Lordship and State Transformation : Bohemia and the Habsburg Fiscal-Financial-Military Regime, 1650-1710 / Stephan Sander-Faes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sander-Faes, Stephan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Lordship and State Transformation examines the role of lordship in the Habsburgs' attempts at state formation from the Thirty Years' War to Charles VI. By foregrounding the interactions of state and non-state actors, the Habsburgs were instrumental in developing early modern composite monarchies.

Contents:

Lordship and state transformation: Bohemia and the Habsburg fiscal-financial-military regime, 1650-1710

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Note on Text, Spelling, and Translations

Abbreviations

Introduction

LINEAGES OF STATE (TRANS)FORMATION

THE STUDY OF STATE FORMATION SINCE 1990

STATE-BUILDING IN CENTRAL EUROPE

RETHINKING STATE TRANSFORMATION: PROBLEMS, PREMISES, AND OBJECTIVES

SOURCES AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACH

CHAPTER OUTLINE AND MAIN HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERVENTIONS

1 Bohemia and the Habsburgs, c. 1450-1700

STATE TRANSFORMATION: HISTORIOGRAPHIC AND CONCEPTUAL PRELIMINARIES

BOHEMIA IN THE EARLY MODERN HABSBURG MONARCHY

BOHEMIAN TRANSFORMATIONS

THE COMPOSITE DOMAINS OF THE EGGENBERG

COMPOSITE LORDSHIP, COMPOSITE STATES

2 Taxing Bohemians: Krumau, 1650-1710

A FISCAL HISTORY OF BOHEMIA, 1650S TO 1710

CONTRIBUTIONS AND TERMINSTEUERN ON THE EGGENBERG DOMAINS, 1657-1701

A TALE OF TWO 'TURKISH WARS'

3 Hall of Mirrors: The Lord's Castle

KRUMAU CASTLE AS PRINCELY RESIDENCE, 1665-1710

COMMUNICATION 'ABOVE' AND 'BELOW' THE LORDSHIP

OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL COMMUNICATION

MOVEABLE TYPES IN PRINCELY SERVICE

4 Manual Transmission: The Seigneurial Administrators

SEIGNEURIAL ADMINISTRATION AS TRANSMISSION BOX

WORK ROUTINES AND CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION

SPECIAL INTERESTS: HOHENFURTH AND GOLDENKRON ABBEYS

GREY ZONES: THE DAUBSKY AFFAIR

5 Ex Officio Disintegration: Finance and Taxation, 1707-11

ENTANGLEMENTS AND ENTRAPMENTS: KRUMAU, VIENNA, PRAGUE, AND WÜRZBURG

'CONFUSION': WINTER 1709 AND SPRING 1710

DEFORMATIONS

6 Sorrows of War: The Hidden Costs of Imperial Ambition

FOREIGN WORDS: ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS AND REPORTS

IN THEIR OWN WORDS: SUPPLICATIONS AND WITNESS TESTIMONIES.

ACCOUNTING FOR THE INDIRECT COSTS OF WAR

Conclusion

Appendix

TOPONYMS IN THE EGGENBERG DOMAINS

Glossary of Select Key Terms

Notes

Bibliography

ARCHIVAL SOURCES

PUBLISHED

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780228023357

0228023351

9780228023340

0228023343