Nobility of Holland - From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650

Klappentext This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. Zusammenfassung This book is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain. In the late medieval county of Holland the nobility played a significant role! but in the seventeenth century it appears to have been obliterated by bourgeois merchants and urban regents. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Virtue and descent; 3. The weight of numbers: demographic trends and forces; 4. Endogamy and misalliances; 5. Incomes and expenditures; 6. Manors and honours; 7. Beggars and loyalists; 8. Integration and apartheid; 9. Conclusion: knights and regents; Bibliography; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: H. F. K. Nierop, H. F. K. van Nierop, H.f.k.van Nierop, Henk F. K. Van Nierop, H. F. K. Van Nierop
• Mitarbeit: Maarten Ultee (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.03.1993
• EAN: 9780521392600
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39260-0
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte