Nobilities In Europe In The Twentieth Century
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Author | : Y. Kuiper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Elite (Social sciences) |
ISBN | : 9789042932272 |
In this volume on the comparative study of nobility, historians, sociologists and anthropologists focus on the different processes of transformation that aristocratic elites in Europe went through during the twentieth century. Readers will learn about nobles in northern Europe (Sweden and Finland), southern Europe (Italy), western Europe (France, Belgium, the Netherlands) and central Europe (Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary). However, because of the comparative structure of the volume, readers will also sometimes encounter the nobility in Britain, Russia and the Baltic areas. The authors discuss questions like: how did noble men and women cope with the rise of totalitarian regimes and with the dramatic periods of the Second World War and the Cold War? What was the impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall? And how did nobles react to the loss of political and economic privileges? In spite of all the variety and heterogeneity in wealth, power, prestige, and public visibility of these nobilities, some remarkable general trends and patterns emerge from the articles. 0The fourteen contributions show how and why relatively many nobles succeeded in staying on top or in transforming political and economic capital into cultural and symbolic capital.
Author | : Jörn Leonhard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Aristocracy (Political science) |
ISBN | : 9783525310410 |
In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 1800 is deliberately crossed. By centring on the nobility, the authors undertake a new exploration of the continuities and ruptures in European history. In the three thematic areas of law, politics and aesthetics, the noble knights' utilisation of the early modern courts in the Holy Roman Empire is considered, along with the social and political identity of the English nobility in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions make clear the virtuosity with which the nobility met the challenges of their time, and how they managed to be simultaneously 'contemporary' and retain a specific aristocratic character.
Author | : Andrew Sinclair |
Publisher | : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hamish M. Scott |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This text examines Western European nobility in the 17th and 18th centuries. It includes chapters on: the consolidation of noble power c. 1600-1800; the British nobility 1660-1800; the Dutch nobility; nobility in France and Spain; and the Italian nobilities.
Author | : Jonathan Dewald |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1996-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521425285 |
An authoritative and accessible survey of the European nobility over four centuries.
Author | : Charles Lipp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317160363 |
In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and education, disruptions caused by war and religious strife, changing political ideas and concepts, the growth of a market economy, and the evolution of centralized states in order to maintain their lineage, reputation, and position. Through an examination of the differing strategies utilized to protect their status, this collection reveals much about the fundamental role of the 'second order' in European history and how they had to redefine the social and cultural 'spaces' in which they found themselves. By using a transnational and comparative approach to the study of the European nobility, the volume offers exciting new perspectives on this important, if often misunderstood, social group.
Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-07-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230000827 |
The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority: but, in the eighteenth century, that world was becoming increasingly fractured as a result of social and economic developments and new ideas. Since nobles were, in economic terms, an extremely disparate group, ranging from the near destitute to the unimaginably wealthy, how could this ruling class preserve a coherent identity? Was wealth more important than birth or education? How should wealth be retained or accumulated? And what role did women play in shoring up noble pre-eminence? In this wide-ranging study, Jerzy Lukowski addresses these issues, and shows the pressures and tensions - both from governments and from the lower orders - which challenged traditional ruling groups in Europe during the century before the French Revolution. Lukowski explains the basic mechanisms of noble existence and examines how the European aristocracy sought to maintain a sense of solidarity in the midst of widespread change.
Author | : H. Scott |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This collection of authoritative essays by leading national specialists examine the nobility of a particular country or region, on a systematic basis: they analyze the structure of the particular elite, and survey its political and economic activities, as well as the social and ideological basis of its own position and power.
Author | : Anne Duggan |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780851158822 |
The great strength of this collection is its wide range...a valuable work for anyone interested in the social aspects of the medieval nobility. CHOICE Articles on the origins and nature of "nobility", its relationship with the late Roman world, its acquisition and exercise of power, its association with military obligation, and its transformation into a more or less willing instrument of royal government. Embracing regions as diverse as England(before and after the Norman Conquest), Italy, the Iberian peninsula, France, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and the Romano-German empire, it ranges over the whole medieval period from the fifth to the early sixteenth century. Contributors: STUART AIRLIE, MARTIN AURELL, T. N. BISSON, PAUL FOURACRE, PIOTR GORECKI, MARTIN H. JONES, STEINAR IMSEN, REGINE LE JAN, JANET N. NELSON, TIMOTHY A REUTER, JANE ROBERTS, MARIA JOAO VIOLANTE BRANCO, JENNIFER C. WARD
Author | : Hamish M. Scott |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman Limited |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1995-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780582080713 |
The second volume of the survey covers northern, central and eastern Europe - Denmark, Sweden, Brandenburg-Prussia, the Austro-Bohemian lands, Hungary, Poland-Lithuania and Russia.