Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe write by Charles Lipp. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and education, disruptions caused by war and religious strife, changing political ideas and concepts, the growth of a market economy, and the evolution of centralized states in order to maintain their lineage, reputation, and position. Through an examination of the differing strategies utilized to protect their status, this collection reveals much about the fundamental role of the 'second order' in European history and how they had to redefine the social and cultural 'spaces' in which they found themselves. By using a transnational and comparative approach to the study of the European nobility, the volume offers exciting new perspectives on this important, if often misunderstood, social group.
Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe write by Professor Charles Lipp. This book was released on 2013-07-28. Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and education, disruptions caused by war and religious strife, changing political ideas and concepts, the growth of a market economy, and the evolution of centralized states in order to maintain their lineage, reputation, and position. Through an examination of the differing strategies utilized to protect their status, this collection reveals much about the fundamental role of the 'second order' in European history and how they had to redefine the social and cultural 'spaces' in which they found themselves. By using a transnational and comparative approach to the study of the European nobility, the volume offers exciting new perspectives on this important, if often misunderstood, social group.
Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State
Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State write by Charles T. Lipp. This book was released on 2011. Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the societies of the hundreds of small states that made up most of Europe before the 19th century, this text takes as its focus the Duchy of Lorraine.
Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe
Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe write by Jochen Schenk. This book was released on 2016. Culture and Conflict in Western and Northern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Monarchy Transformed
Monarchy Transformed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monarchy Transformed write by Robert von Friedeburg. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Monarchy Transformed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this period were not 'states' in any modern sense, but primarily princely dynasties pursuing not only dynastic ambitions and princely prestige but the consequences of dynastic chance. At the same time, elites, far from insisting on confrontation with the government of princes for principled ideological reasons, had every reason to seek compromise and even advancement through new channels that the governing dynasty offered, if only they could profit from them. Monarchy Transformed ultimately challenges the inevitability of modern maps of Europe and shows how, instead of promoting state formation, the wars of the period witnessed the creation of several dynastic agglomerates and new kinds of aristocracy.
