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This research examines the formation of states in Western Europe from 1300 to 1600, challenging the notion that state building was solely a centralization process. It explores the role of local elites and decentralized authority in supporting emerging states through case studies across different regions.
This project pursues a new interpretation of state formation in Western Europe between 1300 and 1600.
This period is considered as the key phase in the genesis of the modern state, as various polities now centralized fiscal and military resources under their command.
While there is debate whether this was primarily a top-down process carried by princes, or a bottom-up process carried by popular representation, scholars agree that state building was exclusively a process of centralization.
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