Luther's legacy : The Thirty Years War and the modern notion of 'state' in the empire, 1530s to 1790s
Robert von Friedeburg
Bok Engelsk 2015
| Omfang | vi, 441 sider
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| Opplysninger | 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 -- 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' .. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9781107111875
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