Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies - Possibilities, Chances, and Methods: Kritik Am Herrscher in Vormodernen Gesellschaften - Moglichkeiten, Chancen, Methoden
Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies - Possibilities, Chances, and Methods: Kritik Am Herrscher in Vormodernen Gesellschaften - Moglichkeiten, Chancen, Methoden
When looking at pre-modern monarchical societies, one does not expect to observe fundamental dissent directed at the social order as such or at the political system. As a rule, criticism was limited to individual monarchs, their performance and decisions. While discontent could lead to insurrection and rebellion, which normally only culminated in the ruler being replaced by another monarchical figurehead, the subtler methods of voicing criticism were applied within a framework of legality, of a set of customs or of a code ...
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When looking at pre-modern monarchical societies, one does not expect to observe fundamental dissent directed at the social order as such or at the political system. As a rule, criticism was limited to individual monarchs, their performance and decisions. While discontent could lead to insurrection and rebellion, which normally only culminated in the ruler being replaced by another monarchical figurehead, the subtler methods of voicing criticism were applied within a framework of legality, of a set of customs or of a code of rules of the game and intended to improve the performance of the incumbent or reform his conduct at court. The various forms of verbal or staged censure of rulers in pre-modern monarchical societies are the subject of this volume.
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