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  • Intro; Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200-c. 1690); Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Contributors and Editors; An Introduction: Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200-c. 1690); Part 1: Top-down or Bottom-up? Princes, Communities and Representation; 1 Assemblies of Estates and Parliamentarism in Late Medieval Europe; 2 Political Representation and the Fiscal State in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile.
  • 3 Forms of Political Representation in Late Medieval Northern Italy: Merits and Shortcomings of the City-State Paradigm (14th-early 16th Century)4 Representation in Later Medieval and Early Modern Ireland; 5 Speaking in the Name of: Collective Action, Claim-making, and the Development of Pre-modern Representative Institutions; Part 2: Prelates, Nobles and Patricians: The Composition of the Representative Institutions; 6 "The King wishes and commands?" Reassessing Political Assembly in Scotland, c.1286-1329; 7 Officers of State and Representation in the Pre-modern Scottish Parliament.
  • 8 The Nobility in the Estates of the Late Medieval Duchy of Brabant9 Representation by Numbers: How Attendance and Experience Helped Holland to Control the Dutch States General (1626-1630); Part 3: Controlling the State: Ideas and Discourses; 10 The Antwerp Clerk Jan van Boendale and the Creation of a Brabantine Ideology; 11 Rituals of Unanimity and Balance: Deliberation in 15th- to 16thcentury Hainaut: A Fool's Game?; 12 Speech Acts and Political Communication in the Estates General of Valois and Habsburg Burgundy c. 1370-1530: Towards a Shared Political Language.
  • 13 Parliament, War and the "Public Sphere" in Late Medieval England: The Experience of Lancastrian Kent14 Who Has a Say? The Conditions for the Emergence and Maintenance of Political Participation in Europe before 1800; Conclusion: Reconsidering Political Representation in Europe, 1400-1700; Selective Bibliography; Index.