TY  - BOOK
TI  - The making of polities: Europe, 1300-1500
AU  - Watts, John Lovett
PY  - 2009
PB  - Cambridge University Press
LA  - eng
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Europe
KW  - Political culture ; Europe ; History ; To 1500
KW  - State, The ; History ; To 1500
KW  - Europe ; Politics and government ; 476-1492
AB  - This major survey of political life in late medieval Europe provides a framework for understanding the developments that shaped this turbulent period. Rather than emphasising crisis, decline, disorder or the birth of the modern state, this account centres on the mixed results of political and governmental growth across the continent. The age of the Hundred Years War, schism and revolt was also a time of rapid growth in jurisdiction, taxation and representation, of spreading literacy and evolving political technique. This mixture of state formation and political convulsion lay at the heart of the 'making of polities'. Offering a full introduction to political events and processes from the fourteenth century to the sixteenth, this book combines a broad, comparative account with discussion of individual regions and states, including eastern and northern Europe alongside the more familiar west and south
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SN  - 9780511818479
SN  - 9780521796644
T2  - Cambridge medieval textbooks
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H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
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