1st Edition
Crown and Cortes Government, Institutions and Representation in Early Modern Castile
By I.A.A. Thompson
Copyright 1993
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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These studies present various aspects of a long-running enquiry into the development of government, the state and absolutism in early-modern Spain, distinctively based on thorough use of central and local manuscript sources. In the first section, five papers on government and institutions cover the Spanish Council of War under Philip II, the military-administrative bureaucracy of Habsburg Spain,... Read more
Contents: The Armada and administrative reform: the Spanish Council of War in the reign of Philip II; The rule of the law in Early Modern Castile; War and institutionalization : the military administrative bureaucracy of Spain in the 16th and 17th-centuries; The government of Spain in the reign of Philip IV; Absolutism in Castile; Crown and Cortes in Castile 1590-1665; The end of the Cortes of Castile; Cortes, cities and procuradores in Castile; Aristocracy and representative government in unicameral and bicameral institutions: the role of the peers in the Castilian Cortes and the English Parliament, 1529-1664; Glossary; Index.
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I.A.A. Thompson
