War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria

MacHardy, Karin J.

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Author
MacHardy, Karin J.
Publish Date
2002-12-17
Subtitle
The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
xiii, 331
Publisher Name
5376
ISBN-10
0333572416
ISBN-13
9780333572412
citemno
275003
Edition
2003
SKU
9780333572412

Description

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620.