Table Of ContentTHE POWER OF NECESSITY
Exploringreasonofstateinaglobalmonarchy,ThePowerofNecessity
examines how thinkers and agents in the Spanish monarchy navi-
gated the tension between political pragmatism and moral-religious
principle.ThistensionliesattheveryheartofCounter-Reformation
reason of state. Nowhere was the need for pragmatic state manage-
ment greater than in the overstretched Spanish empire of the seven-
teenth century. However, pragmatic politics were problematic for a
Catholic monarchy steeped in ideals of justice and divine justifica-
tions of power and kingship. Presenting a broad cast of characters
fromacrossEurope,andunitingpublishedsourceswithawiderange
of archival material, Lisa Kattenberg shows how non-canonical
thinkersandagentsconfrontedthepolitical-moraldilemmasoftheir
age by creatively employing the legitimizing power of necessity.
Pioneering new ways of bridging the persistent gap between theory
andpracticeinthehistoryofpoliticalthought,ThePowerofNecessity
casts fresh light on the struggle to preserve the monarchy in a
modernizingworld.
is Assistant Professor in Early Modern
Intellectual History at the University of Amsterdam. Between
and,shewasResearchFellowinHistoryatGonvilleandCaius
College, University of Cambridge. Her doctoral dissertation, from
which she developed this book, was awarded the Keetje Hodshon
Award for the best doctoral thesis in history completed at a Dutch
university during the past five years by the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has published broadly in
Spanish, Englishand Dutch.
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THE POWER OF NECESSITY
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Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c.
LISA KATTENBERG
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Contents
List of Figures page ix
List of Tables x
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Politics between Principle and Pragmatism
TheStateandItsReason
EarlyModernReasonofState:Interpretations
Monarchy,MoralityandCasuistry
HistorybetweenScholarshipandInformationManagement
Thinker-AgentsandtheCompositeMonarchy
Necessity and Counter-Reformation Reason of State
AwayfromMachiavelli
‘NecessityBreaksEveryHumanLaw’
‘The Inexhaustible Ocean of Politics’: Tacitus and the
Political Counsel of History
‘Tacitism’,ScholarshipandDistance
AnalogyandAuthority
Past,PresentandFuture
Virgilio Malvezzi and the Mosaics of Morality and Necessity
VirgilioMalvezzi:LifeandWork
Morality,CircumstancesandtheMakingofSucesosprincipales
NecessityinAction:TheMissions
Experience, Conscience and Necessity: Spanish Debates
about Peace or Truce in the Netherlands
Negotiations
Experiencia:Learning,RememberingandForgetting
Conciencia:TheConsciousShepherdversusthePragmaticStatesman
Necesidad:HardshipandPracticalSolutions
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Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Figures
. ‘Prudentia’, Crispijn van der Passe, c. – page
. Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, Idea de un principe politico-christiano,
representado en cien empresas (Amsterdam: Janssonius, )
. Virgilio Mavezzi, Il ritratto del privato politico christiano: estratto
dall’originale d’alcune attioni del conte duca di S. Lucar (Bologna:
Giacomo Monti, ), frontispiece after Guido Reni
. Virgilio Malvezzi’s notebook for Sucesos principales del la
monarquia de España, p. []
. Virgilio Malvezzi’s notebook for Sucesos principales del la
monarquia de España, p. []
. Virgilio Malvezzi’s notebook for Sucesos principales del la
monarquia de España, p. []
. ‘Proclamation of the Twelve Years’ Truce in Antwerp, ’,
Simon Frisius, c. –
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