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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe

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European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their status, or maintain their privileges, by negotiating with various political and religious authorities, and exploiting opportunities in this era of upheaval. In examining the protective strategies nobles adopted in an age of state-building

List of contents

Chapter 1 The Spaces of Nobility, Matthew P. Romaniello, Charles Lipp; Chapter 2 The Early Modern European Nobility and its Contested Historiographies, c. 1950–1980, Hamish Scott; Chapter 3 Negotiating for Agnes’ Womb, Erica Bastress-Dukehart; Chapter 4 Contested Masculinity: Noblemen and their Mistresses in Early Modern Spain, Grace E. Coolidge; Chapter 5 Inventing the Courtier in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal, Susannah Humble Ferreira; Chapter 6 Sepulchral Monuments as a Means of Communicating Social and Political Power of Nobles in Early Modern Russia, Cornelia Soldat; Chapter 7 Il monastero nuovo: Cloistered Women of the Medici Court, Katherine L. Turner; Chapter 8 The Question of the Imprescriptibility of Nobility in Early Modern France, Elie Haddad; Chapter 9 All the King’s Men: Educational Reform and Nobility in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain, Ryan Gaston; Chapter 10 “Of polish’d pillars, or a roofe of gold”: Authority and Affluence in the English Country-House Poem, Sukanya Dasgupta; Chapter 11 Nobility as a Social and Political Dialogue: The Parisian Example, 1650–1750, Mathieu Marraud; Chapter 12 Challenging the Status Quo: Attempts to Modernize the Polish Nobility in the Later Eighteenth Century, Jerzy Lukowski; Chapter 13 Resilient Notables: Looking at the Transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the Local Level, M. Safa Saraço?lu;

About the author

Matthew P. Romaniello is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA. Dr Charles Lipp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia, USA.

Summary

European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their status, or maintain their privileges, by negotiating with various political and religious authorities, and exploiting opportunities in this era of upheaval. In examining the protective strategies nobles adopted in an age of state-building

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