Nobility (Early modern period)

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Abstract: Anyone who in the early modern period wished to claim a heroic reputation or portray a past figure as a hero had to go by the norms of a strongly stratified society based on a hierarchy of different estates. Not everyone could be turned into a hero in quite the same way. In order to qualify as a fit subject for the process of heroization at all, a potential hero generally needed to have certain social qualities, including for instance a ‘noble’ birth and a noble lifestyle. In most European countries, the military hero of bourgeois or even sub-bourgeois origins did not become widespread until after the French Revolution, and even in some cases not until the later 19th century. To be able to point to heroic ancestors or one’s own heroic deeds was thus also a means of social distinction in early modern Europe. The principles that defined the social hierarchy were at least partially negotiated in the debate over heroes and heroic deeds. The figure of the hero is therefore of fundamental importance for the nobility in this era, just as, conversely, the common notions of the heroic in this time period are to be understood only in relation to the nobility’s attempts to achieve and secure some kind of cultural hegemony

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Edition
1.0, published 14 December 2022
Language
Englisch

Classification
Geschichte Europas
Keyword
Adel
Frühe Neuzeit
Militär
Held
Nationalismus
Ritter
Ständegesellschaft
Verbürgerlichung
Frankreich
Großbritannien

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Freiburg
(who)
Universität
(when)
2023
Creator
Contributor

DOI
10.6094/heroicum/nempe1.0.20221214
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2333896
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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