Noble strategies in an early modern small state : the Mahuet of Lorraine / Charles T. Lipp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipp, Charles T.

Series:

Changing perspectives on early modern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nobility--France--Lorraine--History--17th century.

Nobility.

Nobility--France--Lorraine--History--18th century.

Mahuet family.

History.

Lorraine (France)--History--17th century.

Lorraine (France).

Lorraine (France)--History--18th century.

France--Lorraine.

Physical Description:

viii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2011.

Summary:

Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State addresses a subject few pother scholars of early modern Europe attempt: the hundreds of small states that made up the overwhelming majority of Europe's political entities before the nineteenth century. Author Charles Lipp studies the elite of the duchy of Lorraine, a territory strategically placed geographically and culturally along the frontiers diving France and Germany, and a region contested for centuries by the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire and the Valois and Bourbons of the kingdom of France. Rather than focus on either the dukes of Lorraine or dynasties like the Guise or the Bassompierre, as other studies have dine, this volume analyzes a family belonging to the lower nobility, the Mahuet, over several generations, from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. The book explotes how this family rose to social prominence during a chaotic period in their homeland's history, a time marked by foreign invasion, military occupation, and an outbreak of the plague among other trials. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : a more typical portrait

Becoming noble in a small state

An uncertain exile : Marc-Antoine de Mahuet in the court of Charles of Lorraine

Surviving the Sun King : the Mahuet in French-occupied Lorraine

The limits to success : Jean-François de Mahuet and the grand prévôté de Saint-Di?

Conclusion : strategies of status and small-state nobles

Appendixes: Genealogies of the Mahuet, Dattel, Richard, and d'Hoffelize families; The dukes of Lorraine, 1473-1737; A statistical survey of the Lorrain anoblis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781580463966

1580463967

OCLC:

704381396