Geevers, Liesbeth
(ed.)
Gustafsson, Harald
(ed.)
Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Early Modern Court Studies
Número de páginas: 304 págs. 15.6 x 23.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 28-04-2023
EAN: 9789463728751
ISBN: 978-94-6372-875-1
Precio (sin IVA): 164,48 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 171,06 €
In state formation research, princely houses have been a blind spot. The development of states has been discussed from many perspectives, like interstate competition, internal social conflicts, fiscal-military developments, etc., but at the centre of most European states, there was a princely house. These ruling houses have been overlooked in studies about state formation. What’s more, when discussing such dynasties, the vertical chronological perspective (grandfather-father-son) is all dominating, for instance in the focus on dynastic continuity, dynastic culture and representation, and the like. This collection of essays highlights the horizontal perspective (ruler, all children, siblings, cousins), in asking how the members of a princely family acted as a power network.