Lordship, Kingship, and Empire: The Idea of Monarchy, 1400-1525

by J.H. Burns

This is a study of the ideology of monarchy in late medieval Europe. In the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, European monarchies faced a series of crises and conflicts, which gave rise to intense debate as to the nature and authority of monarchy in its various forms. From such debates and polemics emerged many of the ideas that were to sustain the later confrontation between "absolutism" and "constitutionalism." Burns examines the ideas generated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198202067
• ISBN13: 9780198202066
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 192 Pages