Luther's legacy : the Thirty Years War and the modern notion of 'state' in the empire, 1530s to 1790s /

In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus. It emerged to stabilize monarchy from dynastic insecurity and constrain it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Von Friedeburg, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Luther, Martin, > 1483-1546 > Influence.
Luther, Martin, > 1483-1546
BMBF-Statusseminar
1500-1799
State, The > History.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 > Influence.
Reformation > Influence.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History.
Balance of power > History.
État > Histoire.
Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-1648 > Influence.
Réforme (Christianisme) > Influence.
Équilibre des puissances > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Germany.
Balance of power
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
Reformation > Influence
State, The
Territorialstaat
Staatslehre
Protestantismus
Dreißigjähriger Krieg
Germany > History > 16th century.
Germany > History > 17th century.
Germany > History > 18th century.
Europe > Politics and government > 1648-1715.
Allemagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Allemagne > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Europe > Politique et gouvernement > 1648-1715.
Europe
Germany
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Luther's legacy and the 'German' notion of state
  • Meinecke's riddle : 'reason of state' and Reformation prudence
  • Royal rights and princely dynasties in late medieval and early modern Germany, fourteenth to early seventeenth century
  • Civil order and princely rights, 1450s to 1580s : the making of the elements
  • The transformation of ideas on order and the rise of the 'fatherland', 1580s to 1630s : the re-ordering of the elements
  • The challenge of 'reason of state', 1600s to 1650s
  • The catastrophe of war and the collapse of relations between princes and vassals
  • The re-establishing of compromise and the new use of the elements : Seckendorff, Pufendorf and the dissemination of the new concept of 'state'
  • Readings of despotism : the attack on 'war-despotism' between Bodin and Montesquieu
  • Conclusion. Luther's legacy : the 'Germaness' of the modern notion of 'state'.

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