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The Power of Kings.(Review) (book review)

History Today,  May, 2000  by Beddard, R.A.

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The Power of Kings

Monarchy and Religion in Europe 1589-1715 Paul Kleber Monod Yale University Press 417 pp 22.50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-300-07810-2

THE PRINCE IS THE LIFE, the head, and authority of everything that be done in the realm of England': so wrote Sir Thomas Smith, secretary of state to Elizabeth I, in his treatise De Republica Anglorum. Few of his contemporaries would have quibbled with his judgement, for Christian Europe between the Italian Renaissance and French Revolution was the great age of personal monarchy.

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