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A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive estates.
While monarchs wanted to perpetuate a system in which they could watch over members of the regional elite at court and keep them busy, they sought to make use of them as local and provincial administrators, that is, as long as they remained loyal: a fraught balancing act. Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution. Prices from excl. View PDF Flyer. Contents About. He has published books and articles on rural, equine and military history, as well as studies of members of the aristocratic Cavendish family.
Scholars, students, and institutions interested in the political, social, economic, cultural, and military aspects of the early modern history of Europe and beyond, especially special subject students, post-graduates, lecturers and educated laymen.
