"Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. J

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monar

By the mid-sevententh century several European monarchies were collapsing. Focusing on a key elite bonding strategy, this new survey shows how monarchs resolved

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bu