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Nobles and Nation in Central Europe: Free Imperial Knights in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (New Studies in European History)

By Jr , William D. Godsey

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0521836182, 9780521836180, 9780511266058
LCC
DD193 .G63 2004
Open Library ID
OL22604426M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2342777 bytes)
Pages
318\320
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

No group better embodied the traditional noble ideal in the late Holy Roman Empire than the pedigreed knights, Protestant and Catholic, of Electoral Mainz. This study traces the transnational "geocultural" landscape in which they thrived and its transformation by social, political and national revolution. It explores the comparative history of the knights who became divided between those who emigrated to the Habsburg Empire (where their geocultural landscape survived) and those who remained in Germany and forged a new identity as nobles in the cultural world of the "nation".

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