- Title Pages
- Preface
- Note on Currency and Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Polities at War
- 2 Military Institutions and Fiscal Growth
- 3 Introduction
- 4 Urban Military Resources
- 5 Life During Wartime
- 6 War and Urban Government
- 7 Towns in the Polity
- 8 War, Towns, and the State
- 9 Introduction
- 10 The Military Resources of the Nobility
- 11 Nobles in Command
- 12 Costs and Rewards
- 13 War and Noble Power
- 14 War and Noble Identity
- 15 War, Nobles, and the State
- 16 Introduction
- 17 Obligations
- 18 Information and Response
- 19 The Trials of War
- 20 War and Identity
- 21 War, Subjects, and the State
- War, State, and Society
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.237) 16 Introduction
- Source:
- War, State, and Society in England and the Netherlands 1477-1559
- Author(s):
Steven Gunn (Contributor Webpage)
David Grummitt (Contributor Webpage)
Hans Cools (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter introduces various ways in which rulers in England and the Netherlands were assuming greater powers over their subjects, and the role of war in such developments. Princely ambition was evident in the wider provision of justice and in the regulation of religion in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation; in the use of propaganda to shape public opinion and national identity; and the development of economic and social policy. Some of these trends were more closely related to war than others, but all interacted with it in shaping the relationship between princes and subjects.
Keywords: Counter-Reformation, justice, national identity, propaganda, public opinion, Reformation, social policy, war
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Note on Currency and Conventions
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 Polities at War
- 2 Military Institutions and Fiscal Growth
- 3 Introduction
- 4 Urban Military Resources
- 5 Life During Wartime
- 6 War and Urban Government
- 7 Towns in the Polity
- 8 War, Towns, and the State
- 9 Introduction
- 10 The Military Resources of the Nobility
- 11 Nobles in Command
- 12 Costs and Rewards
- 13 War and Noble Power
- 14 War and Noble Identity
- 15 War, Nobles, and the State
- 16 Introduction
- 17 Obligations
- 18 Information and Response
- 19 The Trials of War
- 20 War and Identity
- 21 War, Subjects, and the State
- War, State, and Society
- Bibliography
- Index
