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Divine right of dynasty: deposing the God-given monarch in protestant Europe
- Abstract:
- In the early modern period, the discourse on divine right of monarchy reached a peak. At the same time, depositions of monarchs by their own subjects increased as well, events which were — in theory — not possible within the political ideology of divine right. This chapter argues that the theory of divine right and the practice of depositions did indeed complement each other when taking a closer look both at the ideas of divinely legimitated monarchy and of the course of events during a deposition. In particular, the role of the dynasty and of the form of government within divine right of monarchy is discussed further and identif ied as central to early modern political thought.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5117/9789463728751_ch02
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- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Host title:
- Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
- Pages:
- 25-44
- Chapter number:
- 2
- Series:
- Early Modern Court Studies
- Place of publication:
- Amsterdam
- Publication date:
- 2023-04-28
- Edition:
- 1
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- EISBN:
- 9789048554034
- ISBN:
- 9789463728751
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English
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1522610
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pubs:1522610
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- Amsterdam University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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