Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe

The spaces of nobility / Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp -- The early modern European nobility and its contested historiographies, c. 1950-1980 / Hamish Scott -- Negotiating for Agnes' womb / Erica Bastress-Dukehart -- Contested masculinity : noblemen and their mistresses in early modern...

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Weitere Verfasser: Romaniello, Matthew P. (HerausgeberIn), Lipp, Charles T. (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham, Surrey [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2011
Schlagworte:Nobility Spatial behavior Self-protective behavior Contests Power (Social sciences) Dominance (Psychology) Social change Europa Adel Sozialer Wandel mehr... Geschichte 1500-1800 Geschichte 1517-1789
Umfang:XI, 298 S.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The spaces of nobility Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp
  • The early modern European nobility and its contested historiographies, c. 1950-1980 Hamish Scott
  • Negotiating for Agnes' womb Erica Bastress-Dukehart
  • Contested masculinity : noblemen and their mistresses in early modern Spain Grace E. Coolidge
  • Inventing the courtier in early sixteenth century Portugal Susannah Humble Ferreira
  • Sepulchral monuments as a means of communicating social and political power of nobles in early modern Russia Cornelia Soldat
  • Il monastero nuovo : cloistered women of the Medici court Katherine L. Turner
  • The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France Elie Haddad
  • All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain Ryan Gaston
  • "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem Sukanya Dasgupta
  • Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 Mathieu Marraud
  • Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century Jerzy Lukowski
  • Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level M. Safa Saraçoglu.