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Noble power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution
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ISBN: 0748653546 1299105513 0748628231 9780748628230 9780748653546 9781299105515 9780748612987 074861298X 9780748612970 0748612971 Year: 2011 Publisher: Edinburgh

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Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?'This quotation from Job begins Keith Brown's study of how Scotland's nobility rallied under the pressure of the Reformation and the Covenanting Revolution - a tumultuous period which has generated much historical debate on issues of political authority and power. In this volume Brown builds on his previous book, Noble Society in Scotland, to argue that in spite of the changes brought about by the Reformation, by the recovery of crown authority and by the regal union between England and Scotland, the huge power exercised by the nob


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Artists and Nobility in East-Central Europe.
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ISBN: 3110491826 3110494779 9783110494778 9783110491821 311049051X Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin, GERMANY De Gruyter

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The book analyses the collective career of the artistic profession in Brno and Vilnius and the necessity to copy the behavior of the elites of the Old Regime. The "noble" values, which shaped the artistic careers in the 19thcentury press, were charity, good taste, cosmopolitism and patriotism. The newspaper discourse disposed potential to integrate and to smuggle novelties by exposing old values.


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Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France : The Practice of Inegalitarianism
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ISBN: 1421432099 1421432080 1421432102 Year: 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism provides a history of the nobility against the backdrop of changing French political conditions following the French Revolution. Since Jean Juarès, the influential historian of the French Revolution, many writers have argued that the French Revolution marked the political triumph of a capitalist bourgeoisie over a landed aristocracy. However, beginning with Alfred Cobban, some historians began to question this account by focusing on the continued presence of the nobility in France. This book contributes to this body of work by giving a panorama of the French nobility and three detailed case studies of noble families; the author then concludes with an examination of the nobility in political life, the church, and the private sphere. Professor Higgs finds that French nobles changed with their century, but given their small numbers in the national population, they maintained a grossly disproportionate presence in politics, in culture, among the wealthiest landowners, and in economic life.

The Lara family
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ISBN: 0674034295 9780674034297 0674006062 9780674006065 0674006062 9780674006065 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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The Marquis of Roccaverdina
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ISBN: 0937832561 9780937832561 9780937832554 0937832553 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Dante University Press

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From Valor to Pedigree
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ISBN: 0691638993 0691610940 1400854326 9781400854325 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Patrons of history : nobility, capital and political transitions in Poland
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ISBN: 1317083113 1317083105 1280677597 9786613654526 1409443744 9781409443742 9781409443735 1409443736 9781315599748 9781317083092 9781317083108 9781138110021 1315599740 Year: 2012 Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate,

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Drawing on rich interview material spanning fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light not only on communism as it existed and the stratification that persisted under such regimes, but also on the functioning of relationships of power and the ways in which privilege can be studied in the contemporary world. As such, this book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers and historians interested in cultural and social capital, inequality and resistance.

Nobility reimagined
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ISBN: 1501717987 9781501717987 0801443326 9780801443329 0801489490 9780801489495 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ithaca

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The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social category and moral concept that had long dominated the cultural horizons of the old regime. Nobility Reimagined follows the elaboration of French patriotism across the eighteenth century and highlights the accentuation of key, and conflicting, features of patriotic thought at defining moments in the history of the monarchy. By enabling the articulation of different futures for nobility and nation, the patriotic awakening that marked the old regime helped to create both the quest for patriotic unity and the fierce constitutional battles that flowered at the time of the Revolution. Smith argues that the attempt to redefine and restore French nobility brought forth competing visions of patriotism with correlating models of the social and political order. Although the terms of public debate have changed, the same basic challenge continues to animate contemporary politics: how to reconcile inspiring and unifying nationalist ideals-honor, virtue, patriotism-with persistent social frictions rooted in class, ideology, ethnicity, or gender.


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Adel, Recht und Gerichtsbarkeit im frühneuzeitlichen Europa
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ISBN: 311034713X 3110369672 9783110347135 9783486778403 3486778404 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston

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Adelskultur und Rechtskultur waren in der Frühen Neuzeit in vielfältiger Hinsicht mit einander verbunden. Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband eröffnen eine europäische Perspektive auf die Problemkreise der Verrechtlichung des sozialen Handelns, auf die Mitwirkung an der Ausgestaltung und Implementierung von Rechtsstandards und zuletzt auf die Frage nach den Effekten auf die Praxis adeligen Lebens. Aristocratic culture and legal culture were heavily interlinked during the Early Modern period. The essays in this compendium disclose a European perspective on problems in the juridification of social commerce, participation in the design and implementation of legal standards, and ultimately on the question of how juridification affected the practices of aristocratic life.


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La maison ducale de Lorraine devenue La maison impériale et royale d'Autriche, de Hongrie et de Bohême
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ISBN: 2864805170 Year: 1991 Publisher: Nancy Presses universitaires de Nancy

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