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Luther's Legacy - The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s (Hardcover)
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Luther's Legacy - The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s (Hardcover)
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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. It emerged to stabilize monarchy from
dynastic insecurity and constrain it to protect the rule of law,
subjects, and their lives and property. Against this background,
Lutheran and neo-Aristotelian notions on the spiritual and material
welfare of subjects dominating German debate interacted with
Western European arguments against 'despotism' to protect the lives
and property of subjects. The combined result of this interaction
under the impact of the Thirty Years War was Seckendorff's Der
Deutsche Furstenstaat (1656), constraining the evil machinations of
princes and organizing the detailed administration of life in the
tradition of German Policey, and which founded a specifically
German notion of the modern state as comprehensive provision of
services to its subjects.
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