Anna Nilsson Hammar, Svante Norrhem

Serving Aristocracy

Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community

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Produktbeschreibung

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032397283
• ISBN-10: 1032397284
• Artikelnr.: 71847349

Autorenporträt

Anna Nilsson Hammar is Researcher in History at Lund University. She is the author and editor of several books and articles on the history of knowledge, early modern history, and everyday life, among them Servants as Creditors: Navigating the Moral Economy of an Early Modern Aristocratic Household (2022). Svante Norrhem is Associate Professor of History at Lund University. He is the author of several books and articles on early modern gender history, diplomacy and servants, among them Knowing How: Estate Management, Practical Knowledge, and Agency Among Aristocratic Women in Early Modern Sweden (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The De la Gardie sphere in context: Workplaces
palaces
and estates 2 Negotiating worth: Petitions
back pay
and benefits 3 Cogs in the wheel: Bureaucracy
administration
and the organization of knowledge 4 Know your place: Rules
resistance
and the materiality of hierarchies 5 For future betterment: Learning
expertise
and the art of planning 6 The mobility of servants: Networks and knowledge 7 Life in an early modern knowledge community: Concluding remarks