Status, power, and identity in early modern France : the Rohan family, 1550-1715

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Status, power, and identity in early modern France : the Rohan family, 1550-1715

Jonathan Dewald

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index

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In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family's needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family-government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime's ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.

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Contents List of Illustrations Preface Note on the Text Introduction 1. Constructing Status: Family Narratives, Family Myths 2. Constructing Identity: Henri de Rohan, 1579-1638 3. Women, Gender, and the Management of Dynastic Capital 4. Material Contexts: Wealth, Income, Strategies 5. Followers and Servants: Aristocracy as Collective Practice Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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