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PRINCELY POWER IN THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
PATRONAGE AND WILLIAM FREDERICK OF NASSAU (1613-64) |
| By: |
Geert H. Janssen, J. C. Grayson (Trans), Joseph Bergin |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719077583 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719077586 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2008 |
| Series: |
Studies in Early Modern European History |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Translated from: |
Dutch; Flemish |
| Description: |
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). -- . |
| Synopsis: |
Based on one of the richest surviving diaries of the Dutch Golden Age, Princely Power in the Dutch Republic recaptures the social world of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664). As a Stadholder and relative of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick was among the key players in a fragmented republican state system. This study offers a vivid analysis of his political strategies and reveals how unwritten codes of patronage guided his daily contacts and shaped his mental world. As a patron at his court and as a client of the Prince of Orange, William Frederick developed distinctive patronage roles, appropriate to different social spheres. By assessing these different roles, Janssen provides a unique insight into the ways in which a seventeenth-century nobleman negotiated and articulated clientage, friendship and corruption in his life.This study offers an in-depth analysis of political practices in the Dutch Republic and reconsiders the way in which patronage shaped early modern politics, affected religious divisions and framed social identities. -- . |
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Illustrations, black & white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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