The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650
Author:   Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781316513149


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
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The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650


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Author:   Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781316513149


ISBN 10:   1316513149
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: politics between principle and pragmatism; 2. Necessity and counter-reformation reason of state; 3. 'The inexhaustible ocean of politics': Tacitus and the political counsel of history; 4. Virgilio Malvezzi and the mosaics of morality and necessity; 5. Experience, conscience and necessity: Spanish debates about peace or truce in the Netherlands; Conclusion.

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Lisa Kattenberg is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2019 and 2022, she was Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation, from which she developed this book, was awarded the Keetje Hodshon Award for the best doctoral thesis in history completed at a Dutch university during the past five years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published broadly in Spanish, English and Dutch.

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