1st Edition
Political Representation in the Ancien Régime
What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; parliaments and municipalities), from various European territories and finally from a connected and comparative perspective.
The aim is twofold: analyse the different mechanisms of political representation before Liberalism, their strengths and limitations; value the processes of oligarchisation and the possible mismatch between a libertarian model and a reality which was far from its idealised image.
1. Introduction
Joaquim Albareda and Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Part I: Preliminary Remarks
2. Enterprising Politics or Routine Dealings?: Political Participation in Europe Before 1800
Wim Blockmans
Part II: Some European Cases
France
3. Political Representation in Languedoc Under the Ancien Régime
Gilbert Larguier
4. Representation: Political Foundations of the French Province, 15th-18th Century
Marie-Laure Legay
5. The Administration of French Villages by Their Inhabitants in the Modern Age
Antoine Follain
Italian Republics and Imperial Cities
6. Governing in a Republican State: A Case Study of Genoa from Medieval to Modern Times
Carlo Bitossi
7. Political Representation and Symbolic Communication in the Early Modern Period: The Imperial Cities of the Holy Roman Empire
Thomas Weller
Scotland
8. Representation in the Scottish Parliament to 1707 and Scottish Representation in the Parliament of Great Britain to the 1832 Reform Act
John R. Young
Part III: The Spanish Monarchy
The Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Valencia and Sardinia)
9. Constitution and Political Representation in the Crown of Aragon
Tomàs de Montagut
10. Political Representation in the Kingdom of Aragon During the Ancien Régime
Gregorio Colás Latorre
11. Political Representation in the Kingdom of Valencia During the Modern Period (16th-18th Century)
Carmen Pérez Aparicio
12. Political Representation in the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Modern Period: Entry in Force and Retrospection on the Pact-Based Culture
Lluis J. Guia Marín
The Catalan Case
13. Political Participation in Catalonia: From Zenith to Suppression
Joaquim Albareda
14. The Configuration of the Tribunal de Contrafaccions of Catalonia in the Corts of 1701-1702
Josep Capdeferro
15. The Conferència dels Comuns in Catalonia (1656-1714): A New Form of Representation and Political Participation
Eduard Martí
Castille and the Basque Territories
16. The Multiple Faces of Representation: Kingdom, Cortes and Estates in the Crown of Castile Under the Habsburgs
José Ignacio Fortea Pérez
17. Municipal Representation in the Crown of Castile in the Early Modern Age
José Manuel de Bernardo Ares
18. Political Participation and Representation in the Basque Country
Susana Truchuelo
Representation in a Polycentric Monarchy of Urban Republics
19. Urban Republicanism and Political Representation in the Spanish Monarchy
Manuel Herrero Sánchez
Biography
Joaquim Albareda is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville.