Monarchy Transformed

1. Introduction: monarchy transformed - princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe Robert von Friedeburg and John Morrill; Part I. Dynasties and Monarchies: 2. Dynasties, realms, peoples and state formation, 1500-1720 John Morrill; 3. Dynastic monarchy and the consolidation of aristocracy during Europe's long seventeenth-century Hamish Scott; 4. Dynastic instability, the emergence of the French monarchical commonwealth and the coming of the rhetoric of 'L'etat', 1360s to 1650s James Collins; 5. Setting limits to grandeur: preserving the Spanish monarchy in an iron century B. J.Garcia Garcia; 6. The new monarchy in France, the social elites and the society of princes Lucien Bely; Part II. Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy: 7. The King and the family: primogeniture and the Lombard nobility in the Spanish monarchy Antonio Alvarez-Ossorio Alvarino; 8. Portugal's elites and political status within the Spanish monarchy Pedro Cardim; 9. In the service of the dynasty: building a career in the Habsburg household, 1550-1650 Dries Raeymakers; 10. Revolutionary absolutism and the elites of the Danish monarchy in the long seventeenth century Gunner Lind; 11. The 'New Monarchy' as despotic beast: the perspective of the lesser nobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s Robert von Friedeburg; 12. The crisis of sacral monarchy in England in the late seventeenth century in comparative perspective Ronald G. Asch; Afterword. Rethinking the relations of elites and princes in Europe from the 1590s to the 1720s Nicholas Canny.