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This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Co-ordinating State, Reformation and Elites
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Front Matter
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Court Patronage and Noble Strategies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About the author
KARIN J. MACHARDY is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published numerous articles on the early modern nobility and on historical methodology, and is co-editor of Fact and Fiction: German History and Literature, 1848-1924.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria
Book Subtitle: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622
Authors: Karin J. MacHardy
Series Title: Studies in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230536760
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-57241-2Published: 17 December 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39087-8Published: 01 January 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-53676-0Published: 02 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-2053
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 331
Topics: European History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History, History of Medieval Europe, History of Early Modern Europe