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Dynastic Change
Author | : Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2019-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351035125 |
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Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.
The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Daniel H. Nexon |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781400830800 |
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Scholars have long argued over whether the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended more than a century of religious conflict arising from the Protestant Reformations, inaugurated the modern sovereign-state system. But they largely ignore a more fundamental question: why did the emergence of new forms of religious heterodoxy during the Reformations spark such violent upheaval and nearly topple the old political order? In this book, Daniel Nexon demonstrates that the answer lies in understanding how the mobilization of transnational religious movements intersects with--and can destabilize--imperial forms of rule. Taking a fresh look at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War--Nexon argues that early modern "composite" political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states, and introduces a theory of imperial dynamics that explains how religious movements altered Europe's balance of power. He shows how the Reformations gave rise to crosscutting religious networks that undermined the ability of early modern European rulers to divide and contain local resistance to their authority. In doing so, the Reformations produced a series of crises in the European order and crippled the Habsburg bid for hegemony. Nexon's account of these processes provides a theoretical and analytic framework that not only challenges the way international relations scholars think about state formation and international change, but enables us to better understand global politics today.
The Social Impacts of Climate Change in China over the Past 2000 Years
Author | : Xiuqi Fang |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789819702022 |
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The East Asian World System
Author | : Eugene N. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030168727 |
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This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century and offering a comparative perspective on East Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea, it describes the historical evolution of the East Asian world-system as being the result of good or poor management of the respective populations and environments. Lastly, the book discusses how the East Asian regions have become integrated into a single world-system by a combination of trade, commerce, and military action. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, political science and environmental studies, and to anyone interested in learning about the effects of climate change on the dynamic development of societies.
Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
Author | : David Der-wei Wang,Shang Wei |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781684174140 |
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"This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550–1644) and late Qing (1851–1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the “premodernity” of the late Ming and late Qing in the context of the end of the age of modernism. The chapters touch on a remarkably wide spectrum of works, some never before discussed in English, such as poetry, drama, full-length novels, short stories, tanci narratives, newspaper articles, miscellanies, sketches, familiar essays, and public and private historical accounts. More important, they intersect on issues ranging from testimony about dynastic decline to the negotiation of authorial subjectivity, from the introduction of cultural technology to the renewal of literary convention."
The Ancestors Instructions Must Not Change Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period
Author | : Xiaonan Deng |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2021-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004473270 |
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This book offers an account of how ‘ancestors’ instructions’ were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse of ancestors’ instructions.
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
Author | : Jeroen Duindam,Tülay Artan,Metin Kunt |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789004206229 |
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This volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm.
The East Asian World System
Author | : Eugene N. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783030168704 |
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This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology. By studying the history of East Asia until the beginning of the 20th century and offering a comparative perspective on East Asian countries, including China, Japan and Korea, it describes the historical evolution of the East Asian world-system as being the result of good or poor management of the respective populations and environments. Lastly, the book discusses how the East Asian regions have become integrated into a single world-system by a combination of trade, commerce, and military action. Given its scope, the book will appeal to scholars of history, sociology, political science and environmental studies, and to anyone interested in learning about the effects of climate change on the dynamic development of societies.