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dc.contributor.authorMARGREITER, Klausen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T12:03:13Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T12:03:13Z
dc.date.created2005en
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2005en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5892
dc.descriptionDefence date: 19 December 2005
dc.descriptionExamining board: Prof. Jaap Dronkers, European University Institute ; Prof. James Van Horn Melton, Emory University ; Prof. Regina Schulte, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Supervisor) ; Prof. Bernd Wunder, Universität Konstanz
dc.descriptionFirst made available online: 26 October 2016
dc.description.abstractIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Central and Western European nobilities underwent a major process of transformation, which affected not only its material basis and the conditions of power. As a result of its changed social profile, its legitimation had to be readjusted in order to meet the demands and the requirements of the Early Modern state. The central feature of its new ideological concept was the assumption that the nobility formes a hereditary ruling class, both qualified for and entitled to power on account of inherited substantial superiority. By using its privilege of ennoblement, the imperial government exerted significant influence on the shaping of a new model nobility, which was intended to be an elite of loyal and dependent subjects. The analysis of contemporary characterisations and definitions of the term nobility and of arguments, given by applicants for ennoblement to prove their claim for noble superiority demonstrate that the entire notion of nobility was gradually changing from a concrete corporate body, legally defined by privileges, towards a status symbol.
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHECen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshDespotism -- Europe -- History
dc.titleKonzept und Bedeutung des Adels im Absolutismusen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/399643
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