Heirs of Flesh and Paper: A European History of Dynastic Knowledge Around 1700

by Tom Tölle and Tom

"Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects' practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs' premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers' corporeality defined politics. This political order grappled with the endemic uncertainties induced by dynastic bodies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311074452X
• ISBN13: 9783110744521
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"