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Ronald G. Asch - Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 - 9781782383567 - V9781782383567
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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688

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Description for Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 Hardback. France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of 17th-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. Series: Monographs in British History: Publications of German Historical Institute. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Monographs in British History: Publications of German Historical Institute
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782383567
SKU
V9781782383567
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About Ronald G. Asch
Ronald G. Asch holds the Chair of Early Modern History at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He graduated from Tubingen University and previously taught in Munster and Osnabruck. He is an expert on sixteenth and seventeenth-century British and European history and has published monographs on the Thirty Years War and the history of the European nobilities in the early ... Read more

Reviews for Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688
This is an excellent book. It is intellectually outstanding in that it sustains an argument in comparative history throughout its whole length. The research is very impressive. The comparison is fruitful and appropriate. The book is capable of changing the field through its argument. It is thoroughly well-grounded and therefore convincing - Conceptually and methodologically this book is tightly organized ... Read more

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