Title Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (373 p.) Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: parliamentarism in the age of absolutism -- Riksdag, sejm and diaeta -- Ideas and motivations -- The later decades -- Lessons, further questions and chances for progress -- Comparing representative institutions: the historiography and the challenges -- A grand theory -- The representativity of privileged estates -- New lines of thought: quantification and prosopography -- An activity index -- Towards a general framework PART I: Institutions and political machineries -- 1 The peasant estate of Sweden: its rise and early modern evolution -- The prominence of freeholders -- Local/regional significance -- Military significance (1434-1682) -- Political usefulness and increasing independence (1560-1682) -- Comparison with Denmark -- The estate of the peasants during the Age of Greatness (1617-1718) -- The estate of the peasants during the Age of Liberty (1719-1772) -- Concluding remarks 2 The 'common good' or the particularism of the nobility? The political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the first half of the eighteenth century -- Introduction -- General assumptions governing the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the first half of the eighteenth century -- Main organs of political power in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the sejm -- The main organs of political power in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the senate The main organs of political power in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: sejmiki -- The main organs of political power in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: the king -- The main organs of political power in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: confederations -- Final remarks -- 3 Instruments of conviction in the political culture of eighteenth-century Hungary -- The preparations for the Pragmatica Sanctio -- The passage of the Pragmatica Sanctio in Hungary -- 'arranged spontaneity' Efforts at reform: 'harmful novelties' or attempts at modernisation? -- Summary -- 4 The estates in the middle: populist absolutism and constitutionalism in early modern Swedish politics -- The populist option -- State-of-the-art state-building -- Aristocratic constitutionalism -- Commoner constitutionalism? -- Queen Christina as King Lear -- Peace and war: the trajectory of Caroline absolutism -- Give peace a chance: the forbidden assembly and the Great Northern War -- The commoner founding fathers -- The peasantry's grievances -- The centre holds -- Cooperating organizations Notes Description based upon print version of record Conclusion and discussion Subject Legislative bodies -- Europe, Northern -- History -- 18th century Legislative bodies -- Europe, Central -- History -- 18th century Legislative bodies -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 18th century Form Electronic book Author Blockmans, Wim Kontler, László ISBN 9781000647488 100064748X

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