Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587

This book examines the transformation of the elective principle in Transylvania and the newly created Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the early 1570s. These countries insisted on their right to 'free elections', despite the threat to public stability, and this served to transform their institutions and constitutions.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Choosing to Elect


• 2: Campaigning


• 3: Voting


• 4: Contract


• 5: Authority


• Conclusions

About the author

Felicia Rosu is a lecturer in history at Leiden University, where she teaches courses on historiography and early modern European politics, religion, and slavery. Her research so far has focused on the political culture and constitutional history of East Central Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the frontier zone between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.

Summary

This book examines the transformation of the elective principle in Transylvania and the newly created Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the early 1570s. These countries insisted on their right to 'free elections', despite the threat to public stability, and this served to transform their institutions and constitutions.

Additional text

Rosu is to be congratulated, not least for having deepened our understanding of this formidable ruler and the conditions in which he operated.

Product details

• Authors: Rosu, Felicia Rosu, Felicia (University Lecturer Rosu
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780198789376
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878937-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, Poland, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, c 1500 onwards to present day, Lithuania, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours