Dynastic Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Fichtner, Paula Sutter

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“…Since primogeniture is also the basis for dynastic unions of territory, we might expect it to lower fragmentation (Sharma 2015, 169;Teschke 2003, 225). In contrast, other scholars emphasize that such unions, and therefore primogeniture, did not consolidate territorial gains (Bonner 2003;Fichtner 1976;Joseph 2015;Sharp 2001;Wilson 2016, 436). 30 Second, the rise of communes from the late eleventh century to the twelfth century would prevent rulers from establishing and centralizing territorial authority (Abramson 2017;Rokkan 1975;Tilly 1992;Tilly and Blockmans 1994;Wickham 2015;.…”

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Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation

Grzymała-Busse

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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The starting point for many analyses of European state development is the historical fragmentation of territorial authority. The dominant bellicist explanation for state formation argues that this fragmentation was an unintended consequence of imperial collapse, and that warfare in the early modern era overcame fragmentation by winnowing out small polities and consolidating strong states. Using new data on papal conflict and religious institutions, I show instead that political fragmentation was the outcome of deliberate choices, that it is closely associated with papal conflict, and that political fragmentation persisted for longer than the bellicist explanations would predict. The medieval Catholic Church deliberately and effectively splintered political power in Europe by forming temporal alliances, funding proxy wars, launching crusades, and advancing ideology to ensure its autonomy and power. The roots of European state formation are thus more religious, older, and intentional than often assumed.

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Section: Alternative Religious Explanationsmentioning

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Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation

Grzymała-Busse

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…35 See Conklin, 1998. 36 For a description of the role of the Catholic Church in the politics of the time, see Vallier, 1971 37 For an illustration of the Spanish diplomatic network, see Fichtner, 1976. 38 See Trevor-Roper, 1970and Parker, 1998 In addition to being well-funded, the Spanish military benefited from the early adoption of technical and tactical improvements.…”

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Sustaining Global Leadership

2023

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“…While Bourdieu conceives of marriage as a mechanism that allows men to accumulate women's symbolic capital (2001: 43), marriage diplomacy was a more complicated practice of gendered exchange. For example, Fichtner (1976) demonstrates that marriage was fundamental to Habsburg diplomacy. The Habsburgs mainly pursued marriages within diplomatic spheres of interest, such as Poland and Bavaria, illustrating that marriages were less a matter of preference than politics.…”

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Gendering the practice turn in diplomacy

Standfield

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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International Relations has developed an exciting new research agenda on diplomatic practice, drawing largely on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. However, it largely ignores Bourdieu’s theory of patriarchy, as well as extensive feminist Bourdieusian analysis. These are analytical tools that can be used to understand how diplomacy reproduces itself as a masculinized field. They are ‘practice theory’ as well and should be incorporated into our research on diplomatic practice. My aims here are to recover feminist practice theory for a diplomatic studies audience and to indicate how we can develop an interdisciplinary research agenda on gender and diplomacy. The first part of the article provides an overview of practice theory in diplomatic studies and discusses Bourdieu’s overlooked contributions regarding gender. I then use Bourdieu’s ‘thinking tools’ of field, habitus and practice to examine diplomacy and gender using examples drawn from the literature, as well as from some primary sources. Throughout, I show how feminist sociologists have developed his ideas to create sophisticated approaches to studying the persistence of patriarchy. This does not capture all the ways in which diplomacy is gendered, but these tools reveal the limitations in our current understanding of diplomatic practices. I conclude with suggestions for future interdisciplinary research that takes gender seriously.

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Dynastic Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation

Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation

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Gendering the practice turn in diplomacy

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