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Des qualifications nobiliaires : "la jurisprudence nobiliaire par les textes et par l'exemple" : annales de la noblesse
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ISBN: 9782910654047 2910654044 Year: 1997 Publisher: Versailles: Mémoire et documents,

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La noblesse au royaume de France de Philippe le Bel à Louis XII : essai de synthèse
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ISBN: 2130487637 Year: 1997 Volume: *1

Vom Lehnhof zur Reichsritterschaft : Strukturen des fränkischen Niederadels am Übergang vom späten Mittelalter zur frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3515071091 Year: 1997 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy : the Piedmontese nobility, 1861-1930
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ISBN: 0521593034 0521522293 051108711X 0511585225 0511003005 9780511003004 9780521593038 9780511585227 Year: 1997 Volume: *23 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides a full account of the Italian nobility in the post-unification era. It challenges interpretations which have stressed the rapid fusion of old and new elites in Italy and the marginality of the nobility after 1861, and instead highlights the continuing economic strength, social power and political influence of Italy's most prominent regional aristocracy. In Piedmont, the nobles were able to develop more indirect forms of influence to satisfy their hunger for leadership based on something older than constitutions or electoral politics. They remained a largely separate group within local society, distinguished by their attachment to the values of lineage, military service, landownership, and social exclusivity. This aristocratic exclusivity and influence survived the agricultural depression of the nineteenth century, before succumbing finally to the devastating effects of World War I.

State and nobility in early modern Germany : the knightly feud in Franconia, 1440-1567
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ISBN: 0521561795 052152265X 0511583222 0511004192 9780511004193 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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One of the most striking features of late medieval and early modern German was the countless feuds carried out by nobles. A constant threat to law and order, these feuds have commonly been regarded as a manifestation of the decline - economic and otherwise - of the nobility. This study shows that the nobility was not in crisis at this time. Nor were feuds merely banditry by another name. Rather, they were the result of an interplay between two fundamental processes: princely state-building, and social stratification among the nobility. Offering a new paradigm for understanding the German nobility, this book argues that the development of the state made proximity to princes the single most decisive factor in determining the fortune of a family. The result was a violent competition among the nobility over resources which were crucial to the princes. Feuds played a central role in this struggle that eventually led to the formation of an elite of noble families on whose power and wealth the princely state depended.

Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi
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ISBN: 0585082383 0520917391 9780520917392 9780585082387 0520203895 0520203909 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adverse circumstances, and who was an acute observer of Medicean society. Her letters speak of political and social status, of the concept of honor, and of the harshness of life, including the plague and the loss of children. They are also a guide to Alessandra's inner life over a period of twenty-three years, revealing the pain and sorrow, and, more rarely, the joy and triumph, with which she responded to the events unfolding around her. This edition includes translations, in full or in part, of 35 of the 73 extant letters. The selections carry forward the story of Alessandra's life and illustrate the range of attitudes, concerns, and activities which were characteristic of their author.

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