Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Matthew P. Romaniello, Charles Lipp. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011. - xi, 298 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Saraçoglu.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Nobility--History.--Europe
Spatial behavior--History.--Europe
Self-protective behavior--Social aspects--History.--Europe
Contests--Social aspects--History.--Europe
Power (Social sciences)--History.--Europe
Dominance (Psychology)--History.--Europe
Social change--History.--Europe


Europe--Social conditions--16th century.
Europe--Social conditions--17th century.
Europe--Social conditions--18th century.


Electronic books.

HT653.E9 / R66 2011

305.5/22094