The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668–1669) by Rafaella Pillo

“… The essay aims at touching different aspects of Spanish policy during the regency of Mariana (1665–1675), the interest in the political and physical weakness of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and future King Charles II, the last Hapsburg on the Spanish monarchy. At that time, Madrid’s fate was mainly in the hands of three men: the Austrian Jesuit Nithard, the Count of Pötting, and the Apostolic nuncio, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo. …”
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The Death of Jaromír Czernin 1908 by Michal Jirman

“… This article evaluates the death and funeral culture in the high aristocratic society of the Habsburg monarchy at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the illness and death of the mostly forgotten Count Jaromír Czernin (1818–1908). …”
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Šlechtický fideikomis v Čechách 19. století (na příkladu hrabat z Althannu) by Marie Macková

“…Concerning the legal environment of the Habsburg monarchy, it appeared in the second half of the 17th century and was only abolished in 1924. …”
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The Transatlantic Political Economy by Allan Potofsky

“…On both sides of the Atlantic, a desire to deepen economic ties between the two « regenerated » nations was kindled by the ideological potentials of republicanism in the United States and of the « reform monarchy » at the end of the ancien régime and opening years of the Revolution.This article examines an overlooked element in the « master narrative » of historians who have focused on the degradation of the political and economic ties between the two nations after 1787 : the American financial debt toward France grew in significance with the awareness of the proportions of the deficit of the French state. …”
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¿Representar la legitimidad? Objetos, símbolos y comunicación en las ceremonias públicas del reinado de Fernando I de Aragón by Víctor Muñoz Gómez

“…This purpose is based on the study of the main public ceremonies that were led by the monarch during his brief reign (1412-1416), prominently royal entries in the major cities in the Aragonese monarchy and Coronation festivities at Zaragoza in February 1414.…”
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El aljibe del conde de Tendilla by Daniel Jesús Quesada Morales

“…This nobleman became one of the ideologists of the significant change that the Nasrid palatine area underwent in relation to the role it played in the framework of the new monarchy.…”
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Le régime rentier d’accumulation en Arabie saoudite et son mode de régulation by Adrien Faudot

“…The predominance of oil revenues, combined with socio-political parameters specific to the countries, has led the Petro-monarchy to implement a particular set of economic policies, which are analyzed here as the mode of regulation of the oil-rent-caused growth regime, rather than as gradual attempts to restrict the country’s dependence on oil. …”
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Contra los «vicios y corruptelas» del foro tradicional, el funcionario militar by Alina Castellanos Rubio

“…However, they had to contend with the presence of an archetypal civil servant inherited from the Ancien Régime, the iudex perfectus or perfect judge of the traditional monarchy. This article aims to show that the traditional archetype of the iudex perfectus was gradually replaced in liberal political culture by the model of the military officer as a good administrator and thus capable of personifying the virtues hitherto associated with the 'perfect judge' as the embodiment of the institutions of government: fitness, morality and public concept – to which constitutionalism added adherence to the constitution. …”
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Représenter le crime : permanences et inflexions (France, xixe siècle) by Dominique Kalifa

“…In France, the July Monarchy (1830-1848) was a crucial moment in which representations, figures and renewed interpretations of this phenomenon converged. …”
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« The Fault is that she is my wife » : L’ambivalence des représentations d’Henriette-Marie (1625-1649) by Alice Leroy

“…While her very presence reinforced the trope of Charles I as husband to the nation and father to his people, she also became a source of anxiety at a period when popery and the very institution of the monarchy came under violent attack from a part of the English people.…”
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Rousseau i nowożytne spotkanie z Innym by Sylwester Zielka

“…., the “primitive” people living in the state of nature as free and equal, without concerns and inconveniences of civilization, is contrasted with an opposite project of a “degenerate savage” of Thomas Hobbes, who used it as a justification for absolute monarchy in European countries and of European societies over non-Western ones. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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La représentation du genre au XIXe siècle. Masculinités dans le couple royal et la biographie de François d’Assise de Bourbon by Félix Colás Loricera

“…The royal couple formed by Isabel II and Francis of Assisi is particularly interesting because of the external and internal dynamics that marked a peculiar development that, in several aspects, marked the future of the Spanish monarchy and society. The internal dynamics are defined by the "inversion" of roles represented by the fact that Isabel was the monarch and Francis the consort, as well as by the dissident personalities of both. …”
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El linaje catalán Queralt-Timor y su relación con la Orden del Temple (siglos XII-XIV) by Joan Fuguet Sans, Carme Plaza Arqué

“…They were all professional warriors and took an active part in the conquests which the monarchy carried out in the thirteenth century. But in addition, the Queralt family developed a continuous matrimonial policy which linked it by marriage to the different main lineages of the country, also connected to the Temple: Castellnou, Anglesola, Rocaberti… This article is particularly interested in the life and activities of these individuals with the intention of re-evaluating their contribution and giving them the place they deserve in the history of the Temple.…”
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« Qu’avez-vous fait de vos vingt ans ? » Militantismes marocains du 23-mars (1965) au 20 février (2011) by Frédéric Vairel

“…In other words, regardless of the radical posture claimed by members of the movement - or coined by their critics in an attempt to delegitimize them - the issue of mobilization and public controversy was nothing more than the reform of the monarchy. Political parties and unions offered only limited support to mobilization, when they did not oppose it : the 2011 demonstrations were an accurate indicator of the straitjacket process in the field of established politics.…”
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Vienna, the Spanish Ambassador and the Nuncio: The 3rd Marquis of Aytona and the Fading Catholic Alliance (1624–1629) by Rubén González Cuerva

“… The papacy and the Spanish Monarchy were, by the decade of 1620, the most global powers in Europe and their dynastic and confessional priorities led to changing clashes and alliances around the world. …”
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Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric by Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel

“…Hobbes, who advocated for monarchy, criticized rhetoric from the perspective of a materialist anthropology influenced by Lucretius. …”
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Druhý, tzv. Gibišův transport československých legií z Ruska do Francie (1917-1918) by Tomáš Jiránek

“…They discovered that the legionaries were perfect soldiers with the high combat morals which originated from the clear aim: they wished to destroy the Habsburg monarchy and create the independent Czechoslovakia. …”
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Hagiographie liturgique et construction identitaire dans un néo-diocèse (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles). Le Proprium Sanctorum dans les bréviaires des diocèses français créés sous Louis XIV... by Philippe Castagnetti

“…Justifiable by the claim of the Church of France leaned on Monarchy to eradicate Protestantism, the creation under Louis XIV of the three dioceses of La Rochelle, Alais and Blois results in writing proper breviaries whose sanctoral gives importance to a lot of local saints with an apologetic purpose. …”
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The Best Constitution for the Flourishing Lives: Aristotle’s Political Theory and Its Implications for Emancipatory Purposes by Andrius Bielskis

“…There, Aristotle claims that monarchy is the supreme form of constitution. A similar claim is repeated in Politics. …”
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