Noble strategies in an early modern small state
Subtitle: the Mahuet of Lorraine
By: Charles T. Lipp
Series: Changing perspectives on early modern Europe -- v. 14
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781580463966
Subjects: Nobility; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a more typical portrait; title: Becoming noble in a small state; title: An uncertain exile : Marc-Antoine de Mahuet in the court of Charles of Lorraine; title: Surviving the Sun King : the Mahuet in French-occupied Lorraine; title: The limits to success : Jean-François de Mahuet and the grand prévôté de Saint-Di?; title: Conclusion : strategies of status and small-state nobles; title: Appendixes: Genealogies of the Mahuet, Dattel, Richard, and d'Hoffelize families; The dukes of Lorraine, 1473-1737;  A statistical survey of the Lorrain anoblis.