The Limits Of Royal Authority: Resistance And Obedience In Seventeenth-century Castile
by Ruth Mackay
2021-05-26 04:14:15
The Limits Of Royal Authority: Resistance And Obedience In Seventeenth-century Castile
by Ruth Mackay
2021-05-26 04:14:15
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. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military l...
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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. This is a study of one such form of resistance: the opposition to military levies in the 1630s and 1640s. The assurance with which such a range of people addressed the crown reveals a society in which a great number of people had a great deal to say about the definition and use of political power.
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