ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|17 pages
Preliminary Remarks
chapter 2|15 pages
Enterprising Politics or Routine Dealings?
part II|108 pages
Some European Cases
part |51 pages
France
part |34 pages
Italian Republics and Imperial Cities
chapter 6|16 pages
Governing in a Republican State
chapter 7|16 pages
Political Representation and Symbolic Communication in the Early Modern Period
part |20 pages
Scotland
part III|193 pages
The Spanish Monarchy
part |67 pages
The Crown of Aragon: Aragon, Valencia and Sardinia
chapter 12|17 pages
Political Representation in the Kingdom of Sardinia in the Modern Period
part |55 pages
The Crown of Aragon: The Catalan Case
chapter 15|21 pages
The Conferència dels Comuns in Catalonia (1656–1714)
part |49 pages
Castille and the Basque Territories
chapter 16|17 pages
The Multiple Faces of Representation
part |17 pages
Representation in a Polycentric Monarchy of Urban Republics
