Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe
By: Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp
Contributors: Lipp, Charles
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409405511; 9781409405528
Subjects: Spatial behavior; Power (Social sciences); Social change; Self-protective behavior; Nobility; Social conditions; Contests; Dominance (Psychology); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The spaces of nobility / Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp; title: The early modern European nobility and its contested historiographies, c. 1950-1980 / Hamish Scott; title: Negotiating for Agnes' womb / Erica Bastress-Dukehart; title: Contested masculinity : noblemen and their mistresses in early modern Spain / Grace E. Coolidge; title: Inventing the courtier in early sixteenth century Portugal / Susannah Humble Ferreira; title: Sepulchral monuments as a means of communicating social and political power of nobles in early modern Russia / Cornelia Soldat; title: Il monastero nuovo : cloistered women of the Medici court / Katherine L. Turner; title: The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France / Elie Haddad; title: All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain / Ryan Gaston; title: "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem / Sukanya Dasgupta; title: Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 / Mathieu Marraud; title: Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century / Jerzy Lukowski; title: Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level / M. Safa Saraçoglu.