Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France : The Rohan Family, 1550 1715

Jonathan (SUNY-Buffalo) Dewald

ISBN 10: 0271066164 / ISBN 13: 9780271066165

Edité par Pennsylvania State University Press Mär 2015, 2015

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Neuware - In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family's needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family-government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes both how the Old Regime's ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

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• Titre: Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France : The Rohan Family, 1550 1715
• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press Mär 2015
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0271066164
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780271066165
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 161 H x 23 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 23 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 502 grammes

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In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family's needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family--government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime's ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Dewald is UB Distinguished Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970 (Penn State, 2006).