Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe

Cesare Cuttica, Glenn Burgess

The 14 essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchical governments from the Thirty Years War up until the time of the French Revolution. Contributors aim to unravel the constructs of 'absolutism' and 'monarchism', examining how the power and authority of monarchs was defined through contemporary politics and philosophy.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe, Cesare Cuttica, Glenn Burgess; Chapter 1a A Culture of Political Counsel: The Case of Fourteenth-Century England's 'Virtuous' Monarchy vs Royal Absolutism and Seventeenth-Century Reinterpretations, Janet Coleman; Chapter 2 Royalist Absolutism in the 1650s: The Case of Robert Sheringham, Edward Vallance; Chapter 3 Patriarchalism and the Monarchical Republicans, Gaby Mahlberg; Chapter 4 Cynic Kingship in the German Enlightenment, John Christian Laursen; Chapter 5 Polizey and Patriotism: Joseph von Sonnenfels and the Legitimacy of Enlightened Monarchy in the Gaze of Eighteenth-Century State Sciences, László Kontler; Chapter 6 Absolutism, Patriotism and Publicity in Denmark-Norway in the Eighteenth Century: Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, Andreas Schytte and Frederik Sneedorff, Henrik Horstbøll; Chapter 7 Jansenist Jurisdictionalism and Enlightenment: Two ways of thinking Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Naples, Girolamo Imbruglia; Chapter 8 Early Modern Absolutism in Practice and Theory, Johann P. Sommerville; Chapter 9 An Absolutist Trio in the Early 1630s: Sir Robert Filmer, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Cardin Le Bret and Their Models of Monarchical Power., Cesare Cuttica; Chapter 10 Tyrants, Absolute Kings, Arbitrary Rulers and the Commonwealth of England: Some Reflections on Seventeenth-Century English Political Vocabulary, Glenn Burgess; Chapter 11 'Monstrous' Pufendorf: Sovereignty and System in the Dissertations, Michael Seidler; Chapter 12 Absolute Chaos, Absolute Order: The Rhetoric of the State of Nature in the Discourse of Sovereignty, Ioannis D. Evrigenis; Chapter 13 Bayle on Brutus : A Paradoxical Issue?, Luisa Simonutti; Chapter 14 'More Long-Lasting than Bronze?' Statues, Public Commemoration and Representations of Monarchy in Diderot's Political Thought, Tim Hochstrasser;