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Author Geevers, Elisabeth Marieke, 1979- author.

Title The Spanish Habsburgs and dynastic rule, 1500-1700 / Liesbeth Geevers
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations
Summary "Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty, that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group, that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical narrative, a community of the dead and a ruling family group. These constructions reflect the fact that dynasties do not only exist in the present, as kings, queens, or governors, but also in the past, in genealogies, and in the future, as a group of hypothetical heirs. This book analyses how dynasties were 'made' by the people belonging to it. It uses a social institutionalist framework to analyse how family dynamics gave rise to practices and roles. The kings of Spain only had limited power to control the construction of their dynasty, since births and deaths, processes of dynastic centralisation, pressure from subjects, relatives' individual agency, rivalry among relatives and the institutionalisation of roles limited his power. Including several genealogical tables to support students new to the Spanish Habsburgs, this book is essential reading for all students of early modern Europe and the history of monarchy"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Liesbeth Geevers is an associate professor of history at Lund University, Sweden; she was awarded her PhD at University of Amsterdam (2008); her research interests include dynasties, dynastic identity and diplomacy. She published, among other titles, the volume, Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe: Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities (2015), co-edited with Mirella Marini, and Dynasties and State Formation (2023), co-edited with Harald Gustafsson
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2023)
Subject Habsburg, House of -- History
SUBJECT Habsburg, House of fast
Subject Monarchy -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Monarchy -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY / General
HISTORY / Europe / General
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
Kings and rulers
Kings and rulers -- Succession
Monarchy
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126077
Spain -- Kings and rulers -- Succession
Spain -- Kings and rulers -- History
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023002474
ISBN 9781000909340
9781003309307
1003309305
9781000909364
1000909360
1000909344