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Monarchomachs

Western European writers and publicists of the second half of the 16th and early 17th centuries who opposed absolutism.

The monarchomachs denied the divine origin of royal authority, believing that sovereignty belongs to the people. The people empower the monarch on a contractual basis; accordingly, they have the right to overthrow him if he violates the conditions of the contract, thus becoming a tyrant, and even to kill him.

The monarchomachs did not constitute a unified tendency in philosophy; depending on concrete historical conditions, they reflected the interests of different social strata such as the growing bourgeoisie in England and the Netherlands or the feudal elite in France. Employing the term “the people,” the monarchomachs in fact meant the bourgeoisie or the nobility, never the popular masses. The French monarchomachs in particular sought not the elimination of the monarchy but rather its limitation by institutions representing the various social estates.

Monarchomach theories were often advanced in the course of the religious-political struggle of this period. Among those developing such ideas were the Calvinists P. Du Plessis-Mornay and F. Hotman in France, J. Althusius in Germany, and G. Buchanan in Scotland; the Catholic J. Boucher in France, one of the founders of the Holy League of 1584–94; and the Jesuits J. de Mariana and F. Suarez in Spain.

F. A. KOGAN-BERNSHTEIN

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No references found	Even the king and the queen (Charles IX, Catherine of Medici, and Henry III) were not spared by the doctrine of the Monarchomaques, who threatened the authority of the king. Traite des invectives au temps de la Reforme by Fantoni, Christian / Renaissance Quarterly The term monarchomaque has been used widely, and somewhat loosely, to describe a diverse array of sixteenth-century Protestant authors of a Calvinist orientation who defended some version of the view that kings committed to a tyrannical agenda, especially in matters of religious conformity, could legitimately be resisted by their populations. Et de sa bouche sortait un glaive: Les monarchomaques au XVIe Siecle by Nederman, Cary J. / Renaissance Quarterly Et de sa bouche sortait un glaive: Les monarchomaques au XVI Siecle. Books received by Renaissance Quarterly	Monaco, Lorenzo monactine Monad monadelphous Monadhliath Mountains monadic monadic operation Monadidae Monadnock Monadnock State Park Monagas, Jose Tadeo Monagas, José Tadeo Monaghan Monaghan, Thomas S. Monahans Sandhills State Park Monakhov, Nikolai Monakhov, Nikolai Fedorovich Monakhov, Vladimir Monakhov, Vladimir Vasilevich monalbite monandrous monarch monarch butterfly monarchianism Monarchomachs Monarchomaque Monarchy Monasterboice Monasteries monastery Monastic Orders Monastic Schools Monasticism Monastir Monastyrishche Monastyriska Monastyrshchina Monastyrskie Krestiane Monastyrskii Prikaz monatomic monatomic gas monaural sound monaxon Monazite Monboddo, James Burnett, Lord Moncenisio Monchegorsk Monchengladbach Mönchengladbach Monchetundra monchiquite	monarchial Monarchian Monarchian Monarchianism Monarchianism Monarchianist Monarchianist Monarchians Monarchians monarchic monarchic monarchic monarchical monarchical monarchical monarchically monarchically monarchies monarchies monarchies monarchism monarchist Monarchist League of Canada monarchistic Monarchists Monarchize Monarchizer Monarcho Monarchomach Monarchomachs Monarchomaque Monarchomaques Monarchs Monarchs monarchy monarchy monarchy Monarchy of July MONARCS monarda monarda Monarda citriodora Monarda clinopodia Monarda didyma Monarda didyma Monarda fistulosa Monarda pectinata Monarda punctata Monardella Monardella lanceolata Monardia didyma Monario Monaro Continuing Education Group Monaro Folk Music Society monarthric monarthritis monarticular Monarticular Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis monas monas monas

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Even the king and the queen (Charles IX, Catherine of Medici, and Henry III) were not spared by the doctrine of the Monarchomaques, who threatened the authority of the king.

Traite des invectives au temps de la Reforme by Fantoni, Christian / Renaissance Quarterly

The term monarchomaque has been used widely, and somewhat loosely, to describe a diverse array of sixteenth-century Protestant authors of a Calvinist orientation who defended some version of the view that kings committed to a tyrannical agenda, especially in matters of religious conformity, could legitimately be resisted by their populations.

Et de sa bouche sortait un glaive: Les monarchomaques au XVIe Siecle by Nederman, Cary J. / Renaissance Quarterly

Et de sa bouche sortait un glaive: Les monarchomaques au XVI Siecle.

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