Die 'Kunst Des Adels' in Der Fruhen Neuzeit [German]

by Claudius Sittig

English summary: In early modern Europe, membership in the nobility was not only a matter of social status, a rank one automatically achieved by virtue of "high birth," but rather the individuals within this social group (and those who aspired to it) had to be validated frequently through specific actions and demeanor, as well as compete with other members of the nobility and against their non-aristocratic contemporaries. These performative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3447104864
• ISBN13: 9783447104869
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.