The Limits of Royal Authority
Subtitle: Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521033633
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1600 to c 1700; History; History - General History; History: World; Spain; Europe - Spain & Portugal; General; History / Europe / General; History / Spain & Portugal; Power (Social sciences)--Spain--Castile--Hist; Power (Social sciences)--Spain--Castile--History--17th century; Social Science-General; Europe - General
First sentence: The tests to which obedience was put in seventeenth-century Castile, the nuances and ambiguities, not to say manipulation, to which it was subjected, reflected not only popular and local attitudes toward royal power but also, of course, the nature of the power itself.