Titlebook: War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria; The Social and Cultu Karin J. MacHardy Book 2003 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Confessionalizing Court Patronagee court very much, either before or after the Battle of the White Mountain.. Instead, they have concentrated on the impact of defeat on the Protestant opposition in Bohemia, and in particular on the distribution of noble landholdings. This is unsatisfactory, because the changes induced by Habsburg p

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Book 2003ive 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 confes