The Limits of Royal Authority
Resistance and Obedience in Seventeenth-Century Castile
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ISBN-13:
9780521033633
Veröffentl:
2006
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.12.2006
Seiten:
212
Autor:
Ruth Mackay
Gewicht:
352 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Recruitment and royal authority; 2. Making soldiers of townsmen; 3. War, lords, and vassals; 4. Common claims; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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