The culture of merit : nobility, royal service, and the making of absolute monarchy in France, 1600-1789 / Jay M. Smith.
1996
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Title
The culture of merit : nobility, royal service, and the making of absolute monarchy in France, 1600-1789 / Jay M. Smith.
Created/published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.
Description
vii, 305 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Studies in medieval and early modern civilization
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-297) and index.
Contents
Merit and the personal modality of service
Family and the personal modality
State formation and the culture of royal service in the age of Louis
Through the eyes of the king : merit, service, and the state in the age of Louis XIV
Extending the sovereign's gaze in the eighteenth century : merit, nobility, and the army
Military reform in the later eighteenth century : birth, merit, and the gaze of absolute monarchy
Conclusion : from the sovereign's gaze to the gaze of sovereignty.
Family and the personal modality
State formation and the culture of royal service in the age of Louis
Through the eyes of the king : merit, service, and the state in the age of Louis XIV
Extending the sovereign's gaze in the eighteenth century : merit, nobility, and the army
Military reform in the later eighteenth century : birth, merit, and the gaze of absolute monarchy
Conclusion : from the sovereign's gaze to the gaze of sovereignty.
Series
Studies in medieval and early modern civilization.
Call number
DC33.4 S55 1996