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A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monar

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Angloph

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and beyond. If both parties benefited, rival political theories

"Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. J

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently parti