Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 - Michael Questier

Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630

Buch | Hardcover
518 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882633-0 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into other royal and princely families. Michael Questier shows that while this secured political power, it also caused a lot of religious upheaval in this period of already-fraught western Christendom.
Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 revisits what used to be regarded as an entirely 'mainstream' topic in the historiography of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - namely, the link between royal dynastic politics and the outcome of the process usually referred to as 'the Reformation'. As everyone knows, the principal mode of transacting so much of what constituted public political activity in the early modern period, and especially of securing something like political obedience if not exactly stability, was through the often distinctly un-modern management of the crown's dynastic rights, via the line of royal succession and in particular through matching into other royal and princely families. Dynastically, the states of Europe resembled a vast sexual chess board on which the trick was to preserve, advance, and then match (to advantage) one's own most powerful pieces. This process and practice were, obviously, not unique to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But the changes in religion generated by the discontents of western Christendom in the Reformation period made dynastic politics ideologically fraught in a way which had not been the case previously, in that certain modes of religious thought were now taken to reflect on, critique, and hinder this mode of exercising monarchical authority, sometimes even to the extent of defining who had the right to be king or queen.

Michael Questier recently left East London to take up a senior research fellowship in the department of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

Preface
1: The Elizabethan Settlement, the Issue of the Royal Succession, and the Emergence of Religious Dissent, c. 1558-1571
2: Puritans, Catholics, and Dynastic Crises, 1571-1582
3: Protestant Foreign Policy and the Coming of War, 1582-1593
4: European Politics and the Stuart Succession in England, 1593-1603
5: The Accession of James Stuart and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1603-1610
6: The Jacobean Polity and the Failure of Via Media Politics, 1611-1620
7: Dynastic Marriage Diplomacy, Parliamentary Conflict, Peace and War, 1621-1629
Conclusion: Into the Personal Rule of Charles I

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 236 mm
Gewicht 898 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-882633-8 / 0198826338
ISBN-13 978-0-19-882633-0 / 9780198826330
Zustand Neuware
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