Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV (The Past & Present Book Series)

Sternberg, Giora

ISBN 10: 0199640343 / ISBN 13: 9780199640348

Edité par Oxford University Press, 2014

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR013909644

Synopsis :

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes.

Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV addresses this challenge by investigating status interaction - in dress as in address, in high ceremony and in everyday life - at one of its most important historical arenas: aristocratic society at the time of Louis XIV. By recovering actual practices on the ground based on a wide array of printed and manuscript sources, it transcends the simplistic view of a court revolving around the Sun King and reveals instead the multiple perspectives of contesting actors, stakes, and strategies. Demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the phenomenon, macro-political as well as micro-political, this study provides a novel framework for understanding early modern action and agency.

À propos de l?auteur: Giora Sternberg is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College and Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, and an MA in History and a BSc in Computer Science and Humanities from Tel Aviv University.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis...
Éditeur : Oxford University Press
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good