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From Valor to Pedigree : ideas of nobility in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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ISBN: 0691054606 Year: 1986 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Henry VIII and the English nobility.
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ISBN: 0631138366 Year: 1986 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell


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The aristocracy in England 1660 - 1914.
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ISBN: 0631133917 Year: 1986 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell


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Domination of Eastern Europe : native nobilities and foreign absolutism, 1500 - 1715.
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ISBN: 0773504389 9780773504387 Year: 1986 Publisher: Kingston McGill-Queen's university press

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One of the most outstanding features of the political history of Eastern Europe is its domination by foreign powers. Orest Subtelny traces the historic failure of modern East European nations to maintain their independence back to the final years of the seventeenth century and the first decade of the eighteenth, when five foreign empire-builders - the Habsburgs, Saxons, Wettins, Ottomans, Romanovs, and Swedish Vasas - made decisive efforts to subjugate the noble-dominated societies of Hungary, Poland-Lithuania, Moldavia, Ukraine and Livonia. Subtelny contends that the triumph of foreign absolutism in the region cannot be fully understood without considering the nature of its main opponents - the native nobilities. While he views the struggle for political dominance in Eastern Europe in terms familiar to the student of West European history - that is, essentialy as a conflict between monarchical absolutism and noble privilege - he focuses on the East European particularities of this confrontation, on the success of the East European nobles in stemming the rise of absolutism in their own societies, an achievement that, ironically, made them more vulnerable to the encroachments of foreign imperialism. Since the histories of the lands of Central and Eastern Europe have traditionally been treated in isolation from one another. Subtelny's synthesis is both enlightening and original. It provides a political counterpart to recent work on the East European economies, and is the first work in English to analyse the establishment of the great continental empires in the eastern part of the European continent.

The Venetian patriciate : reality versus myth
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ISBN: 0252011449 Year: 1986 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois press


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Les magistrats du parlement de Paris au XVIIIe siècle
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ISBN: 2717809880 9782717809886 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris Economica


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Crown and nobility 1272-1461 : political conflict in late medieval England
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ISBN: 0631148264 Year: 1986 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

Etudes prosopographiques
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ISBN: 2859441107 2859448292 9782859441104 Year: 1986 Volume: 5 Publisher: Paris Université de Paris

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Cet ouvrage comporte deux études prosopographiques. L'une est consacrée à trois familles byzantines, les Bourtzai, les Brachamioi et les Dalassènoi, qui ont pour trait commun d'avoir été en relations durables avec le duché d'Antioche. L'auteur, Jean- Claude Cheynet, utilise l'indispensable apport de la sigillographie pour saisir le rôle politique et social de ce groupe. L'autre étude renouvelle nos connaissances sur la généalogie des premiers Paléologues. Avant même d'accéder à l'Empire, les Paléologues avaient su parvenir au premier rang de l'aristocratie en contractant des alliances avec les dynasties impériales précédentes, ce qui favorisa leur réussite ultérieure. Tel est l'objet de l'étude de Jean- François Vannier.

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