Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (C. 1200 - C. 1690)

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35241-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

Reihe: Later Medieval Europe

Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690), a scholarly collection on representation in medieval and early modern Europe, opens up the field of institutional and parliamentary history to new paradigms of representation across a wide geography and chronology – as testified by the volume’s studies on assemblies ranging from Burgundy and Brabant to Ireland and Italy. The focus is on three areas: institutional developments of representative institutions in Western Europe; the composition of these institutions concerning interest groups and individual participants; and the ideological environment of representatives in time and space. By analysing the balance between bottom-up and top-down approaches to the functioning of institutions of representation; by studying the actors behind the representative institutions linking prosopographical research with changes in political dialogue; and by exploring the ideological world of representation, this volume makes a key contribution to the historiography of pre-modern government and political culture.

Contributors are María Asenjo-González, Wim Blockmans, Mario Damen, Coleman A. Dennehy, Jan Dumolyn, Marco Gentile, David Grummitt, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Alastair J. Mann, Tim Neu, Ida Nijenhuis, Michael Penman, Graeme Small, Robert Stein and Marie Van Eeckenrode.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Damen, Mario

Haemers, Jelle

Mann, Alastair J.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Contributors and Editors

An Introduction: Political Representation Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200–c. 1650)

Mario Damen, Jelle Haemers and Alastair J. Mann

Part 1: Top-down or Bottom-up? Princes, Communities and Representation

1Assemblies of Estates and Parliamentarism in Late Medieval Europe

Peter Hoppenbrouwers

2Political Representation and the Fiscal State in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile

María Asenjo-González

3Forms of Political Representation in Late Medieval Northern Italy: Merits and Shortcomings of the City-State Paradigm (14th–early 16th Century)

Marco Gentile

4Representation in Later Medieval and Early Modern Ireland

Coleman A. Dennehy

5Speaking in the Name of: Collective Action, Claim-making, and the Development of Pre-modern Representative Institutions

Tim Neu

Part 2: Prelates, Nobles and Patricians: The Composition of the Representative Institutions

6“The King wishes and commands?” Reassessing Representative Assembly in Scotland, c.1286–1329

Michael Penman

7Officers of State and Representation in the Pre-modern Scottish Parliament

Alastair J. Mann

8The Nobility in the Estates of the Late Medieval Duchy of Brabant

Mario Damen

9Representation by Numbers: How Attendance and Experience Helped Holland to Control the Dutch States General (1626–1630)

Ida Nijenhuis

Part 3: Controlling the State: Ideas and Discourses

10The Antwerp Clerk Jan van Boendale and the Creation of a Brabantine Ideology

Robert Stein

11Rituals of Unanimity and Balance: Deliberation in 15th- to 16th-century Hainaut: A Fool’s Game?

Marie Van Eeckenrode

12Speech Acts and Political Communication in the Estates-General of Valois and Habsburg Burgundy c. 1370–1530: Towards a Shared Political Language

Jan Dumolyn and Graeme Small

13Parliament, War and the “Public Sphere” in Late Medieval England: The Experience of Lancastrian Kent

David Grummitt

14Who has a Say? The Conditions for the Emergence and Maintenance of Political Participation in Europe before 1800

Wim Blockmans

Conclusion: Reconsidering Political Representation in Europe, 1400–1700

Selective Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Mario Damen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He is especially interested in social, political and cultural history of the late medieval Low Countries and the princes, nobles and administrative elites of the Burgundian and Habsburg composite state. His publications include Prelaten, edelen en steden. De samenstelling van de Staten van Brabant in de vijftiende eeuw (2016) and ‘The knighthood in and around fifteenth century Brussels’, Journal of Medieval History 43, (2017).
Dr Jelle Haemers is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). Apart from urban history his research interests encompass social and political conflicts in the late medieval town, notably in the Low Countries (1100-1550). Among others he published For the Common Good. State Power and Urban Revolts in the Reign of Mary of Burgundy, 1477-1482 (2009).
Dr Alastair Mann is Senior Lecturer at Stirling University, Scotland. He researches parliamentary history, the Restoration, and book history. He is co-editor of The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (2008-) and author of the biography James VII: duke and king of Scots (2014).