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Hardback. New. Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor sovereign house, they represent a cadre of early modern elites who are difficult to categorise neatly: neither fully sovereign princes nor fully subject nobility. They might have spent most of their time in one state, France, but their interests were always 'trans-national'; contested spaces far from the major centres of monarchical power - from the Ardennes to the Italian peninsula - were frequent theatres of activity for semi-sovereign border families such as the Lorraine-Guise. This nexus of activity, and the interplay between princely status and representation, is the subject of this book.…
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Aspiration, Representation and Memory: The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688 Hardcover - 2015
by Jessica Munns (Editor); Penny Richards (Editor); Jonathan W. Spangler (Editor)
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- Title Aspiration, Representation and Memory: The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688
- Author Jessica Munns (Editor); Penny Richards (Editor); Jonathan W. Spangler (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition New edition
- Pages 226
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2015
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781472419347 / 1472419340
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- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Renaissance Studies
- Library of Congress subjects Nobility - France, France - Politics and government - 16th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014037445
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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