Book contents
- Monarchy Transformed
- Monarchy Transformed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Monarchy Transformed – Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe
- Part I Dynasties and Monarchies
- 2 Dynasties, Realms, Peoples and State Formation, 1500–1720
- 3 Dynastic Monarchy and the Consolidation of Aristocracy during Europe’s Long Seventeenth Century
- 4 Dynastic Instability, the Emergence of the French Monarchical Commonwealth and the Coming of the Rhetoric of ‘L’état’, 1360s to 1650s
- 5 Setting Limits to Grandeur: Preserving the Spanish Monarchy in an Iron Century
- 6 The New Monarchy in France, the Social Elites and the Society of Princes
- Part II Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy
- Afterword
- Index
5 - Setting Limits to Grandeur: Preserving the Spanish Monarchy in an Iron Century
from Part I - Dynasties and Monarchies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2017
Book contents
- Monarchy Transformed
- Monarchy Transformed
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Monarchy Transformed – Princes and Their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe
- Part I Dynasties and Monarchies
- 2 Dynasties, Realms, Peoples and State Formation, 1500–1720
- 3 Dynastic Monarchy and the Consolidation of Aristocracy during Europe’s Long Seventeenth Century
- 4 Dynastic Instability, the Emergence of the French Monarchical Commonwealth and the Coming of the Rhetoric of ‘L’état’, 1360s to 1650s
- 5 Setting Limits to Grandeur: Preserving the Spanish Monarchy in an Iron Century
- 6 The New Monarchy in France, the Social Elites and the Society of Princes
- Part II Elites, Rhetoric and Monarchy
- Afterword
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Monarchy TransformedPrinces and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe, pp. 127 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017