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Reason of State, Stände, and Estates in German and English Exchanges over the Crisis in the Palatinate, 1618–24

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Abstract

When, in 1619, Frederick V of the Palatinate accepted the crown of Bohemia, he justified his action, which challenged the authority of Emperor Ferdinand II and precipitated the Thirty Years’ War, by the need to uphold the public order, rights, and responsibilities connected to the estates of the empire. English engagements with the German vocabulary of estates drew upon the concept of reason of state—those amoral political calculations needed to maintain a group's estate, or standing. The article examines the significance of these differences in a vocabulary of estates and state.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , Spring 2024 , pp. 215 - 257
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Research and writing were supported by the project Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique (RL-2016-044 Leverhulme Trust Leadership Award) and a mid-career fellowship at the University of Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study. I thank Martin van Gelderen, Tim Stanton, who leads the Leverhulme project, Nicole Reinhardt, Hiram Morgan, Stuart Carroll, Nathaniel Boyd, Ronald Asch, and Christian Kühner, as well as the two reviewers for the journal, for their comments and advice on the subject at hand.

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