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Conclusions on Catherine |
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Dixon |
Catherine ruled by consent as much as compulsion, although that form always was available when exhortation failed. |
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Norbert Elias |
Kingship Mechanism. Vulnerable to charges of crudity, it was among the first to examine the court as the fulcrum of monarchical power. But, court history is unconvincing if structural and functionalist explanations leave the key personalities; namely the monarchs out of the account. Catherine herself, was the key actor on the stage that she built for herself. |
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Dixon 2 |
Offer a unapologetic reassertion of the individual, and especially the ruler, as crucial to the history of early-modern Europe.
The madness of King George showed how far political life in even a limited and constitutional monarchy could be paralysed by the ruler's absence. Rulers made an impact by their presence, it mattered that Rudolf II was a mystic fascinated by the occult, because, his search for an eirenic solution, capable of neutralising the extremes of dogmatic Catholicism and fissiparous Protestantism, was inherently hostile to both and thus helped to destabilise the multi-denominational Habsburg empire. It mattered that Charles I was attracted to Neoplatonism because his interest in the hierarchy of things was symptomatic of a more general obsession with order and hierarchy that paralysed the state, it extended from his daily routine to the determination of political relationships. It is shown how much it mattered that Catherine the Great was committed to the ideals of the European Enlightenment. (Above all other principles) |