The Limits of Royal Authority : Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)

MacKay, Ruth

Cambridge University Press（2007/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521033633
• DDC分類 303.309463

Full Description

In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. Whereas there was little open conflict, there was sometimes a surprising degree of autonomy, rights and reciprocity on the part of the king's vassals. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military levies. This opposition took place during a period of crisis, during the 1630s and 1640s, when the Crown's need to raise an army came into conflict with a notion of kingship that was far from absolute. From the king's advisory councils to parliament, from city councils and seigneurial estates, to the most humble villages, Castilians had recourse to a wide range of political and juridictional means with which to dispute the king's claims and avoid conscription.

Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Recruitment and royal authority; 2. Making soldiers of townsmen; 3. War, lords, and vassals; 4. Common claims; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.