Download or read book Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and beyond. If both parties benefited, rival political theories of the divine right of monarchs and consensual rule tended to undermine the working relationship, at times violently.