Author: Jeanne Nagle
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN: 1622753488
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Stories of pageantry associated with kings, queens, and the upper class have long captivated readers of all ages. The reality behind how these entities have operated within set governmental systems has not always been as glamorous as these tales, but it retains an allure of its own nonetheless. This book provides a firm grounding in the historic political, social, and economic implications of rule by monarchy, including the prevalence of the feudal system in medieval Europe. Modern monarchies and the role of the aristocracy in every age are also detailed.
Author: Sidney Painter
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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This essay provides a rapid but careful survey of the principal events connected with the accretion of territorial bases and development of institutional foundations for three of the great political sovereignties of modern Europe.
Author: Jeanne Nagle
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 162275347X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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Book Description
Stories of pageantry associated with kings, queens, and the upper class have long captivated readers of all ages. The reality behind how these entities have operated within set governmental systems has not always been as glamorous as these tales, but it retains an allure of its own nonetheless. This book provides a firm grounding in the historic political, social, and economic implications of rule by monarchy, including the prevalence of the feudal system in medieval Europe. Modern monarchies and the role of the aristocracy in every age are also detailed.
Author: James Russell Major
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Scholars of early modern France have traditionally seen an alliance between the kings and the bourgeoisie, leading to an absolute, centralized monarchy, perhaps as early as the reign of Francis I (1515-47). In From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy, eminent historian J. Russell Major draws on forty-five years of research to dispute this view, offering both a masterful synthesis of existing scholarship and new information concerning the role of the nobility in these changes. Renaissance monarchs, Major contends, had neither the army nor the bureaucracy to create an absolute monarchy; they were strong only if they won the support of the nobility and other vocal elements of the population. At first they enjoyed this support, but the Wars of Religion revealed their inherent weakness. Major describes the struggle between such statesmen as Bellivre, Sully, Marillac, and Richelieu to impose their concept of reform and includes an account of how Louis XIV created an absolute monarchy by catering to the interests of the nobility and other provincial leaders. It was this "carrot" approach, accompanied by the threat of the "stick," that undergirded his absolutism. Major concludes that the rise of absolutism was not accompanied, as has often been asserted, by the decline of the nobility. Rather, nobles were able to adapt to changing conditions that included the decline of feudalism, the invention of gunpowder, and inflation. In doing so, they remained the dominant class, whose support kings found it necessary to seek.
Author: Charles Petit-Dutaillis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Author: Jay M. Smith
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472096381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution
Author: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Studies in Early Modern European History
ISBN: 9781526148377
Category : Feudalism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.
Author: Carl Stephenson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801490132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Gives a clear and concise account of the feudal system, from its origin and growth to its decay. Also covers the principles of feudal tenure, chivalry, the military life of the nobility, and the workings of the feudal government.
Author: Marc Bloch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788189441128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781680086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson vindicates and refines the explanatory power of historical materialism, while casting a fascinating light on the Ancient world, the Germanic invasions, nomadic society, and the different routes taken to feudalism in Northern, Mediterranean, Eastern and Western Europe. Through this work and its companion volume, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Anderson presents a Marxist history of Western political development that takes readers from the first stirrings of political consciousness in the classical world to the rise of absolutist monarchies in Europe and the birth of the modern epoch.
