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In the summer of 1604, the Transylvanian Council of Government, which had been formed shortly before, submitted a longer report to King Rudolf I of Hungary. They reported on the administration and financial situation of the newly pacified province of Transylvania. The most pressing issue, however, was the pay and maintenance of the mercenary corps stationed in Transylvania. Accordingly, the bulk of the report is devoted to discussing problems relating to the army. The report gives us an idea of how a Council of Government (Regiment) that had already been ‘tried and tested’ in the Austrian hereditary provinces functioned in Transylvania, and introduces the challenges members of the Council had to face.

In the summer of 1604, the Transylvanian Council of Government, which had been formed shortly before, submitted a longer report to King Rudolf I of Hungary. They reported on the administration and financial situation of the newly pacified province of Transylvania. The most pressing issue, however, was the pay and maintenance of the mercenary corps stationed in Transylvania. Accordingly, the bulk of the report is devoted to discussing problems relating to the army. The report gives us an idea of how a Council of Government (Regiment) that had already been 'tried and tested' in the Austrian hereditary provinces functioned in Transylvania, and introduces the challenges members of the Council had to face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En los últimos años hemos sido testigos de un cambio de tendencia con respecto al estado-nación como tema central de la historia política europea. Al mismo tiempo, hemos presenciado un creciente interés en las «monarquías compuestas» como entidades políticas importantes en la Europa de la Edad Moderna. La historiografía portuguesa, con un sólid oénfasis en la historia de Portugal como nación independiente, se ha inclinado a considerar los años entre 1580 y 164 0como un desafortunado episodio dentro de la historia nacional, concentrándose especialmente en aquellos aspectos del período de la Unión de las Coronas que parecían presagiar la recuperación de la independencia, como si éste desenlace hubiese sido más o menos inevitable. El propósito de este artículo es el de equilibrar la balanza mediante el análisis de la naturaleza de la Unión y las consecuencias, tanto positivas como negativas, de la incorporación de Portugal a la Monarquía Hispánica, concluyendo con una disquisición especulativa sobre la supuesta inevitabilidad de la ruptura con la España de Felipe IV en 1640.Recent years have seen a move away from the tendency to make the rise of the nation state the central theme of European political history, and a growing interest in «composite monarchies» as important political entities in early modern Europe. Portuguese historiography, with its heavy emphasis on the history of Portugal as an independent nation, has tended to regard the years 1580-1640 as an unfortunate interlude in the national story, and has concentrated in particular on those aspects of the period of the Union of the Crowns which seem to look forward to the recovery of independence as a more or less inevitable development. This essay seeks to redress the balance by examining the nature of the Union and the consequences, positive as well as negative, of Portugal’s incorporation into the Spanish Monarchy, and ends by speculating on the assumed inevitability of the break with the Spain of Philip IV in 1640.

The article reports on the Southern Netherlands and Franche-Comté Legation to the Holy See at the time of agent Laurent du Blioul during 1573-1598. The institution is studied under a socio-political perspective to discuss the place that it would take up within the Monarchia's Roman networks of power. It is argued that the legation is able to use, maintain and increase the royalty's influence on the city. It is opined that knowing how to use efficiently the available exogenous resources, the institution does not indicate the alleged Southern Netherlands's diplomatic decline.

The article discusses the arbitristas, Spanish authors who advocated reforms in the monarchy and colonial administration, especially in the time of king Philip II. In particular, it describes them in the context of the history of Peru and focuses on their advocacy of political rights for indigenous peoples in terms of Roman Catholic ethics. Among other topics addressed are the work "Memorial de las Historias del Nuevo Mundo Pirú" by the Franciscan monk Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova, the use of sermons for political and social advocacy, and the use of Spanish law by the arbitristas.

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The article discusses political and cultural aspects of Italy and Flanders, a historical geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands, in the 16th century. Topics mentioned in the article include relationships between the Spanish monarchy and the Netherlands, the beginning of urban development and the political character of this development in Italy and Netherlands during that century. Other topics mentioned in the article include the cultural history of Flanders and the Franco-Dutch War.

In the first millennium CE trade and kinship networks linked Western Europe and Central Asia via Scandinavia and the Russian rivers. These networks broke down when the early states began to emerge in Scandinavia during the 11th and 12th centuries, concurrent with the Christianization of the far North. Two cultural fault-lines mark Nordic history — between Western and Eastern Christendom and between feudal and non-feudal societies — and make this region distinct from Russia and Germany. The Swedish state, with Finland as an integral part of the realm until the 19th century, was neither a composite monarchy, nor a feudal or despotic state. Sweden was one of the largest but also least populated countries in Europe. Its relative lack of resources led to unusual but efficient techniques of state-making demonstrated in two periods when Sweden was prominent in an all-European perspective: first as a Great Power (1620-1720) when it developed characteristics that did not appear elsewhere in Europe until the 20th century, and then during the rapid modernization that began around 1870. In this latter period there were five key junctures in the transition from the constitutional limbo and social democratic breakthroughs of the interwar period to the antinomies of present-day Sweden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]