1st Edition
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation
Introduction: parliamentarism in the age of absolutism
István M. Szijártó with Wim Blockmans and László Kontler
Comparing Representative Institutions: the historiography and the challenges
Wim Blockmans
Part I: Institutions and political machineries
Chapter 1: The peasant estate of Sweden: its rise and early modern evolution
Joakim Scherp
Chapter 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
Adam Perłakowski
Chapter 3: Instruments of Conviction in the Political Culture of eighteenth-century Hungary
András Forgó
Chapter 4: The Estates in the middle: populist absolutism and constitutionalism in early modern Swedish politics
Joakim Scherp
Part II: Concepts and motivations
Chapter 5: From confession to constitution: the motivation of the Hungarian political elite in the middle of the eighteenth century
István M. Szijártó
Chapter 6: Maria Theresa’s Monarchy: between inheritable merits and remunerable loyalty
Olga Khavanova
Chapter 7: Political ambition: The concept in Montesquieu and in his Hungarian reception, 1748–1848
László Kontler
Chapter 8: Domicilium libertatis or a threat to liberty? Eighteenth-century discussions on the role and place of the Sejm within the system of government of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz
Part III: The eclipse, revival and transformation of estates’ politics
Chapter 9: The growth of political instability and the royal coup in Sweden, c. 1760-1780
Patrik Winton
Chapter 10: Pragmatism triumphant: Hungary's political culture in the age of the French Revolution
Orsolya Szakály
Chapter 11: Role perception in the first modern Hungarian parliament, 1848–1849
György Miru
Biography
István M. Szijártó is a professor in the Department of Economic and Social History at Eötvös University, Hungary.
Wim Blockmans is professor emeritus in Medieval History at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.
László Kontler is a professor in the Department of History at the Central European University, Austria and Hungary.
