3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder : Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. 1. Building Dynasties, Shaping States : Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe 7
4. 2. Divine Right of Dynasty : Deposing the God-Given Monarch in Protestant Europe 25
5. 3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder : Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty 45
6. 4. The Austrian Nephews : The Offspring of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria at the Service of the Spanish King 65
7. 5. Sixteen Corpses : The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen 85
8. 6. An Elected Dynasty of Sweden? Blood, Charisma and Representative Monarchy 109
9. 7. Narrowing Dynastic Rule : Models of Governance, Social Conflict and the Hobbesian Bargain in Early Modern Sweden (1560–1718) 135
10. 8. The Nassaus and State Formation in Pre-Modern Germany 165
11. 9. Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe : A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and Three Houses of the Empire 187
12. 10. The Frustrations of Being the Spare : Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society, 1560s–1780s 217
13. 11. Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : Claus Christoffersen Lyschander, Vitus Bering, Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen 251
14. Bibliography 269
15. Index 297