Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The court of the Spanish Habsburgs: a peculiar institution?
- The magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici: between myth and history
- Political rhetoric and poetic meaning in Renaissance culture: Clément Marot and the Field of Cloth of Gold
- The unlikely Machiavellian: William of Orange and the princely virtues
- The Estates of Brabant to the end of the fifteenth century: the make-up of the assembly
- Presents and pensions: a methodological search and the case study of Count Nils Bielke's prosecution for treason in connection with gratifications from France
- Between Bruni and Machiavelli: history, law and historicism in Poggio Bracciolini
- Constitutional discourse in France, 1527–1549
- Lieuwe van Aitzema: a soured but knowing eye
- John Calvin's contribution to representative government
- Luther and the humanists
- Scholars and ecclesiastical history in the Early Modern period: the influence of Ferdinando Ughelli
- ‘By an Orphean charm’: science and the two cultures in seventeenth-century England
- The crisis of the European mind: Hazard revisited
- Isaac Beeckman and music
- Decadence, shift, cultural changes and the universality of Leonardo da Vinci
- Bibliography of the writings of HELMUT GEORG KOENIGSBERGER
- Index
John Calvin's contribution to representative government
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- The court of the Spanish Habsburgs: a peculiar institution?
- The magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici: between myth and history
- Political rhetoric and poetic meaning in Renaissance culture: Clément Marot and the Field of Cloth of Gold
- The unlikely Machiavellian: William of Orange and the princely virtues
- The Estates of Brabant to the end of the fifteenth century: the make-up of the assembly
- Presents and pensions: a methodological search and the case study of Count Nils Bielke's prosecution for treason in connection with gratifications from France
- Between Bruni and Machiavelli: history, law and historicism in Poggio Bracciolini
- Constitutional discourse in France, 1527–1549
- Lieuwe van Aitzema: a soured but knowing eye
- John Calvin's contribution to representative government
- Luther and the humanists
- Scholars and ecclesiastical history in the Early Modern period: the influence of Ferdinando Ughelli
- ‘By an Orphean charm’: science and the two cultures in seventeenth-century England
- The crisis of the European mind: Hazard revisited
- Isaac Beeckman and music
- Decadence, shift, cultural changes and the universality of Leonardo da Vinci
- Bibliography of the writings of HELMUT GEORG KOENIGSBERGER
- Index
Summary
H. G. Koenigsberger, through his many publications and through his devoted service to the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, has made many important contributions to our knowledge of the forms of representative government in early modern Europe. But most of the institutions to which he has drawn our attention have been subordinate parts of royal governments, helping to govern nations and provinces under the sovereign rule of a king, as the Sicilian and Netherlandish estates in the realms of the Spanish crown. There was, of course, another form of representative government in the period, of similar age and importance. That was the form of government dominated by representative councils that developed in cities, particularly in those parts of Europe in which cities claimed independence of any sovereign lord – such as Italy and Switzerland – or even in those areas in which cities conceded sovereignty to a distant emperor in order to deny it to any local lord – such as the Holy Roman Empire. It is upon this second type of representative government that this chapter concentrates.
This chapter concentrates, furthermore, upon the period of the early sixteenth century, because many of these representative city governments then became intimately involved in the initial stages of the Protestant Reformation with consequences of some importance for their forms of government.
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- Politics and Culture in Early Modern EuropeEssays in Honour of H. G. Koenigsberger, pp. 183 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987
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