Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587

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Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587 is written by Felicia Rosu and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0192506439 (ISBN 10) and 9780192506436 (ISBN 13).

This book is an examination of why and how the elective principle, already established in Transylvanian and Polish political culture in the late medieval period, was transformed in the early elections of the 1570s. In this period, the two polities adopted constitutional arrangements different in depth and scope but based on the same fundamental principles: elective thrones, state-sanctioned religious pluralism, and constitutional guarantees for the right of disobedience. There were important variations in their regulation and application, but Transylvania and the newly created Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had one essential thing in common: they were the only two polities in early modern Europe whose political systems secured the succession of their rulers through large-scale elections in which the dynastic principle, although still important, was not binding.