John Morrill

Monarchy transformed : princes and their elites in early modern Western Europe

The introduction summarizes the argument of the book Monarchy Transformed: Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe, Cambridge 2017, ed. by Robert von Friedeburg and John Morrill

The ‘New Monarchy’ as Despotic Beast: The Perspective of the Lesser Nobility in France and Germany, 1630s to 1650s

The contributions compares the similarities and differences between the resentments held by members of the lower nobility in France and in German lands against the wars of the period and the critical analysis produced about how these wars had come about. In effect, this common resentment led, under the different circumstances in Germany and in France, to quite anti monarchical resentments in Germany, but to a strong preference of a strong king in France