The Long Shadow of the Minister-Favourite: Conceptualizations of Power and State in Early Modern Europe

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Monsó Solans, Martí (2021)

The Long Shadow of the Minister-Favourite: Conceptualizations of Power and State in Early Modern Europe

Master thesis | History (MA)

In 1973, the emergence of all-powerful statesmen in the principal European monarchies was identified by Bérenger as the Euroepan phenomenon of the minister-favourite. In 1999, Elliott and Brockliss actualized and expanded the understanding of this phenomenon with the help of various scholars and the latest advances in the study of the principal minster-favourites. Taking as a reference the last studies of Orry and Dubois, this paper will analyze their memorials to measure the degree to which the context of the early 18th century promoted the reemergence of the power and state conceptualization held by the original minister-favourites.