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Recent research has begun to highlight the importance of German
arguments about legitimate resistance and self-defence for French,
English and Scottish Protestants. This book systematically studies
the reception of German thought in England, arguing that it played
a much greater role than has hitherto been acknowledged. Both the
Marian exiles, and others concerned with the fate of continental
Protestantism, eagerly read what German reformers had to say about
the possibility of resisting the religious policies of a monarch
without compromising the institution of monarchy itself. However,
the transfer of German arguments to England, with its individual
political and constitutional environment, necessarily involved the
subtle transformation of these arguments into forms compatible with
local traditions. In this way, German arguments contributed
significantly to the emergence of new theories, emphasising natural
rights.
Im Deutschland der Fruhen Neuzeit besass der uberwiegende Teil der
Bevolkerung keine standischen Herrschaftsrechte. Unterhaltserwerb,
Lebensweise und Kultur dieser unterstandischen Schichten waren eng
auf einander bezogen, ohne sich jedoch zu determinieren. Selbst die
Teilhabe der breiten Bevolkerung am religiosen Leben und an
profaner Geselligkeit der standischen Gesellschaft war keineswegs
ausgeschlossen. Der Band widmet sich diesen Aspekten der
Volkskultur ebenso wie den unterschiedlichen Lebensraumen und
-formen der unterstandischen Bevolkerung. Er fuhrt ausserdem in die
facettenreiche Forschungsgeschichte des Gegenstandes ein; eine
umfassende, systematisch gegliederte Bibliografie ermoglicht die
eigenstandige weitere Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik.
Entstanden ist so ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel fur Studierende und
Forschende. Robert von Friedeburg ist Professor fur Geschichte an
der Erasmus Universitat in Rotterdam"
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.
This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the
dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early
modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the
course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the
players surviving the power struggles of this period were not
'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties
pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the
consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from
insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for
principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise
and even advancement through new channels that the governing
dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy
Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps
of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the
wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic
agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy.
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.
War die Entflechtung von Religion und Politik das Innovative der
Fruhen Neuzeit? Oder lag im Gegenteil in der neuerlichen Verzahnung
das Charakteristikum jener Zeit? Wenn die Verzahnung von Religion
und Politik das neue Element war, dann stellt sich die Frage, wie
die Reformation im europaischen Blick zu bewerten ist. War sie
traditionales Element oder etwas Neues? Mit dieser Fragestellung
formuliert der Band eine neue Forschungsrichtung, die die
gegenwartige Reformationsgeschichtsschreibung herausfordert. Die
Bewertungsmassstabe des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, die Tradition
ausschliesslich als Opposition der Neuerung verstanden, mussen
revidiert werden. Denn: In der Fruhen Neuzeit galt die innovative
Kraft der Tradition als selbstverstandlich."
This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the
dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early
modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the
course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the
players surviving the power struggles of this period were not
'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties
pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the
consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from
insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for
principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise
and even advancement through new channels that the governing
dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy
Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps
of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the
wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic
agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy.
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