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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 September 2009
      06 May 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511549397
      9780521643436
      9780521033633
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549397
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.465kg, 210 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.324kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    In what is sometimes called the age of absolutism, Castilian nobles and commoners, tribunes and towns, were to a considerable degree able to resist and shape royal commands. Whereas there was little open conflict, there was sometimes a surprising degree of autonomy, rights and reciprocity on the part of the king's vassals. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military levies. This opposition took place during a period of crisis, during the 1630s and 1640s, when the Crown's need to raise an army came into conflict with a notion of kingship that was far from absolute. From the king's advisory councils to parliament, from city councils and seigneurial estates, to the most humble villages, Castilians had recourse to a wide range of political and juridictional means with which to dispute the king's claims and avoid conscription.

    Awards

    Winner, 2000 Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association

    Reviews

    ‘Mackay has put together a very interesting study that addresses some of the most important historical and historiographical themes arising from the situation of Castile and the Spanish monarchy during the central decades of the seventeenth century.’

    Source: Journal of Modern History

    ‘… excellent little study.’

    Source: History

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