Forming Aristocracy
The Reconfiguration of Europe's Nobilities, 1300–1750
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2026
- ISBN 9780199274598
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages720 pages
- Size 240x165x45 mm
- Weight 1296 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 32 page colour plate section 700
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Short description:
The deeds and misdeeds of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on screen or in real life. But who are they, and why do they matter? This ground-breaking book explores the origins and development of early-modern elites, revealing the similarities between the organization and behaviour of leading families all over Europe.
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The deeds (and misdeeds) of aristocrats, past and present, never lose their appeal, whether on our screens or in real life. But who are they, and why do they matter?
Forming Aristocracy is the story of the great aristocratic lineages of Europe: families such as the Salisbury in England, the Campbell in Scotland, the Radziwill in Poland-Lithuania, the Liechtenstein in the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy, the Cond-- in France, and the Medina Sidonia in Spain. They combined exceptional social standing and economic power with great political and cultural influence; in many countries their dominance endured until the opening decades of the twentieth century.
This ground-breaking book is the first to explore the origins and development of this elite and to reveal as never before the similarities between the organization and behaviour of leading families in Britain and all over Europe. Forming Aristocracy examines one central development in Europe's modern history on a truly comparative basis. Extending from Ireland and the British Isles in the west to Russia in the east, and from Sweden in the Baltic to Andalusia in southern Spain, Hamish Scott explains how the aristocracy's dominant position came to be created and sustained. Their success rested upon the adoption of a rigorously imposed strategy, in which every family member had a precise role, which secured the fragile succession to the lands, other resources, and titles on which each lineage's position rested. The book also emphasizes the aristocracy's dominant public role as the principal source of the military commanders, ministers, and administrators who facilitated the emergence of the modern State and, even into the twentieth century, exercised local authority on its behalf.
With exceptional range, leading historian Hamish Scott here brings to life aristocrats both famous and obscure to offer the first integrated explanation for the enduring importance of the social elite over five centuries of Europe's past.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Forming Aristocracy
Part I: The Emergence of Aristocracy
Foundations
Identities
Expansion and Consolidation
Service Aristocracies
Aristocratic Consolidation
Part II: The Consolidation of Aristocracy
Family and Household
Succession and Inheritance
Memory and Identity
Resources and Opportunities
Part III: The Public Role of the Aristocracy
An Aristocratic Church
Courts
Warfare
Governance
Coda: The Endurance of Aristocracy, c.1750-1880/1914
