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This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state.

France --- Burgundy (France) --- Politics and government. --- History --- Burgundian State. --- Charles the Bold. --- Feudal State. --- Feudal loyalties. --- Geographical Knowledge. --- Low Countries. --- Medieval Majesty. --- National identity. --- Political communication. --- Political communities.

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In 1660 the four nations of the British Isles were governed by one imperial crown but by three parliaments. The abolition of the Scottish and Irish Parliaments in 1707 and 1800 created a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland centred upon the Westminster legislature. What did the making of the monolith mean for the four nations? Did conceptions of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities flourish, change or wither as a consequence to the growth of the imperial Parliament and to what extent did Parliament help or hinder a developing sense of Britishness as a new nationality? The groundbreaking essays in this volume, all based on extensive original research, address these questions from an unusually wide variety of perspectives, showing how the parliaments at Dublin, Edinburgh and, especially, Westminster, were seen and used in very different ways by people from very different communities. Parliament may have been conceived as a repository of 'the' national interest, but in practice it was the site of four national and multiple cross-national identities. This fascinating book is a major contribution to the history of the forging of the United Kingdom and national identity and will be essential reading for all undergraduates of history and politics.

Politics and government --- National characteristics, British. --- Legislative bodies. --- HISTORY --- European history. --- Regional and national history. --- History. --- Humanities. --- Legislative bodies --- British national characteristics --- Bicameralism --- Legislatures --- Parliaments --- Unicameral legislatures --- Constitutional law --- Estates (Social orders) --- Representative government and representation --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- General. --- Ireland. --- Great Britain. --- Europe --- Ireland --- Great Britain --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Irish Free State --- House of Commons (Great Britain) --- England and Wales. --- British Empire. --- British Isles. --- Irish Parliament. --- Liverpool petitions. --- Scottish Parliament. --- United Kingdom of Great Britain. --- Westminster legislature. --- geo-political communities. --- imperial identity. --- national identity. --- old Corruption. --- policy debate. --- unions. --- virtual representation.

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The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?

Spanish American poetry --- Epic poetry, Spanish --- War in literature. --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Political science in literature --- Spanish American literature --- To 1800 --- Africa. --- Alonso de Ercilla. --- Americas. --- Amerindian Republics. --- Arauco domado. --- Armas antárticas. --- Asia. --- Colonial Peru. --- Colonial Reality. --- Colonialism. --- Conflict Ethics. --- Conquests. --- Empire. --- Epic Mirror. --- Ethical Solutions. --- Europe. --- Globalization. --- Hispanic Literature. --- History of Political Thought. --- Irreconcilable World Views. --- Juan de Miramontes Zuázola. --- Just Warfare. --- La Araucana. --- Literature. --- Maroon Kingdoms. --- Peace. --- Pedro de Oña. --- Poetry. --- Political Communities. --- Political Community. --- Search for Solutions. --- Seventeenth Century. --- Sixteenth Century. --- Spanish Empire. --- Spanish Settlers. --- Spanish-American Writers. --- Veterans. --- Viceregal Peru. --- Violent Conflicts. --- Vision of Warfare.