Book contents
- Luther’s Legacy
- Luther’s Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 Meinecke’s riddle: ‘reason of state’ and Reformation prudence
- 2 Royal rights and princely dynasties in late medieval and early modern Germany, fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries
- 3 Civil order and princely rights, 1450s to 1580s: the making of the elements
- 4 The transformation of ideas on order and the rise of the ‘fatherland’, 1580s to 1630s: the re-ordering of the elements
- 5 The challenge of ‘reason of state’, 1600s to 1650s
- 6 The catastrophe of war and the partial collapse of relations between princes and vassals
- 7 The re-establishing of compromise and the new use of the elements: Seckendorff, Pufendorf and the dissemination of the new concept of ‘state’
- 8 Readings of despotism: the attack on ‘war-despotism’ between Bodin and Montesquieu
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Civil order and princely rights, 1450s to 1580s: the making of the elements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
- Luther’s Legacy
- Luther’s Legacy: The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of ‘State’ in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Book part
- Introduction
- 1 Meinecke’s riddle: ‘reason of state’ and Reformation prudence
- 2 Royal rights and princely dynasties in late medieval and early modern Germany, fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries
- 3 Civil order and princely rights, 1450s to 1580s: the making of the elements
- 4 The transformation of ideas on order and the rise of the ‘fatherland’, 1580s to 1630s: the re-ordering of the elements
- 5 The challenge of ‘reason of state’, 1600s to 1650s
- 6 The catastrophe of war and the partial collapse of relations between princes and vassals
- 7 The re-establishing of compromise and the new use of the elements: Seckendorff, Pufendorf and the dissemination of the new concept of ‘state’
- 8 Readings of despotism: the attack on ‘war-despotism’ between Bodin and Montesquieu
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Luther's LegacyThe Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s, pp. 82 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016