Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 The Spaces of Nobility, Matthew P. Romaniello, Charles Lipp; Chapter 2 The Early Modern European Nobility and its Contested Historiographies, c. 1950?1980, Hamish Scott; Chapter 3 Negotiating for Agnes’ Womb, Erica Bastress-Dukehart; Chapter 4 Contested Masculinity: Noblemen and their Mistresses in Early Modern Spain, Grace E. Coolidge; Chapter 5 Inventing the Courtier in Early Sixteenth-Century Portugal, Susannah Humble Ferreira; Chapter 6 Sepulchral Monuments as a Means of Communicating Social and Political Power of Nobles in Early Modern Russia, Cornelia Soldat; Chapter 7 Il monastero nuovo: Cloistered Women of the Medici Court, Katherine L. Turner; Chapter 8 The Question of the Imprescriptibility of Nobility in Early Modern France, Elie Haddad; Chapter 9 All the King’s Men: Educational Reform and Nobility in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain, Ryan Gaston; Chapter 10 “Of polish’d pillars, or a roofe of gold”: Authority and Affluence in the English Country-House Poem, Sukanya Dasgupta; Chapter 11 Nobility as a Social and Political Dialogue: The Parisian Example, 1650?1750, Mathieu Marraud; Chapter 12 Challenging the Status Quo: Attempts to Modernize the Polish Nobility in the Later Eighteenth Century, Jerzy Lukowski; Chapter 13 Resilient Notables: Looking at the Transformation of the Ottoman Empire from the Local Level, M. Safa Saraco?lu;