Lordship, kingship, and empire
Subtitle: the idea of monarchy, 1400-1525
By: J.H. Burns.
Series: The Carlyle lectures ;; 1988
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Monarchy -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Monarchy -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Europe -- Kings and rulers -- History
Description: "This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to intense debate as to the nature and authority of monarchy in its various forms. From such debates and polemics emerged many of the ideas that were to sustain the later confrontation between 'absolutism' and 'constitutionalism'." "In this book J. H. Burns examines the ideas generated by various 'crises of monarchy' in France, England, the Spanish kingdoms, and what still claimed to be the 'universal' monarchies of the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy. This is a lucid and stimulating new exploration of a major topic in the history of political thought by one of the leading scholars in the field."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-171) and index.