"composite monarchy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1975 by German-born British historian Helmut Koenigsberger and popularised by Sir John Huxtable Elliott.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "composite monarchies",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "1995 [Routledge], Conrad Russell, Chapter 8: Composite monarchies in early modern Europe, Alexander Grant, Keith Stringer, Uniting the Kingdom?, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-library, page 133,\nAll multiple kingdoms are composite monarchies, but not all composite monarchies are multiple kingdoms."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, page 22",
          "text": "These historians have rediscovered what J. R. Seeley realised a century ago: that England, just like France, was a composite monarchy, just as Britain, just like the Spanish Monarchy, was a multiple kingdom.⁷⁰ In the former, a diversity of territories, peoples, institutions and legal jurisdictions is cemented under a single, recognised sovereign authority; in the latter, various kingdoms were ruled by a single sovereign, while they maintained varying degrees of autonomy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alissa M. Ardito, Machiavelli and the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, page 195",
          "text": "Composite monarchy offered Machiavelli a vision of polity that did not enslave its territory, as Florence, operating the dictates of empire, invariably did. Contra empire, early modern monarchy offers a vision of cities and territories coexisting on equal footing. is there a way to combine composite monarchy and republic to build a new kind of state?",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics, historical) A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "several territories governed by a single ruler",
          "word": "composite state"
        },
        {
          "sense": "several territories governed by a single ruler",
          "word": "personal union"
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "government",
        "politics"
      ],
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        "Helmut Koenigsberger",
        "John Elliott (historian)",
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  ],
  "word": "composite monarchy"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1975 by German-born British historian Helmut Koenigsberger and popularised by Sir John Huxtable Elliott.",
  "forms": [
    {
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "en:Politics"
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        {
          "text": "1995 [Routledge], Conrad Russell, Chapter 8: Composite monarchies in early modern Europe, Alexander Grant, Keith Stringer, Uniting the Kingdom?, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-library, page 133,\nAll multiple kingdoms are composite monarchies, but not all composite monarchies are multiple kingdoms."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire, Cambridge University Press, page 22",
          "text": "These historians have rediscovered what J. R. Seeley realised a century ago: that England, just like France, was a composite monarchy, just as Britain, just like the Spanish Monarchy, was a multiple kingdom.⁷⁰ In the former, a diversity of territories, peoples, institutions and legal jurisdictions is cemented under a single, recognised sovereign authority; in the latter, various kingdoms were ruled by a single sovereign, while they maintained varying degrees of autonomy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Alissa M. Ardito, Machiavelli and the Modern State, Cambridge University Press, page 195",
          "text": "Composite monarchy offered Machiavelli a vision of polity that did not enslave its territory, as Florence, operating the dictates of empire, invariably did. Contra empire, early modern monarchy offers a vision of cities and territories coexisting on equal footing. is there a way to combine composite monarchy and republic to build a new kind of state?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures."
      ],
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        ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(politics, historical) A type of monarchy, common in Europe during the early modern period, in which a single ruler governed several territories as if they were separate kingdoms, each with its own local traditions and legal structures."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ],
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      "sense": "several territories governed by a single ruler",
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    },
    {
      "sense": "several territories governed by a single ruler",
      "word": "personal union"
    }
  ],
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}