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Title Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Charles Lipp.

Imprint Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.

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Description xi, 298 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The spaces of nobility / Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp -- The early modern European nobility and its contested historiographies, c. 1950-1980 / Hamish Scott -- Negotiating for Agnes' womb / Erica Bastress-Dukehart -- Contested masculinity : noblemen and their mistresses in early modern Spain / Grace E. Coolidge -- Inventing the courtier in early sixteenth century Portugal / Susannah Humble Ferreira -- Sepulchral monuments as a means of communicating social and political power of nobles in early modern Russia / Cornelia Soldat -- Il monastero nuovo : cloistered women of the Medici court / Katherine L. Turner -- The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France / Elie Haddad -- All the king's men : educational reform and the restoration of the service nobility in early seventeenth-century Spain / Ryan Gaston -- "Of polish'd pillars, or a roofe of gold" : authority and affluence in the English country house poem / Sukanya Dasgupta -- Nobility as a social and political dialogue : the Parisian example, 1650-1750 / Mathieu Marraud -- Challenging the status quo : attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later eighteenth century / Jerzy Lukowski -- Resilient notables : looking at the transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the local level / M. Safa Saracoglu.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nobility -- Europe -- History.
Spatial behavior -- Europe -- History.
Self-protective behavior -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Contests -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History.
Dominance (Psychology) -- Europe -- History.
Social change -- Europe -- History.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Romaniello, Matthew P.
Lipp, Charles.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781409405511 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409405528 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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