The Planet King: Philip IV and the Survival of Spain | History Today - 0 views
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The continuing military, as maritime, supremacy of Spain could hardly have been more sensationally demonstrated than by these twin events
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dramatic evidence of Spain's right to universal empire, but had also caused, by their determination and devotion
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The Decline of Spain' summarised what he considered to be the salient causes of that phenomenon, which for many years maintained the status of a decalogue. Amongst them figured 'the progressive decline in the character of the Habsburg kings'
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The Spanish monarchy and system inherited by Philip IV in 1621 have long been accepted as being in a state of full decline
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At Philip's accession to the throne, Spanish drama was enjoying a high summer of achievement fully equal to that of Jacobean England. Philip was entranced by its diversions, the escapist yet profoundly relevant worlds of courtly love, honour, revenge, cloak-and-dagger violence, salvation and damnation
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Of the five Austrian [i.e. Habsburg] kings, Charles V inspires enthusiasm, Philip II respect, Philip III indifference, Philip IV sympathy, and Carlos II pity
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For most of the 1620s, the only major issue on which the King seems to have criticised his valido was the question of the Austrian alliance
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Without Portugal and its immense colonial empire, Philip's pretensions to the title of 'Planet King' were hollow