Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy: The Borromeo Brothers of Milan, 1620-1680 0198872593, 9780198872597

Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristocratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France 9781501745737

Ellis persuasively rethinks both images of Boulainvilliers, finding him a controversialist who interpreted French histor

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State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe 9780773564954

State and Status is an examination of the rise of the centralized state and its effect on the power of the aristocracy i

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Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy 9780271091891

With its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place

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The Story of Milan 9781465653215

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The Power of Scripture: Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion 9781800733213

In England, from the Reformation era to the outbreak of the Civil War, religious authority contributed to popular politi

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State and Status: The Rise of the State and Aristocratic Power in Western Europe [1 ed.] 9780773564954, 9780773512269

Arguing that states emerged in Western Europe as powerful political-geographical centres rather than nation-states or na

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Politics and Piety at the Royal Sites of the Spanish Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century (Habsburg Worlds) 9782503591599, 2503591590

Institutions under royal control included not only the king's royal residences and the royal chapels attached to th

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The Society of the Muslim Brothers 9780195084375

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The End of the German Monarchy 9781781556368

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Empires and Entrepots: The Dutch, The Spanish Monarchy and The Jews, 1585-1713 9781472599865, 9781852850227

The confrontation between Spain and the Dutch Republic was a key factor in European and world history. In this collectio

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