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This is a study of Central European nobles in revolution. As one of Germany's richest, most insular and most autonomous nobilities, the Free Knights in Electoral Mainz represented the early modern noble ideal of pure bloodlines and cosmopolitan loyalties in the old society of orders. But this world came to an end with the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in 1792. Quite apart from the social, economic and political dislocations and loss, the era from 1789 to 1815 also meant a cultural reorientation for the nobility. William D. Godsey, Jr. here explores how nobles in post-revolutionary Germany gradually abandoned their old self-understanding and assimilated with the new cultural 'nation' while aristocrats in the Habsburg Empire, which had taken in many emigres from Mainz, moved instead towards supranationalism. This is a major contribution to debates about the relationship between identity, cultural nationalism, supranationalism and religion in Germany and the Habsburg Empire.

Caractéristiques nationales allemandes --- National characteristics [German ] --- Volkskarakter [Duits ] --- Nobility --- Nationalism --- National characteristics, German. --- Noblesse --- Nationalisme --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Caractéristiques nationales allemandes --- National characteristics, German --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- German national characteristics --- Germany --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Arts and Humanities

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Aristocracy (Social class) --- Diplomatic and consular service, Austrian --- Diplomats --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. --- Austria --- Foreign relations

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Über Jahrhunderte hinweg pflegte die in mehreren west- und zentraleuropäischen Ländern reich begüterte Adelsfamilie Arenberg ein Naheverhältnis zum Haus Habsburg. Der Band untersucht die wechselseitigen Verbindungen dieser hochadeligen Familie mit der Habsburgermonarchie auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen und im internationalen Kontext. Die Adelsfamilie Arenberg besaß zahlreiche Güter in der Eifel, den Niederlanden, insbesondere den südlichen Niederlanden, später auch in Reichsitalien, und der Habsburgermonarchie sowie in Frankreich, Hannover und Preußen. Über Jahrhunderte stand sie in enger Beziehung zum Haus Habsburg. Der Fokus des Bandes richtet sich zum einen auf die Präsenz der Arenberg an den habsburgischen Höfen in Wien und Brüssel sowie im habsburgischen Militärdienst, zum anderen auf ihre Rolle in der Vermittlung habsburgischer Herrschaft vor allem in den Österreichischen Niederlanden. Dabei stellt sich die Frage nach Strategien der Macht- und Statusabsicherung sowie des Aufstiegs einer transterritorialen Familie, die lange in den Grenzregionen mehrerer Großreiche – neben der Habsburgermonarchie auch des Heiligen Römischen Reichs und Frankreichs – angesiedelt war. Darüber hinaus widmen sich einige Beiträge dem Leben und Werdegang von Arenberger Frauen, die in der Familienerinnerung weitgehend der Vergessenheit bzw. Diffamierung anheimfielen.

History of Europe --- Arenberg, d' [Dynasty] --- 929.5 ARENBERG --- 929.5 ARENBERG Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Genealogie--ARENBERG --- Aristocratie --- Histoire. --- Arenberg (famille d') --- Habsbourg (dynastie) --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- History --- Arenberg, House of. --- Habsburg, House of. --- Europe, Central --- Europe, Western --- Politics and government.

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"Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance-an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time"--

History --- Coronations --- Austria --- Kings and rulers.