Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe

Table of Contents\n1. Building Dynasties, Shaping States : Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe\n2. Divine Right of Dynasty : Deposing the God-Given Monarch in Protestant Europe\n3. Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder : Proximity and the Creation of Dynasty\n4. The Austrian Nephews : The Offspring of Maximilian II and Maria of Austria at the Service of the Spanish King\n5. Sixteen Corpses : The First Reburials in the Escorial in 1586 and the Dynastic Dynamics that Made Them Happen\n6. An Elected Dynasty of Sweden? Blood, Charisma and Representative Monarchy\n7. Narrowing Dynastic Rule : Models of Governance, Social Conflict and the Hobbesian Bargain in Early Modern Sweden (1560–1718)\n8. The Nassaus and State Formation in Pre-Modern Germany\n9. Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe : A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and Three Houses of the Empire\n10. The Frustrations of Being the Spare : Second Sons in the French Monarchy and their Increasingly Limited Roles in Politics and Society, 1560s–1780s\n11. Danish Dynastic Histories in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries : Claus Christoffersen Lyschander, Vitus Bering, Ludvig Holberg and Hans Peter Anchersen\nBibliography\nIndex