Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587
«This excellent study illuminates the political culture of early modern elective monarchies through the examples of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Transylvanian principality. ... Ros¸u has consulted a very impressive range of archival and printed sources in a variety of languages to provide a clear and authoritative account of complex terrain that will be unfamiliar to many readers.»
Graeme Murdock, European History Quarterly
This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. Les mer
disobedience. There were important variations in their regulation and application, but Transylvania and the newly created Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had one essential thing in common: they were the only two polities in early modern Europe whose political systems secured the succession of their rulers
through large-scale elections in which the dynastic principle, although still important, was not binding.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198789376
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«This excellent study illuminates the political culture of early modern elective monarchies through the examples of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Transylvanian principality. ... Ros¸u has consulted a very impressive range of archival and printed sources in a variety of languages to provide a clear and authoritative account of complex terrain that will be unfamiliar to many readers.»
Graeme Murdock, European History Quarterly
«Rosu is to be congratulated, not least for having deepened our understanding of this formidable ruler and the conditions in which he operated.»
Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Stud