The right to «not obey the commands of princes». The Republican Values in early Modern Europe (XVI-XVII century)

  • Eduard Martí Fraga International University of Catalonia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-02-2019pp115-131
Keywords: republicanism, monarchy, Early Modern Europe, constitutionalism, common good

Abstract

Monarchy and republic have become in recent years two words that hide institutional realities more complementary than has usually been thought. Sometimes some monarchies were considered «urban republics» and in other cases, the republics were criticized for being formed by small local absolutists. Beyond the names, it is necessary to think about the values that these political models defended. It is from this perspective that perhaps it can be better understood that in both systems, similar ideas of a similar state were defended with certain frequency, in which the defense of the law and the common good and the government of many persons became fundamental values.

Received: 02 July 2018
Accepted: 05 September 2018
Published online: 27 February 2019

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Author Biography

Eduard Martí Fraga, International University of Catalonia
Eduard Martí is PHD in History by Pompeu Fabra University (2008) and teacher at the International University of Catalonia. He is the author of several books, among them La Conferencia de los Comunes (1697- 1714) (Fundació Ernest Lluch, 2008); La classe dirigent catalana (Pagés editors, 2009) and El Braç Militar de Catalunya, 1602-1714 (University of Valencia, 2016). His lines of research are the history of Catalan and European institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the nobility in modern ages, topics on which he has published numerous articles and book chapters.
Published
2019-02-27
How to Cite
Martí Fraga, Eduard. 2019. “The Right to «not Obey the Commands of princes». The Republican Values in Early Modern Europe (XVI-XVII Century)”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 02 (February), 115-31. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-02-2019pp115-131.
Issue
No. 02 (2019): SPECIAL ISSUE. European identity: roots and scope
Section
Monographic Articles. Roots of European identity. PART 2: «Forging European identity»

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