title: Civil Rights and Political Participation in Ancien Régime Europe
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Blockmans, Wim
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T17:07:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-19T17:07:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Blockmans W. Civil Rights and Political Participation in Ancien Régime Europe. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 3, рp. 842–864.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.309
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19928
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: After the Second World War, a wave of euphoria fostered an international consensus that
  led to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Treaty
  for Human Rights, and institutions safeguarding their application. In the early 21st century,
  however, these great ideals and even parliamentary democracy appear to be open to various
  forms of manipulation tending to the restriction of its own constitutional rights and functions.
  This paper retraces the long-term genesis of these concepts which emerged in the course of a
  centuries-long development that is uniquely European. A constant tension can be observed
  between the difficult formulation of fundamental rights of subjects, originally on a local and
  regional basis, and the effectiveness of the institutions created to control governments. The
  growth of cities, which acquired various levels of autonomy and autarchy, was fundamental to
  make it possible that immunities and particular privileges similar to those of clerics and aristocrats were extended to the new communities. The periods of urban growth, and the density
  of cities within particular territories, determined which balance of powers was stabilised. The
  earliest and most intense wave of urbanisation, in North and Central Italy from the 10th to the
  13th century, brought civil rights and privileges for local communes, but also domination of
  the largest cities as they absorbed or eliminated all potentially countervailing powers. In other
  regions, various balances were attained between the prevailing seigneurial interests and those
  of urban communities.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urbanisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: commercialisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: privileges
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: representation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oligarchisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Civil Rights and Political Participation in Ancien Régime Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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