Luther's legacy: the Thirty Years War and the modern notion of 'state' in the empire, 1530s to 1790s
"In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus"--
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Territorial state
/ Theory of the state
/ Protestantism
/ Thirty Years's War
/ History 1530-1790
B Luther, Martin 1483-1546 / Germany / Territorial state / Theory of the state / Protestantism / Thirty Years's War / History 1530-1800 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance |
| Further subjects: | B
Reformation
Influence
B Germany History 16th century B Power (Social sciences) (Europe) History B Germany History 17th century B Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 Influence B Balance of power History B Luther, Martin 1483-1546 Influence B Germany History 18th century B State, The History B Europe Politics and government 1648-1715 |
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| Summary: | "In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus"-- Introduction -- Luther's legacy and the 'German' notion of state -- Meinecke's riddle : reason of state and Reformation prudence -- Royal rights and princely dynasties in late medieval and early modern Germany, fourteenth to early seventeenth century -- Civil order and princely rights, 1450s to 1580s : the making of the elements -- The transformation of ideas on order and the rise of the 'fatherland', 1580s to 1630s : the re-ordering of the elements -- The challenge of 'reason of state', 1600s to 1650s -- The catastrophe of war and the collapse of relations between princes and vassals -- Re-establishing of compromise and the new use of the elements : Seckendorff, Pufendorf and the dissemination of the new concept of 'state' -- Readings of despotism : the attack on 'war-despotism' between Bodin and Montesquieu -- Conclusion : Luther's legacy : the 'Germaness' of the modern notion of 'state' |
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| ISBN: | 1107111870 |