This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years’ War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views state-building as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620.
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Karin J. MacHardy is Lecturer, Department of History, University of Waterloo, Canada.
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Most Habsburg historians agree that the medieval or feudal political order had been transformed by the late fifteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old upper nobility, new baronage, other hereditary lands, princely servants, dynastic reproduction, statist capital, old baronage, archducal court, infrastructural reach, confessional parity, court treasury, landless members, early modern rulers, sovereign towns, early modern monarchs, educated commoners, religious concessions, infrastructural power, clientage networks, country nobility, court patronage, social disciplining, service nobility, sub utraque, composite monarchies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Protestant Estates, Estate of Lords, Austrian Estates, Inner Austria, Upper Austria, Bohemian Estates, Peace of Augsburg, Imperial Aulic, Paul Sixtus, Austrian Habsburgs, Catholic Estates, Emperor Rudolf, Holy Roman Empire, Archduke Ferdinand, Bohemian Protestants, Counter Reformation, Archduke Ernst, Bohemian Confederation, Imperial Diet, First Estate, Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl, Johann Baptist, Middle Ages, Second Vindication, Archduke Karl New!
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Most Habsburg historians agree that the medieval or feudal political order had been transformed by the late fifteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old upper nobility, new baronage, other hereditary lands, princely servants, dynastic reproduction, statist capital, old baronage, archducal court, infrastructural reach, confessional parity, court treasury, landless members, early modern rulers, sovereign towns, early modern monarchs, educated commoners, religious concessions, infrastructural power, clientage networks, country nobility, court patronage, social disciplining, service nobility, sub utraque, composite monarchies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Protestant Estates, Estate of Lords, Austrian Estates, Inner Austria, Upper Austria, Bohemian Estates, Peace of Augsburg, Imperial Aulic, Paul Sixtus, Austrian Habsburgs, Catholic Estates, Emperor Rudolf, Holy Roman Empire, Archduke Ferdinand, Bohemian Protestants, Counter Reformation, Archduke Ernst, Bohemian Confederation, Imperial Diet, First Estate, Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl, Johann Baptist, Middle Ages, Second Vindication, Archduke Karl New!
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- The Court Society (Collected Works of Norbert Elias 2) by Norbert Elias on 4 pages
- Rational Choice (Readings in Social & Political Theory) by Jon Elster in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Thirty Years War by Josef V. Polisensky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe (Nineteenth Century) by Karin Maag in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics) by Baldesar Castiglione on page 173, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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