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War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria

The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622

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  • © 2003

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  1. Karin J. MacHardy
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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 1-18

  3. Co-ordinating State, Reformation and Elites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Political Culture, Political Space

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 21-46

    3. Religious Reformations and Civil War

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 47-88

    4. Discourse of Division, 1618–20

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 89-122

  4. Court Patronage and Noble Strategies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Social Capital, Symbolic Power and Religious Conflict

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 125-150

    3. Advancing at the Imperial Court

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 151-182

    4. Confessionalizing Court Patronage

      • Karin J. MacHardy
      Pages 183-213

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 214-331
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About this book

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.

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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