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Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy (Social class). --- Politics and government. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Power (Social sciences). --- History --- To 1500. --- Europe --- Iberian Peninsula --- Politics and government

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Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies from France, Italy, the Empire and the Swiss Confederation, the essays collected by Mathieu Caesar in this volume highlight how factions were formed and how they shaped political society from the late Middle Ages. The authors have especially focused on how political and religious ideologies contributed to the formation of partisanship, the role of propaganda, and the significance and strategies of factional leaders. The volume shows how factions, despite the generally negative view of them held by theologians and jurists, were in practice accepted and used as political tools.

History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy (Social class). --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Elite (Social sciences). --- History --- Europe. --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- History.

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The lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and Restoration of the monarchy. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections: Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England brings together a series of interrelated essays that present William Cavendish, his family, household and connections as an aristocratic, royalist case study, relating the intellectual and political underpinnings and implications of their beliefs, actions and writings to wider cultural currents in England and mainland Europe.

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Flexibilisation --- Family --- Health --- Computer science --- Labour --- Working hours --- Government --- Government policy --- Social class --- Trade unions --- Companies --- Policy --- Care work --- Book --- United Kingdom

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A study, edition, and translation of the story of two independent Upper Rhine women living a spiritual life together. Lady Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenberg (d. 1335) was a noble widow who lived a spiritual, but secular life in her own household, first in Offenburg and later in Strasbourg, the economic and cultural heart of southern Germany. Her life story was written by a lay woman from Gertrude's entourage and was based on numerous stories told by Gertrude's lifelong companion, Heilke of Staufenberg (d. after 1335). The biographer gives us a view of the aristocratic household, reports the many conversations that the women held with fellow believers and learned mendicants, and shows how they led a life of devotion in their own home, but at the same time, operated as full citizens of the city, taking part in both the civic and religious politics of Strasbourg. The details of her account reveal that the women did not take vows or renounce their possessions. They did not abandon their own decision-making power. Instead, they were mistresses of their own lives and developed into 'ethicae' of stature.00Following historical investigations into Gertrude's and Heilke's life (Part I) is an edition and translation of the fourteenth-century text on which these studies are based (Part II).

Christian life --- Nobility --- History --- Religious life --- Rickeldey, Gertrude. --- Heilke, --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Christians --- Discipleship --- Christianity --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Theology, Practical --- Christian spirituality --- Heilke of Staufenberg --- Gertrud von Ortenberg --- anno 1300-1399 --- High Rhine --- Christian life. --- Religious life. --- To 1500 --- Germany. --- Spiritual life --- Middle Ages