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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
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Lipp, Charles, Professor
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9781409405528, 9781409405511
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Ashgate
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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.

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Full Title

Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
Author(s)

Lipp, Charles, Professor
Edition
ISBN

9781409482062, 9781409405511
Publisher

Ashgate
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.

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