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In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.

History of civilization --- Medici, de [Family] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Italy --- Nobility --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- History --- Florence (Italy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Social life and customs --- Civilization --- Medici, House of.

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John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the throne of Castile, was son to Edward III, uncle to the ill-starred Richard III and father to Henry IV and the Lancastrian line. The richest and most powerful subject in England, a key actor on the international stage, patron of Wycliffe and Chaucer, he was deeply involved in the Peasant's revolt and the Hundred Years War. He is also one of the most hated men of his time. This splendid study, the first since 1904, vividly portrays the political life of the age, with the controversial figure of Gaunt at the heart of it.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- John of Gaunt [hertog van Lancaster] --- Nobility --- -Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Biography --- John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster --- Biography. --- History --- -Biography --- John, --- John of Gaunt, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- 14th century --- Statesmen --- John, of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, 1340-1399. --- Great Britain - History - 14th century. --- Statesmen - Great Britain - Biography. --- Nobility - Great Britain - Biography. --- John of Gaunt [Duke of Lancaster]

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« Noblesse oblige. » La maxime du duc Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764-1830) est passée dans le langage courant pour évoquer les obligations morales qui pèsent sur les détenteurs d’un nom, et plus généralement pour inviter tous les prétendants à la respectabilité à adopter un comportement conforme à la dignité qu’ils revendiquent. L’idée n’était pas nouvelle. En 1665, dans son Dom Juan, Molière plaçait déjà dans la bouche de Dom Louis une tirade véhémente devenue fameuse : « Non, non, la naissance n’est rien où la vertu n’est pas. » Si la noblesse reposait sur la vertu, quelle définition donnait-on à cette qualité ? S’agissait-il du courage guerrier, de l’exemplarité morale ou de l’appartenance au monde des gens de bien ? Vivre de ses rentes ne suffisait plus pour être reconnu comme noble dans une société où, à partir du xviie siècle.

Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Group identity --- Group values (Sociology) --- Social values --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Titles of honor and nobility --- History. --- Political activity --- Noblesse --- Identité collective --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- --Europe --- --XVIe-XVIIIe s., --- History --- Political activity&delete& --- XVIe-XVIIIe s., 1501-1800 --- Europe --- Identité collective --- noblesse --- société --- histoire moderne

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This study offers a new model of political development for northern France through an analysis of the interrelationships between the counts of Boulogne and their neighbors in Flanders, Picardy, Normandy, and England. It also illuminates the little studied relations between less powerful counts and their neighboring territorial princes. Organized chronologically from the late ninth through mid-twelfth century, each chapter provides a political narrative and an analysis of the use of kinship and alliance (formal and informal) to govern and conduct politics. The final chapter examines the formation of reputation and identity of the comital family of Boulogne. The book is part of the larger debate on feudalism, the rise of government institutions, kinship and identity.

Nobility --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- History. --- Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) --- France --- Great Britain --- Boulogne (France) --- Buljono-sur-Maro (France) --- Bononia (France) --- Bononia in Francia (France) --- Bolonia (France) --- Bononia Oceanensis (France) --- Bononiensium Civitas (France) --- Gesoria (France) --- Gesoriacum (France) --- Gesoriacum Morinorum (France) --- Gessoriacum (France) --- Gessoriocensis Portus (France) --- Morinorum Navale (France) --- Morinorum Portus Britannicus (France) --- Portus Itius (France) --- History --- Politics and government --- Relations --- 944.27 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER --- 944.27 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: dép. du Pas-de-Calais--(reg./lok.)--BOULOGNE-SUR-MER --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: dép. du Pas-de-Calais--(reg./lok.)--BOULOGNE-SUR-MER --- Noblesse --- Histoire --- Grande-Bretagne --- Administration --- Politique et gouvernement --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of France --- anno 800-1199 --- Boulogne-sur-Mer --- International relations. --- Politics and government. --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Administration.

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This book recounts the first fifteen years, early education and marriage negotiations of the Habsburg Archduchess, Elizabeth, who grew up in the Royal and Imperial Courts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It portrays life at the court of Elizabeth's mother, the Empress Maria, and describes tournaments, coronations, plays, medals, chivalric literature, music, art, sewing, and saints' lives, as well as urban contexts. Ideas of political space and travel are discussed against the settings of Prague, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bratislava, Munich and Augsburg. Elizabeth’s story reveals specific structures of the Habsburg Courts, featuring Spanish, Austrian, Hungarian, Low Country, Italian, and Bohemian courtiers, and sets her personal story against the background of larger international events, such as the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the Ottoman Wars.

Mary [Empress of Spain] --- Elisabeth of Austria --- Empresses --- Nobility --- Elisabeth, --- Maria, --- Habsburg, House of. --- Holy Roman Empire --- Vienna (Austria) --- History --- Court and courtiers. --- -Nobility --- -943.01 --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Monarchy --- Queens --- Geschiedenis van Duitsland--(tot 843) --- María, --- Elizabeth, --- Isabelle, --- -Holy Roman Empire --- -Vienna (Austria) --- -History --- -Court and courtiers. --- 943.01 Geschiedenis van Duitsland--(tot 843) --- 943.01 --- Wien (Austria) --- Vi︠e︡denʹ (Austria) --- Vedenʹ (Austria) --- Vena (Austria) --- Wiedëń (Austria) --- Bécs (Austria) --- Vindobona (Austria) --- Videnʹ (Austria) --- Vienne (Austria) --- Viena (Austria) --- Wienn (Austria) --- Dunaj (Austria) --- Wean (Austria) --- Wenen (Austria) --- Wina (Austria) --- Wene (Austria) --- Uigenna (Austria) --- فيينا (Austria) --- Fīyinnā (Austria) --- Vyana (Austria) --- Вена (Austria) --- Горад Вена (Austria) --- Виена (Austria) --- Beč (Austria) --- Fienna (Austria) --- Viin (Austria) --- Βιέννη (Austria) --- Вена ош (Austria) --- Vena osh (Austria) --- Vieno (Austria) --- Viene (Austria) --- Vín (Austria) --- Veen (Austria) --- 빈 (Austria) --- Венæ (Austria) --- Venæ (Austria) --- וינה (Austria) --- Ṿinah (Austria) --- Vienna (Reichsgau) --- Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation --- Heiliges Römisches Reich --- Svi︠a︡shchennai︠a︡ Rimskai︠a︡ Imperii︠a︡ --- Imperium Romano Germanicum --- S.R.I. --- Sacrum Romanum Imperium --- Austria --- Germany --- Geschichte 1554-1569 --- Empresses - Holy Roman Empire - Biography. --- Nobility - Holy Roman Empire. --- Elisabeth, - of Austria, Queen, consort of Charles IX, King of France, - 1554-1592 --- Maria, - Empress, consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, - 1528-1603. --- Holy Roman Empire - History - Maximilian II, 1564-1576. --- Holy Roman Empire - Court and courtiers. --- Vienna (Austria) - Court and courtiers.