Table of Contents
Contents: The spaces of nobility, Matthew P. Romaniello and Charles Lipp; The early modern nobility and its contested historiographies, c.1950–1980, Hamish Scott; Negotiating for Agnes's womb, Erica Bastress-Dukehart; Contested masculinity: noblemen and their mistresses in early modern Spain, Grace E. Coolidge; Inventing the courtier in early 16th-century Portugal, Susannah Humble Ferreira; Sepulchral monuments as a means of communicating social and political power of nobles in early modern Russia, Cornelia Soldat; Il monastero nuovo: cloistered women of the Medici court, Katherine L. Turner; The question of the imprescriptibility of nobility in early modern France, Elie Haddad; All the king's men: educational reform and nobility in early 17th-century Spain, Ryan Gaston; 'Of polish'd pillars or a roofe of gold': authority and affluence in the English country-house poem, Sukanya Dasgupta; Nobility as a social and political dialogue: the Parisian example, 1650–1750, Mathieu Marraud; Challenging the status quo: attempts to modernize the Polish nobility in the later 18th century, Jerzy Lukowski; Resilient notables: looking at the transformation of the Ottoman empire from the local level, M. Safa Saraçoglu; Index.