Physician prince: Public health strategies and the state-building project during the reign of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria

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dc.contributor.committeeChairBaum, Jacob
dc.contributor.committeeMemberD'Amico, Stefano
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSwingen, Abigail
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRoy, Sydnor
dc.creatorConrad, John Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-14T19:23:00Z
dc.date.available2021-09-14T19:23:00Z
dc.date.created2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.date.submittedAugust 2021
dc.date.updated2021-09-14T19:23:02Z
dc.description.abstractThis work is concerned with the expansion of state authority as inspired by political philosophy and the eventual use of coercive power by the state to further ingratiate itself into the lives of its subjects. It does this through a case study of public health policy in early modern Bavaria under Duke Maximilian I’s (r. 1571-1651) devout Catholic rule. The method draws on perspectives from urban history, the history of medicine and public health, state building, and the history of ideas. The introductory chapter details the broader scholarship on public health, the history of medicine, State Building, and Bavaria. The work continues in the second chapter by examining Maximilian’s early firsthand experiences with public health, bodily health, and medical theory. This early period of Maximilian’s reign marked an important early phase in the intellectual development of his health policy. The third chapter examines the influence of Maximilian’s closest advisor Adam Contzen (b. 1577-1635) had on policy decisions. Using Contzen’s previously untranslated work of political philosophy titled the Politicorum Libri Decem or Ten Books on Politics, this chapter looks at the intellectual philosophy behind Maximilian’s undertakings as it explores the connections between public health and politics. The most important of these ideas was the concept of amicitia or the relationship, ideally defined by love, shared between the ruler and the ruled. Finally, the fourth chapter analyzes plague ordinances throughout Maximilian’s reign, and finds that the appropriation of various facets of public health by the state played a more significant role in Bavarian state building than previously thought. Overall, this work argues that taking a new approach to Duke Maximilian I, such as from the perspective of public health, provides for a more well-rounded interpretation of his character, the state building project in Early Modern Bavaria as a whole, and the evolution of the modern state in Europe more broadly.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/87886
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights.availabilityAccess is not restricted.
dc.subjectDuke Maximilian I
dc.subjectEarly Modern Europe
dc.subjectEarly Modern Bavaria
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectState Building
dc.subjectState Formation
dc.subjectAdam Contzen
dc.subject1571-1651
dc.subject1618-1648
dc.subjectPolitical Philosophy
dc.subjectHistory of Ideas
dc.subjectBavaria
dc.subjectWittelsbach
dc.subjectThirty Years War
dc.subjectAbsolutism
dc.subjectEarly Modern
dc.subjectEarly Modern Germany
dc.titlePhysician prince: Public health strategies and the state-building project during the reign of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorTexas Tech University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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