This book offers a new paradigm of the history of the German nobility in the early modern period. It shows that, contrary to the prevailing view, the nobility was not in a period of crisis that facilitated the rise of the state. Rather, the nobility underwent a process of social stratification in the wake of the growth of the state. This process led to the formation of an elite of wealthy noble families on whose cooperation the state depended. This alliance, and not a presumed partnership between rulers and bourgeoisie, was the driving force in early modern Germany.
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This book offers a new paradigm of the history of the German nobility in the early modern period. It shows that, contrary to the prevailing view, the nobility was not in a period of crisis that facilitated the rise of the state. Rather, the nobility underwent a process of social stratification in the wake of the growth of the state. This process led to the formation of an élite of wealthy noble families on whose co-operation the state depended. This alliance, and not a presumed partnership between rulers and bourgeoisie, was the driving force in early modern Germany.
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Ansbacher Historica, Otto Brunner, Ritterschaftliche Herrschaftswahrung, Christoph Fuchs, Middle Ages, Konrad Schott, Ulrich von Hutten, Gerhard Rechter, Ein Beitrag, Margrave Albrecht, Kurt Andermann, Lehenhof des Hochstifts, Veit von Vestenberg, Hans-Peter Baum, Christoph von Giech, Common Penny, Reichsstadt Nürnberg, Margrave Friedrich, Die Landstände des Hochstifts Würzburg, Rolf Sprandel, Lorenz Fries, Ernst Schubert, Frühen Neuzeit, Joseph Morsel, Rudolf Endres Browse Sample Pages:
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