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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 October 2009
      08 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511583223
      9780521561792
      9780521522656
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583223
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 250 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History
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    One of the most striking features of late medieval and early modern German was the countless feuds carried out by nobles. A constant threat to law and order, these feuds have commonly been regarded as a manifestation of the decline - economic and otherwise - of the nobility. This study shows that the nobility was not in crisis at this time. Nor were feuds merely banditry by another name. Rather, they were the result of an interplay between two fundamental processes: princely state-building, and social stratification among the nobility. Offering a new paradigm for understanding the German nobility, this book argues that the development of the state made proximity to princes the single most decisive factor in determining the fortune of a family. The result was a violent competition among the nobility over resources which were crucial to the princes. Feuds played a central role in this struggle that eventually led to the formation of an elite of noble families on whose power and wealth the princely state depended.

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    "...Zmora does a sound job of proving the linkage between territorial state-building and noble feuding." Choice

    "It is an exceptionally intersting story, told if not always with crystalline clarity, told nonetheless with verve and authority." Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

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