UID:
almahu_9949420033702882
Format:
1 online resource (xxvi, 365 pages) :
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illustrations, maps.
ISBN:
9781003199007
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1003199003
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9781000685565
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100068556X
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9781000685589
,
1000685586
Series Statement:
Themes in medieval and early modern history
Content:
"Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe, Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the pre-modern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation - even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respective components. The twenty-four essays, ranging in scope from Scandinavia to Iberia, from England and France to Central and Eastern Europe, examine whether the respective unions were the result of careful planning and deliberations in the face of a long-foreseen succession crisis or whether they emerged from dynamic developments that were largely reactive and dependent upon various random factors and circumstances. Each union is assessed to provide an understanding, for students and researchers, of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries and investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.), propaganda and in legal and historical discourses. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the history of monarchy, political history and social and cultural history in premodern Europe"--
Note:
Introduction : Medieval and Renaissance personal unions : main debates, new approaches / Paul Srodecki -- Unions as a structural element : preconditions, intentions, and realisations / Ludwig Steindorff -- Dynasties and dynastic rule between elite reproduction and state building in Europe / Frederik Buylaert, Thalia Brero and Erika Graham-Goering -- Dynastic Unions and the development of stable and extensive Christian polities in Iberia, c. 1100-c. 1300 / Luis García-Guijarro -- The "Angevin Empire" (1150-1204) : a twelfth-century union / S.D. Church -- The emergence of the Polish-Lithuanian union / Rimvydas Petrauskas -- Bishop, administrator, guardian : Albert of Hoya and his reign in Minden, Osnabrück and Hoya / Frederieke Maria Schnack -- The title rex Galiciae between ambitions and reality (c. 1100-c. 1400) / Márta Font -- The union between Hungary and Croatia : myths as reality / Neven Budak -- The Lusatias in personal union with Brandenburg and Bohemia / Norbert Kersken -- The foreign policy of the last Přemyslids : a first attempt at unifying Central Europe? / Robert Antonín -- How did the grand masters of the Teutonic Order interpret their dependency on the Polish Crown (1466-97)? / Adam Szweda -- An autonomous dependency : the unstable relationship between Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown, 1466-1569 / Beata Możejko -- Enfeoffment as a tool in the safeguarding of power? : Dithmarschen between Holsatian and archiepiscopal power claims / Stefan Brenner -- Wenceslas II Přemyslid and Louis I of Anjou : two personal unions of the Polish Kingdom in the fourteenth century / Andrzej Marzec -- Mary and Maximilian, Burgundy and Habsburg : the rise of an empire / Jan Hirschbiegel -- Albert II of Habsburg's composite monarchy (1437-39) and its significance for Central Europe / Julia Burkhardt -- King Ladislas II Jogaila of Poland, Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania and the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church union / Darius Baronas -- The unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and their Nordic precursors / Oliver Auge -- The Nordic union wars, 1451-1523 / Jens E. Olesen -- Policies for and from the dynastic union : the crowns of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth century / María Bonet Donato -- Corona regni bohemiae : the integration of Central Europe as conceived by the Luxemburgs and their successors / Lenka Bobková -- The path towards the "Danube Monarchy"? : the political legacy of Emperor Sigismund and his "executors" in the fifteenth century / Přemysl Bar -- In search of a Jagiellonian Europe : internal and external perceptions of the dynasty and its legacy in East-Central and Eastern Europe / Paul Srodecki.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Unions and divisions Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032057507
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
History.
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.4324/9781003199007
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003199007
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