessions 'beyond the seas'. This collection of original essays explores the connections between monarchy and colonialism, from the old regime empires down to the Commonwealth of today. With case studies drawn from Britain, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, the chapters analyse constitutional questions about the role of the crown in overseas empires, the pomp and pageantry of the monarchy as it transferred to the colonies, and the fate of indigenous sovereigns under European colonial control. The volume, with chapters on North America, Asia, Africa and Australasia, provides new perspectives on colonial history, the governance of empire, and the transnational history of monarchies in modern Europe. -- .
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung : der transkultureüe Vergleich zwischen Komparatistik und Transkulturalität
• Konzeptionelle Verortung
• Die komparatistische Methode : Anliegen, Potential und Schwächen
• Der transkulturelle Vergleich als kulturalistische Komparatistik in einer geteilten Welt
• Die Vielfalt der Kulturbegriffe
• Transkultureller Vergleich und Zivilisationsvergleich
• Der Weg der Vormoderne in die Globalisierungsforschung
• Der transkulturelle Zugriff als Netzwerk-Experiment
• Monarchische Herrschaftsformen im Fokus
• Eliten, Sakralität und Gedenken : die Auswahl der Themen
• Eliten
• Sakralität, Sakralisierung
• Gedenken, Memoria
• Eliten in transkultureller Perspektive
• Vorüberlegungen
• Universalität des Adels?
• Quellenbegriff oder analytische Kategorie?
• Probleme des Elitenbegriffs
• Konzeptionell-methodischer Lösungsvorschlag und Aufbau des Kapitels
• Konstituierung und Ausbildung von Eliten
• Einleitung
• Die Herrscherfamilie und die Rolle von Frauen in monarchischen Herrschaftsformen
• Politische Handlungsspielräume von Frauen in monarchischen Herrschaftsfamilien
• Mätressen am französischen Königshof der Frühen Neuzeit
• Frauen der indischen Mogulfamilie in der Frühen Neuzeit
• Funktionseliten: Militär, Verwaltung und Religion
• Militär
• Verwaltung und Beratungsgremien
• Religion
• Ergebnis
• Formen und Funktionen der Eliteninszenierung im Umfeld monarchischer Herrschaft
• Einleitung
• Festmähler und Sitzordnungen als Beispiele für Eliteninszenierungen im transkulturellen Vergleich
• Schlussüberlegungen
• Konflikte zwischen Herrschaftsansprüchen und elitären Strategien
• Konkurrenz und Konflikt zwischen Monarchen und Eliten
• Monarchen und Konflikte innerhalb der Eliten ihrer Reiche
• Fazit
• Zum Elitenbegriff
• Funktionale Perspektiven : eine transkulturelle Erweiterung des Elitenbegriffs
• Analytische Leitperspektiven
• Das Zusammenspiel von monarchischer Herrschaft und herrschaftsnahen Eliten
• Sakralität und Sakralisierung in transkultureller Perspektive
• Sakralität als epochenspezifische Kategorie im imperialen Monotheismus
• Die Forschungsdebatten über 'Sakralität', 'Religion' und 'sakrales Königtum'
• Religion und Sakralität im römischen Reich vor der Christianisierung
• Das christliche Kaisertum
• Die imperiale Sakralität
• Die weltlich distanzierte, klerikale Sakralität der religiösen Spezialisten
• Die weltmonarchische Sakralität
• Das islamische Kalifat
• Die imperiale Sakralität
• Die weltlich distanzierte Sakralität der religiösen Spezialisten
• Die weltmonarchische Sakralität
• Fazit
• Sakralisierungsstrategien in partikularen Königtümern
• Sakralisierungsstrategien eines Hindu-Königs : Sanskrit-Literatur und vedische Rituale
• Sakralität und normative Sanskrit-Literatur
• Indische Königsweihe und vedische Rituale
• Die christliche Herrschersalbung
• Kontexte der Erfindung des Salbungsritus im frühen Mittelalter
• Fortführung, Transformation und Komplementierung des Salbungsritus im hohen und späten Mittelalter
• Salbungstraditionen und alternative Sakralisierungsstrategien : das Reich und Frankreich im Spätmittelalter
• Salbungstraditionen zwischen Konflikt, Kontinuität und Innovation im konfessionellen Zeitalter : das frühneuzeitliche französische und dänische Königtum
• Fazit
• Gedächtnis, Gedenken und Herrschaft in transkultureller Perspektive
• Vorüberlegungen
• Gedächtnis, Gedenken und transkultureller Vergleich
• Vom Erinnern sprechen : Begriffe
• Medien und Praktiken des Gedenkens
• Andenken bauen : Begräbnisriten, Grabmäler, Monumente
• Begräbniszeremoniell und Grabmalskult als Mittel der Herrschaftsstabilisierung
• Monumente
• Benennen und Anrufen : Namen und Kult
• Namengebung : Akte der Benennung
• Sich den Namen machen : Rufname, Beiname, epitheton ornans
• Anrufung und Fürbitten : Kultische Vollzüge des Gedenkens
• Komponieren, Konstruieren, Konfigurieren
• Gestreute Bilder : gesteuertes Gedenken
• Genealogien : die dynastische Ordnung der Vergangenheit
• Fazit
• Kurzbiographien
• Abbildungsnachweis
• Siglenverzeichnis
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Quellen
• Ungedruckte Quellen
• Gedruckte Quellen
• Literatur
• Register.

Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display - although these remain important - and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only add.

• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Key Themes of Elite Culture The Cultural Construction of Elite Identity Basic Agendas: Political Culture, Religion and 'Science' Media and Messages: The Arts The End of an Age: The Mid-Eighteenth Century Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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By the mid-seventeenth century, several major European monarchies were collapsing. Battered by incessant war and religious rebellion, rulers clashed with landowners and clergy on whom they relied for territorial and spiritual support. Nicholas Henshall argues that from this crisis emerged a new deal. Monarchs reasserted traditional values and resolved to work with, rather than against, their nobles and churches. The Zenith of European Monarchy and its Elites: The Politics of Culture, 1650-1750: * focuses on a previously neglected key elite bonding strategy * explains how a common identity was forged by erecting cultural defences against outsiders * demonstrates how the power and prestige of the ruling classes rose to unprecedented heights. Essential reading for students and scholars of early modern European history, this fascinating new study shows how the period 1650-1750 gains a new coherence - as the pinnacle of Europe's monarchies and their elites.
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• of ContributorsIntroduction HANSBLOM, JOHN CHRI STIAN LAURSEN, and LUISA SIMONUTTIPART I: MONARCHISMS AND REPUBLICANISMS IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SPINOZA, BAYLE, FENELON, HUME, AND MONTESQUIEU Spinoza on Res Publica,
• Republics, and Monarchies HANS
• BLOM 'Absolute, Not Arbitrary, Power': Monarchism and Politics in the Thought of the Huguenots and Pierre Bayle LUISA S IMONUTTI Bayle and Hume on Monarchy, Scepticism, and Forms of Government SALLY
• JENKI NSON Fenelon's 'Republican' Monarchism in Telemachus PATRICK
• R ILEY Free Trade, Free Speech, and Free Love: Monarchy from the Liberal Prospect in Mid-eighteenth Century France MICHAEL
• MOSHE RPART II. ENLIGHTENED CHRISTIAN AND MILLENARIAN MONARCHISMS Caesar Augustus in Vico's New
• Science: Monarchy
• as Remedy for Democracy GEORGE
• WRIGHT 'Everything Must Be Redone': Condillac as Critic of Despotism and Defender of Toleration GIANNI
• PAGANINI The Fifth Monarchy Redux RICHARD
• POPK INPART III: DEFENDING AND RESISTING ABSOLUTE MONARCHY Defending Monarchism in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century HENRIK
• HORST BOLL Popular Philosophy and Absolute Monarchy JOHAN
• VAN DERZANDE The Prussian Monarchy and the Practices of Enlightenment MICHAEL
• SAUTER Theorizing Enlightened Absolutism: The Swiss Republican Origins of Prussian Monarchism
• SIMON E Z UR BUCHEN Intellectual Resistance to Absolute Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Castillon's Translation of Blount's Philostratus JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSENPARTIV: REFLECTIONS ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY Monarchy in the Name of Britain: The Case of George III J .G . A . POCOCKIndex.
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In recent decades, historians of early-modern European political thought have tended to neglect the concept of monarchy and monarchism, focusing instead on the development of republicanism during this period. Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment aims to correct this imbalance by illustrating that many thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in fact, saw monarchy as a solution to the instability, chaos, and even violence of experiments with republican government. Editors Hans Blom, John Christian Laursen, and Luisa Simonutti have brought together outstanding scholars in the field to correct many of the misleading stereotypes about monarchy, and to explore the variety and dynamism of this form of government, in early-modern Europe. Contributors explore four major themes: monarchisms in the political thought of Spinoza, Bayle, F nelon, Hume, and Montesquieu; enlightened Christian and millenarian monarchisms; defending and resisting absolute monarchy; and, finally, reflections on the British monarchy. Fascinating and timely, Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment will be of interest to historians, political theorists, political philosophers, and political scientists.
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Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book also uses the concept of 'para-royals' such as the Perons, Kennedys, Clintons and now in Britain, the Blairs. It analyzes the nature of republican symbology as incorporated in media rituals and representations to try to define key differences within the category of the 'modern' in contemporary Europe.
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• CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION Monarchy and Power;
• 1. Modern and Postmodern Monarchy;
• 2. The Ideological Realm;
• 3. The Gnawing Absence of Reality: Fables of The Royal Boudoir In The British Media;
• 4. The UK, Spain and Beyond: Monarchy and Modernity;
• 5. Spain
• Two Weddings and a 'Friendship': From the Modern to the Postmodern;
• 6. Belgium
• A Country Reunited?;
• 7. Norway
• A Different Land?;
• 8. The Netherlands: The Prince and The Politicians;
• 9. Royalty and Celebrity; CONCLUSION 10 Royal Power and Media Power.

