La baja nobleza del reino de Valencia durante la baja edad media es un tema que ofrece grandes posibilidades para la investigación, lo que nos permitiría comprender más y mejor la evolución política ...y las relaciones de poder en el dicho reino durante los siglos XIV y XV. Por ello, en este artículo trataremos de analizar el origen y la composición familiar de la baja nobleza de la ciudad de Valencia a finales del siglo XIV y entender la problemática de los bandos y la conflictividad de las élites en este periodo a través de cuestiones como la gestión del patrimonio y las relaciones familiares o de afinidad.
This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the ...effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during the Great Council of Peers in 1640 and the Long Parliament. He also demonstrates how Charles deliberately set out to cultivate his aristocracy as the main bulwark of royal authority, enabling him to go to war against the Scots in 1639 and then build the royalist party which provided the means to fight parliament in 1642. The analysis is framed throughout within a broader study of aristocratic honour and the efforts of the heralds to stabilise the social order.
Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this ...book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France’s past.
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential “revisionist” assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret’s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret’s revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time, they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century’s narrative about eighteenth-century France?
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Centur y will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history.
In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb, Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright.
Late medieval and early modern Scottish history has seen much recent work on 'kingship' and 'lordship'. But the 15th century and the 16th century are usually studied separately. This book brings them ...together in a fitting collection in tribute to Jenny Wormald, one of the few scholars to bridge this divide. Inspired by Jenny's work, the contributors tackle questions including: How far can medieval themes such as 'lordship' function in the late 16th-century world of Reformation and state formation? How did the Scottish realm fit into wider British and European patterns? What did it mean for Scotland to be a 'medieval' kingdom, and when did it cease to be one? The volume contains detailed studies of particular episodes alongside thematic pieces which cover longer periods, while some chapters also range beyond Scotland. It takes stock of the continuities and contrasts between medieval and early modern Scotland, and challenges traditional demarcations between these two periods.?
Key Features
* Novel bridging of separate periods in Scottish history
*Cutting edge work by leading scholars
*Sets Scotland in a broader context
Circolo Medievistico Romano 2017
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17. Januar: Monica Santangelo, Strategie di legittimazione della nobiltà di seggio a Napoli alla fine del XV secolo, untersucht die Besonderheiten des neapolitanischen Adels, der sich zwischen dem ...12. und Anfang des 15. Jh. um die sog. fünf „Seggi“ gebildet hatte. Diese „Seggi“ bezogen sich auf Stadtbezirke Neapels und erfüllten auch administrative Aufgaben. In der aragonesischen Zeit erreichte der Adel das Herr-schaftsmonopol auf lokaler Ebene, während die politische Vertretung des „Seggio del popolo“ aufgehoben wurde. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt sich der Wesenszug des Adels von Neapel darin, dass er einerseits „von unten“ wurzelte und sich andererseits über Reichtum und regis servitium legitimierte. Der Niedergang der aragonesischen Dynastie brachte das Ende des aristokratischen Machtmonopols und Konflikte zwi-schen den alten und neuen „casate di seggio“. Der Adel reagierte darauf mit einer Betonung des engen Bandes zwischen der memoria ihrer Familien und der städti-schen Identität.
Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and of the role of the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance. ...Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period, Spencer challenges traditional interpretations of Edward's reign, showing that his reputed masterfulness has been overplayed and that his kingship was far subtler, and therefore more effective, than this stereotype would suggest. Drawing from key earldoms such as Lincoln, Lancaster, Cornwall and Warenne, the book reveals how nobles created local followings and exercised power at a local level as well as surveying the political, governmental, social and military lives of the earls, prompting us to rethink our perception of their position in thirteenth-century politics. Adopting a powerful revisionist perspective, Spencer presents a major new statement about thirteenth-century England; one which will transform our understanding of politics and kingship in the period.
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia
and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube,
from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a
...springboard for future military operations against Constantinople.
Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy
cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor
Taki's meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed
by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the
crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to
preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive
institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar's
officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube,
providing the building blocks of a nation state.
The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy
was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a
great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period
significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later,
of modern Romania.
From valor to pedigree Schalk, Ellery; Schalk, Ellery
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This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular ...rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state.
Originally published in 1986.
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