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Empowering Interactions

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Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

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Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900
ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 6 May 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579375
Pages 372
eBook ISBN 9781315579375
Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Blockmans, W., & Schläppi, D. (2009). Empowering Interactions: Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900 (A. Holenstein, Ed.) (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579375

ABSTRACT

The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an approach does not provide a complete picture. By investigating the importance of local and individual initiatives that contributed to state building from the late middle ages through to the nineteenth century, this volume shows how popular pressure could influence those in power to develop new institutional structures. By not privileging the role of warfare and of elite coercion for state building, it is possible to question the traditional top-down model and explore the degree to which central agencies might have been more important for state representation than for state practice. The studies included in this collection treat many parts of Europe and deal with different phases in the period between the late middle ages and the nineteenth century. Beginning with a critical review of state historiography, the introduction then sets out the concept of 'empowering interactions' which is then explored in the subsequent case studies and a number of historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays. Taken as a whole this collection provides a fascinating platform to reconsider the relationships between top-down and bottom-up processes in the history of the European state.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |32 pages

Introduction: Empowering Interactions: Looking at Statebuilding from Below

ByAndré Holenstein

part |2 pages

Part I SOUTHERN EUROPE

chapter 1|16 pages

The Construction of Local Political Identity in Lake and River Communities in North-West Italy, Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries

ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein

chapter 2|14 pages

Models of Government ‘from Below’ in Fifteenth-Century Lombardy. The ‘Capitoli di Dedizione’ to Francesco Sforza, 1447−1450

ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein

chapter 3|14 pages

Local Conflicts and Political Authorities in the Papal State in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

ByBertrand Forclaz

chapter 4|12 pages

The Politics of Mercy: Village Petitions and a Noblewoman’s Justice in the Roman Countryside in the Eighteenth Century

ByCaroline Castiglione

chapter 5|8 pages

The Dynamics of Law Formation in Italian Legal Science during the Early Modern Period: the Function of Custom

ByRoy Garré

part |2 pages

Part II CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

chapter 6|14 pages

Threats from Above on Request from Below: Dynamics of the Territorial Administration of Berne, 1420–1450

BySimon Teuscher

chapter 7|16 pages

Modes of Reading, Community Practice and the Constitution of Textual Authority in the Thurgau and Graubünden, 1520−1660

ByRandolph C. Head

chapter 8|18 pages

‘God is high up, the Tsar is far away’. The Nature of Polity and Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century Russia. A Comparative View

ByEndre Sashalmi

chapter 9|14 pages

Communication between Authorities and Subjects in Bohemia, Hungary and the Holy German Empire, 1650−1800: A Comparison of Three Case Studies

ByStefan Brakensiek

chapter 10|10 pages

Corporate Property, Collective Resources and Statebuilding in Older Swiss History

ByDaniel Schläppi

chapter 11|14 pages

Local Demand for Order and Government Intervention: Social Group Conflicts as Statebuilding Factors in Villages of the Rhine Palatinate, c.1760−1810

ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein

chapter 12|16 pages

Joseph-Samuel Farinet and the ‘Modern’ State: Banditry, Patronage and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Valais

BySandro Guzzi-Heeb

part |2 pages

Part III NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE − AND BEYOND

chapter 13|14 pages

Political Topos or Community Principle? Res Publica as a Source of Legitimacy in the French Peasants’ Revolts of the Late Middle Ages

ByLate Middle Ages Vincent Challet

chapter 14|16 pages

Statebuilding in Portugal during the Middle Ages: A Royal Endeavour in Partnership with the Local Powers?

ByAdelaide Millán da Costa

chapter 15|18 pages

Informing the Council. Central Institutions and Local Knowledge in the Spanish Empire

ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein

chapter 16|14 pages

Peasants and Tax-farmers in Seventeenth-Century Sweden: Local Conflict and Institutional Change

ByMats Hallenberg

chapter 17|12 pages

Statebuilding with the Participation of the Estates? East Frisia between Territorial Legislation and Communalist Ritual, 1611–1744

ByReemda Tieben

part |2 pages

Part IV HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND CONCEPTUAL DEBATES

chapter 18|12 pages

Citizens and their Rulers

ByWim Blockmans

chapter 19|6 pages

Concepts and Approaches in Recent Scholarship on Statebuilding – A Critical Review

ByPeter Blickle

chapter 20|6 pages

No Statebuilding from Below! A Critical Commentary

ByWolfgang Reinhard

chapter 21|8 pages

Statebuilding from Below – Towards a Balanced View

ByJon Mathieu

chapter 22|6 pages

The Impact of Communication Theory on the Analysis of the Early Modern Statebuilding Processes

ByWim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi, André Holenstein

chapter 23|8 pages

Empowering Interactions and Intertwining Jurisdictions

ByAngelo Torre
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