Nobles and Nation in Central Europe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521836180)

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".

Author: William D. Jr. Godsey
ISBN-10: 0521836182
ISBN-13: 9780521836180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2004
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.11w x 0.99d