Unions and divisions : new forms of rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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Unions and divisions : new forms of rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
（Themes in medieval and early modern history）
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book uncovers medieval and early modern examples of unions and divisions from western, central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. It provides case studies, especially from central and eastern Europe, giving students a range of accessible examples which they may be unfamiliar with.
Unions and Divisions offers assessments of each union to provide an understanding for students and researchers of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries. It also investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.) and propaganda, in legal and historical discourses. It therefore provides the political as well as the social and cultural implications on these unions.
Provides a comprehensive and engaging account with a variety of topics aimed at upper level students and researchers of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe uncovering how this diplomatic solution was adopted by a range of monarchies in this period.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1. Introduction: Medieval and Renaissance Personal Unions - Main Debates, New Approaches
2. Unions as a Structural Element: Preconditions, Intentions, and Realisations
3. Dynasties and Dynastic Rule between Elite Reproduction and State Building in Europe, 1300-1600
PART II: BETWEEN COERCION AND POLITICAL REASON
4. Dynastic Unions and the Development of Solid and Widespread Christian Polities in Iberia, 1100-1300
5. Angevin Empire: Between Dynastic Construct and Imperial Government
6. On the Genesis of the Polish-Lithuanian Union
7. For the Rescue of the Eastern Policy? The Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the King-dom of Poland and Relations with their Eastern Neighbours 8. Bishop, Administrator, Guardian: Albert of Hoya ( 1473) and His Reign in Minden, Osnabruck and Hoya
PART III: BETWEEN ASPIRATION AND REALITY
9. The Title rex Galiciae between Ambitions and Reality
10. The Union between Hungary and Croatia: Facts and Legends
11. The Lusatias in Personal Union with Brandenburg and Bohemia
12. The Foreign Policy of the Last Premyslids: A First Attempt at Unifying Central Europe?
13. How Did the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order Interpret their Dependence on the Polish Crown (1466-1497)?
14. An Autonomous Dependency? The Unstable Relationship between the Elites in Royal Prussia and the Polish Crown 1466-1569
15. Feoffment as a Tool in the Safeguarding of Power? Dithmarschen between Holsatian and Archi-episcopal Power Claims (1500-1559)
PART IV: BETWEEN COINCIDENCE AND INTENTION
16. Wenceslaus II Premyslid and Louis I of Hungary: Two Personal Unions in the History of the Polish Kingdom in the Fourteenth Century
17. Mary and Maximilian I - Burgundy and Habsburg: Rise of an Empire
18. Albert II of Habsburg's Composite Monarchy and its Significance for Central Europe
19. The Rulers of Poland-Lithuania and the Issue of Church Union from the Late Fourteenth to Early Sixteenth Centuries
20. The Unions between Sleswick, Holsatia and Denmark in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and their Nordic Precursors
PART V: BETWEEN DYNASTIC EXTENSION AND OVERSTRETCHING
21. The Union Wars within the Nordic Kalmar Union, 1448-1523
22. The Policies for and from the Dynastic Union: The Crowns of Castile and Aragon in the Fifteenth Century
23. Corona regni Bohemiae: An Idea of the Luxemburgers and Their Successors for the Integration of Central Europe
24. Towards 'the Danube Monarchy'? The Political Legacy of Emperor Sigismund and its Executors in the Fifteenth Century
25. Jagiellonian Attempts at Creating a Dynastic Great Power between the Baltic and the Black Seas and the Adriatic around 1500
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