War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria: The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: Co-ordinating State, Reformation and Elites......Page 34
1 Political Culture, Political Space......Page 36
The rise of co-ordinating states......Page 37
Geopolitics and territorial consolidation......Page 40
Coalescent infrastructures: military and financial administrations......Page 44
Bargaining over judicial competence......Page 51
2 Religious Reformations and Civil War......Page 62
Lutheran reformation, church patronage and compromise......Page 64
Confessionalization and conflict over church property......Page 72
Toward civil war......Page 81
Loyalists and noble opposition in lower Austria: a profile......Page 91
3 Discourse of Division, 1618–20......Page 104
Endowments and defining the Catholic other......Page 106
Security, tyranny and resistance......Page 111
Instruments of security: Austrian and Bohemian Confederations......Page 119
\'One God, one prince, one law’: the Catholic response......Page 123
Conclusion to Part I......Page 132
Part II: Court Patronage and Noble Strategies......Page 138
4 Social Capital, Symbolic Power and Religious Conflict......Page 140
Social capital, symbolic power and social conflict......Page 141
Type-preserving changes of the social structure......Page 149
Confessionalizing the struggle over social classification......Page 151
5 Advancing at the Imperial Court......Page 166
Centres of patronage and career opportunities......Page 167
Producing economic, social and symbolic capital at court......Page 174
Cultural capital and noble identity......Page 179
Redefining virtue and the conversion of cultural capital......Page 190
6 Confessionalizing Court Patronage......Page 198
Rechannelling patronage at the Imperial court......Page 199
Unfulfilled ambitions: career advancement of provincial nobles......Page 202
The redistribution of landed property......Page 216
Conclusion to Part II......Page 225
Notes and References......Page 229
Bibliography......Page 293
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