What Makes the Nobility Noble? Comparative Perspectives from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
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Jörn Leonhard
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Christian Wieland, Jörn Leonhard
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What Makes the Nobility Noble? Comparative Perspectives from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
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Vandenhoeck& Ruprecht Unipress
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9783647310411
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Schriftenreihe der FRIAS School of History
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1
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CHF 83.90
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Neuzeit bis 1918
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English
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396
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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.
PD Dr. Christian Wieland ist Heisenberg-Stipendiat der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft am Historischen Seminar der Universität Frankfurt. Zur Zeit ist er Senior Visiting Research Fellow am St John's College, Oxford.
Table of Contents
5
Noble Identities from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
7
Nobility and Law
33
The Violence of the Nobility and the Peaceableness of the Law
35
Konjunkturen des Duells
52
Noble Honour and the Force of Law
67
Gerichtsherrschaft, Fideikommiss und Verein
90
Nobility and Politics
119
Feuds for and against Princes
121
“Ut unusquisque qui vellet, ad illum venire possit”
142
Rohan’s World
164
Caste or Class?
178
Adeliges Politisieren vor Ort
188
Eine rein bürgerliche Nation?
201
Kommentar
218
Nobility and Aesthetics
225
Muße oder Distinktion?
227
Kulturelle Kommunität und Distanz
239
Die Imagination von Autonomie, Größe und Dauer
255
Hyacinthe Rigaud’s Portrait of Gaspard de Gueidan
279
Erzählungen vom Ende
299
Concluding Summary
327
What Makes the Nobility Noble?
329
List of Illustrations
341
Bibliography
343
List of Authors
387
Personenregister
389
Ortsregister
395
