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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and edu...
Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665
Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is often seen as one of failure and decline. Unlike his predecessors, Haro exercised the favour that he enjoyed in a discreet way, acting as a perfect courtier and honest broker between the king and his aristocratic subjects. Nevertheless, Alistair Malcolm also argues that the presence of a royal favourite at the head of the government of Spain amounted to a major ...
1998
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
Voices of Conscience
Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs. Against the backdrop of the momentous intellectual, theological, and political shifts that marked this period, the study examines comparatively how the ethical challenges of political action were confronted in Spain and France and how questions of conscience became a major argument in the hegemonic struggle between the two competing Catholic powers. As Nicole Reinhardt demonstrates, 'counsel of conscience' was not a peripheral feature of early-modern political culture, but fundamental for the definition of...
Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman
When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman, Queen Regent Mariana of Austria emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, while her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. Mitchell provides a nuanced account of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–75) of the global...
The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective (c. 1620–1650)
In The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective Angela Ballone offers, for the first time, a comprehensive study of an understudied period of Mexican early modern history. By looking at the mandates of three viceroys who, to varying degrees, participated in the events surrounding the Tumult, the book discusses royal authority from a transatlantic perspective that encompasses both sides of the Iberian Atlantic. Considering the similarities and tensions that coexisted in the Iberian Atlantic, Ballone offers a thorough reassessment of current historiography on the Tumult proving that, despite the conflicts and arguments underlying the disturbances, there was never any intention to do away with the king’s authority in New Spain.
Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe
This volume presents the results of the most recent scholarly investigation into Irish communities on the Continent in the early modern period. Essays deal not only with the activities of military, political and ecclesiastical migrants in Spain and France but also with Irish merchants in the Low Countries, Irish industrial entrepreneurs in Sweden and Irish diplomats in Saxony. Of particular significance are the synthetic essays that set the results of archival research into rigorous interpretative frameworks based on the latest advances in European and Irish historiography. This ground-breaking collection confirms the centrality of migrants and migrant communities in the evolution of early modern Europe and sets a demanding but exciting agenda for future collaborative work in the field.
Los Consejeros del Rey (1500-1836). Volumen II. Aragón y Pignatelli-Borrull y Ramón
En esta magna obra, por su extensión y contenido, Javier Barrientos Grandon efectúa un recorrido por el sistema de gobernación de la monarquía española, mediante el examen de los personajes que se integraron en el sistema polisinodial o de los consejos. Por orden alfabético, y para el período 1500-1836, la estructura de cada biografía asume un modelo general que, con las variaciones accidentales derivadas de la naturaleza peculiar de cada consejo y de los datos y noticias que ha sido posible adquirir, gira en torno al oficio y la jurisdicción. Este criterio rector determina que su estructura no sea necesariamente cronológica y, así, las biografías cubren los siguientes ámbitos: ...
Ocasión ilustrada del fuero real. Las ediciones de 1781 y 1836
Se estudian en este libro dos procesos editoriales emprendidos en las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII y que tuvieron por objeto la publicación del Fuero Real, libro de leyes elaborado por Alfonso X a mediados del siglo XIII, vigente y muy vivo todavía cinco siglos después de su redacción. En 1779 se estimó que podía ser útil poner de nuevo en circulación estas leyes medievales del mismo modo en el que se habían venido imprimiendo desde principios de los siglos modernos, pero las nuevas concepciones ilustradas interfirieron en el plan original y lo modificaron sin lograr alterarlo sustancialmente. Con arreglo a esas ideas ilustradas se puso en marcha en 1794 una nueva empresa editorial que incluía la publicación del Fuero Real, pero la dilación del proceso, culminado en 1836, y las mismas circunstancias históricas en las que hubo de desarrollarse hicieron de nuevo que el resultado no pudiera adecuarse al plan originario.
La Administración del protectorado español en Marruecos
Esta obra se publicó con motivo del centenario de la creación del Protectorado español en Marruecos. A estos efectos, trece profesores de Universidad han reunido sus esfuerzos para ofrecer al lector una trama argumental lo más amplia, objetiva y completa posible del Protectorado que España ejerció en Marruecos desde 1912 hasta 1956, centrándose preferentemente en los aspectos político-administrativos e institucionales más relevantes. No es, por tanto, una Historia definitiva, pero sí una perspectiva metodológica imprescindible. En ese año de 1912 cuando se inicia uno de los episodios de nuestra Historia, que más tópicos ha producido en el imaginarios histórico hispano: el desa...
