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LA HUELLA DEL ROSELLÓN EN ESPAÑA
El Rosellón fue un condado visigodo que formó parte de la Marca Hispánica Carolingia. Con posterioridad perteneció a la Corona de Aragón y a la Monarquía Hispánica hasta que se perdió a consecuencia de la rebelión ocurrida en tierras de Cataluña en 1640. Lamentable pérdida que sucedió en tiempos del Conde Duque de Olivares reinando Felipe IV, cuando Pau Claris, Tamarit y otros dirigentes de la secesión hicieron posible que el Rey Luis XIII de Francia se convirtiera en Conde de Barcelona. Su recuerdo permanece en España donde el Rey ostenta entre sus títulos históricos el de Conde del Rosellón. En Lérida un ayuntamiento lleva el nombre Roselló y en Castellón el de Rosell. Zaragoza, Barcelona, Palma y otras localidades tienen una calle del Rosellón, y muchos españoles llevan por apellido las distintas variantes de Rosell o Roselló.
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Monarchy
\"A book for middle school students about the history of the monarchy as a political system\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sacral kingship between disenchantment and re-enchantment
France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.
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The Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy 1665-1700
For too long the history of seventeenth-century Spain has been dismissed as a story of imperial decline after the achievement of the sixteenth century. Resilience of the Spanish monarchy presents a fresh appraisal of the survival of Spain and its European and overseas empire under the last Spanish Habsburg, Carlos II (1665–1700). Hitherto it has largely been assumed that in the ‘Age of Louis XIV’ Spain collapsed as a military and naval power, and only retained its empire because states which had hitherto opposed Spanish hegemony came to its aid. Spain's allies did play a role, but this view seriously underestimates the efforts of Carlos II and his ministers to find men for Spain's various armies – in Flanders, Lombardy and Catalonia – and to ensure a continued naval presence in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. These commitments were costly, adding to the fiscal pressure upon Carlos's subjects, and to political tensions within the monarchy, but Spain managed the burden of imperial defence more successfully than has been acknowledged. This was due to various factors, including the continued contribution of Castile and American silver, some administrative development, and the contribution of both the non-Castilian territories within Spain and the non-Spanish territories within Europe, such as Naples. This book revises our understanding of the last decades of Habsburg Spain, which is shown to have been a state and society more committed to the retention of empire and more successful in doing so than a preoccupation with the ‘decline of Spain’ has recognised.
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European Monarchies from 1814 to 1906 : a century of restorations
The year 2014 sees the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's downfall - and the restauration of the French monarchy under the house of Bourbon. With this as a starting point, Volker Sellin shows how the European monarchies restored and prolonged their reigns by giving their countries constitutions. This new angle results in an astonishing history of the 19th century in Europe from Spain to Russia.
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Rebranding Rule
In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell's interregnum and Charles II's restoration, and how the irrevocably changed cultural landscape was navigated by the sometimes astute yet equally fallible Stuart monarchs and their successors.
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Forgotten queens in medieval and early modern Europe : political agency, myth-making, and patronage
\"Forgotten Queens in Medieval and Early Modern Europe examines queens dowager and queens consort who have disappeared from history or have been deeply misunderstood in modern historical treatment. Divided into eleven chapters, this book covers queenship from 1016 to 1800, demonstrating the influence of queens in different aspects of monarchy over eight centuries and furthering our knowledge of the roles and challenges that they faced. It is ideal for students and scholars of pre-modern queenship and of medieval and early modern history courses more generally.\"--Provided by publisher.
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