2016-10-27
Reason of State and Predatory Monarchy in the Dutch Republic, 1638‐1675 : The Legacy of the Duc de Rohan
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Staatsraison en Roofzuchtige Monarchie in de Nederlandse Republiek, 1638‐1675 : De erfenis van Duc de Rohan
The purpose of this thesis is to explore changes in understandings of ‘interest’ and ‘reason of state’; not as abstract and coherent theories about modernisation and a secularised conception of the political, but as responses to very practical and immediate political problems, challenges and crises, producing quite unintended consequences.
It does so through the adaptive reference to and reliance upon Henri Duc de Rohan who provided, as it is argued, a vocabulary organised into a way of seeing the political world that was itself stimulated and constrained by a perceived crisis, both national and ‘international’, secular as well as religious.
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R.C.F. von Friedeburg (Robert) , C. Condren (Conal) | |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | |
This research was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The study is part of a larger research project ‘Reason of state’ or ‘reason of princes’? The ‘new monarchy and its opponents in France, Germany and the Netherlands, during the seventeenth century (2011‐2016) | |
hdl.handle.net/1765/93816 | |
Organisation | Department of History |
Klerk, M. (2016, October 27). Reason of State and Predatory Monarchy in the Dutch Republic, 1638‐1675 : The Legacy of the Duc de Rohan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/93816 |