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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 October 2011
    24 February 1983
    ISBN:
    9780511897146
    9780521090193
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897146
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.31kg, 204 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative reorganisation of European monarchies: the shift in the political centre of gravity from the medieval institution of the chancellery as the secretariat for all government business and authentication to a small group of secretaries, the minister of a later age, acting directly in collaboration with the prince. In the collision between the traditional judicial and administrative pre-eminence of the late medieval chancellor and the new secretaries as expediters of the Renaissance prince's will. Charles gave his support to the latter, thus associating himself with the previous work of Ferdinand the Catholic. Against the background of this struggle with the state secretaries the imperial chancellery is analysing in its relations to the individual chancelleries of Charles V's disparate lands.

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