• AFTERWORD Calibration and Compliance In The UK: Mourning, Celebration and Conformity In 2002APPENDIX A Note on Britain and Europe; REFERENCES; INDEX.

Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book also uses the concept of 'para-royals' such as the Perons, Kennedys, Clintons and now in Britain, the Blairs. It analyzes the nature of republican symbology as incorporated in media rituals and representations to try to define key differences within the category of the 'modern' in contemporary Europe.
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• 1. The dawn of modern times
• 2. The changing face of nobility
• 3. A question of definition State power and aristocratic authority
• 4. From consensus to conflict Monarchy and nobility between war and religion
• 5. Court, patronage and absolutist cohabitation
• 6. Epilogue.

This important new book takes a fascinating thematic approach, providing a useful survey of the position and role of the nobility in the government of states in early modern Europe.

This work constitutes an appraisal of the development of kingship and royal administration in the kingdoms which, by the seventh century AD, had been established in the former Western Roman Empire. By viewing the seventh century in its own terms, and providing a detailed critique of the primary sources, the author sets out to show that kings were stronger than has often been thought, and their administration more sophisticated. A feature of his analysis is its setting of the evidence for early Anglo-Saxon England alongside that relating to the continental kingdoms. The evolution of governmental structures in a period increasingly remote from the imperial past is traced, as is the relationship of the "barbarian" kingdoms to the Byzantine Empire, and it is argued that, despite emergent differences between the kingdoms, many of their administrative institutions continued to be influenced by a common inheritence of Roman traditions.
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• Family, sex, and power : the rhythms of medieval queenship / John Carmi Parsons
• Roles and functions of queens in Arpádian and Angevin Hungary (1000-1386 A.D.) / János M. Bak
• Queenship in medieval Denmark / Inge Skovgaard-Peterson (with Nanna Damsholt)
• Women at the court of Charlemagne : a case of monstrous regiment? / Janet L. Nelson
• Mothers, daughters, and power : some Plantagenet evidence, 1150-1500 / John Carmi Parsons
• Queens dowager and queens regent in tenth-century Léon and Navarre / Roger Collins
• Capetian women and the regency / André Poulet
• The king's mother and royal prerogative in early sixteenth-century France / Elizabeth McCartney
• The portrayal of royal women in England, mid-tenth to mid-twelfth centuries / Pauline Stafford
• Reigning queens in medieval Europe : when, where, and why / Armin Wolf
• Female succession and the language of power in the writings of twelfth-century churchmen / Lois L. Huneycutt.

• A crisis of monarchy?-- lordship - the problem of dominium-- lordship and kingship - France and England-- the shaping of absolutism - Spain-- monarchy - papacy and empire-- the conciliarist tradition and beyond-- the triumph of monarchy?
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This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the 15th and early 16th centuries European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to intense debate as to the nature and authority of monarchy in its various forms. From such debates and polemics emerged many of the ideas that were to sustaim the later confrontation between "absolutism" and "constitutionalism". Coverage includes the "crises of monarchy" in France and England, the Spanish kingdoms and what still claimed to be the "universal" monarchies of Empire and Papacy.
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• Wolgast, E. Absolutismus in England.--Hinrichs, E. Absolute Monarchie in Frankreich.--Mediger, W. Autokratie und Adel in Russland.- Nürnberger, R. Der Aufgeklärte Absolutismus in Preussen und kein Ende.