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oapen-20.500.12657-622232024-03-27T14:14:48Z Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe Geevers, Liesbeth Gustafsson, Harald State Formation, Dynasties, Conglomerate States thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history 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. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process. This volume brings together existing knowledge of the topic with the aim of exchanging insights and furthering knowledge. 2023-03-30T09:41:34Z 2023-03-30T09:41:34Z 2023 book 9789463728751 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62223 eng Early Modern Court Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048554034.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463728751 10.5117/9789463728751 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463728751 1 306 Amsterdam open access
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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. The quest is to develop an understanding how this family network interplayed with other factors in the state formation process. This volume brings together existing knowledge of the topic with the aim of exchanging insights and furthering knowledge.
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