Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society 2001
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Introduction. Grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society

Abstract: Recent work in social history has given great emphasis both to the variety of forms of hierarchy in early modern society and to the ways in which the experience of hierarchy and subordination was negotiated. At the same time historians, in¯uenced perhaps by the linguistic turn, have become more sensitive to the fact that order was culturally constructed and that life chances were affected not just by material issues but also by the ways in which the social world was imagined and described. We are now confronte… Show more

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“…15 At the same time, much of this work has also offered a vision of a "polymorphous" early modern state, in which violence was barely controllable, borders flexible and permeable, and the state less a "binary" relationship between ruler and ruled than "grids of power" in which individuals from the local to the global "were able to locate themselves on a number of hierarchies," over both space and time. 16 Within what J. H. Elliott has identified as "a Europe of composite monarchies," political communities now appear never to have been straightforward and simple but, rather, overlapping networks of local and regional power that stood in varying and complex relationships to shared and multiple centers. 17 Despite all this much-needed nuance and complexity, however, there is a way in which all of this work still serves to root the history of politics and political thought instinctively in national contexts.…”
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“…15 At the same time, much of this work has also offered a vision of a "polymorphous" early modern state, in which violence was barely controllable, borders flexible and permeable, and the state less a "binary" relationship between ruler and ruled than "grids of power" in which individuals from the local to the global "were able to locate themselves on a number of hierarchies," over both space and time. 16 Within what J. H. Elliott has identified as "a Europe of composite monarchies," political communities now appear never to have been straightforward and simple but, rather, overlapping networks of local and regional power that stood in varying and complex relationships to shared and multiple centers. 17 Despite all this much-needed nuance and complexity, however, there is a way in which all of this work still serves to root the history of politics and political thought instinctively in national contexts.…”
Section: A Eurasia Of Composite Sovereigntiesmentioning
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“…84 Of course, Sandys's lawyers objected strenuously to this argument but in so doing also provided a good deal of insight as to its profound implications. William Williams, one of Sandys's lawyers and later solicitor general, argued that vesting 80 Report of the Attorney General Concerning Interlopers, 16 , 10:379-80. 84 This argument was taken up again in a way, after the Company's abolition, by no less a figure than John Stuart Mill, who argued that the only way for a free people to rule a dependency as different as Britain was from India, particularly with regard to religion, was to have a "delegated body of a comparatively permanent character," which he lamented England, in fact, had in the East India Company.…”
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“…Due to a combination of the available sources and an interest in showcasing the ‘agency’ of the labouring population, historians have tended to focus on comparatively exceptional aspects of social relations, such as riot and ‘resistance’ (broadly defined). See Walter, Crowds and popular politics ; idem, ‘Public transcripts’; Braddick and Walter, ‘Grids of power’; Wood, Riot . Deference and subordination have been comparatively neglected; for recent discussions, see Wood, ‘Deference’; idem, ‘Subordination’; idem, ‘Fear’.…”
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“…This concept -which I term 'performative negotiation' -relies upon physiological and verbal cues to transmit an image of leadership which the subjects-as-audience choose to accept or reject. Braddick and Walter (2001) discuss the early modern relationship of leadership role to audience acceptance explicitly in terms of 'negotiation':…”
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“…Instead, they are active players who work with the leader to construct his or her charismatic identity' (p. 34). This aspect of 'working with' the leader, I argue, is the process of negotiation identified by Braddick and Walter (2001), and can be seen in the exchanges between Henry and his subjects, and is designed to draw attention to the parallel relationship between the audience-as-populace and their monarch.…”
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