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Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Hardcover)
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Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 (Hardcover)
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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.
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