Springer has published a new
book, in open access, in its Studies in the History of Law and Justice series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This open access book presents a
comparative analysis of the use of fatherland terminology in a political and
legal context in Jülich, Hesse-Cassel and Brittany from 1642 to 1655.
Fatherland terminology includes words such as patria, patriot and nation. In
historiography, the use of these words by the nobility is often interpreted as
an early sign of nationalism that conflicted with the prince’s initiation of
state-building. The book argues that neither ‘states’ nor ‘nationalism’ truly
existed yet; rather, the political arena was dominated by dynasties. Further,
it rejects the notion of deliberate state-building and demonstrates that the
nobility used this terminology to object to princely politics as part of
adopting a “presupposed office.” This status allowed the nobility to place
itself outside the ruler-subject constellation and critique the situation. The
Duchy of Jülich and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel are used as examples of
small economies of scale with homogenous nobilities, and ones where the Thirty
Year’s War hit hard – which led to the illegal levying of taxes and the
billeting of soldiers, and in turn to the nobility critiquing princely
politics. In contrast, the Duchy of Brittany, with its large economy of scale
and heterogeneous nobility, found an alternative way of pursuing its interests
and keeping taxes as low as possible. The goal of this book is to discuss and
present three representative cases that offer insights into how the nobility
safeguarded the welfare and prosperity of the fatherland and its inhabitants.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Annemieke Romein obtained
her PhD at Erasmus University in 2016 on a comparative study of the political
terminology of the fatherland, patria and patriot in Hessen-Kassel, Gulik and
Bretagne. In 2017 she received an NWO Rubicon grant with which she worked in
Ghent from September 2017 to February 2020 on a project on
political-institutional/legal history, a comparison between the regions of
Flanders and Holland between 1576-1702. She was a Researcher-in-Residence/
project leader of the Digital Humanities “Entangled Histories” project at the
KB National Library of the Netherlands. Since 2020 she is working at Huygens
ING where she continues her research into early modern provincial regulations
with her NWO Veni project ‘A Game of Thrones?’.
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