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Renaissance Dynasticism and Apanage Politics : Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, 1531-1585 / Matthew Vester.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Modern Studies ; 9Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271091136
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944/.585028092 23
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  • DG618.4 .V48 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Portraits, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dynasties and Political Culture in Renaissance Europe -- 2. Violence and Honor: Jacques de Savoie in the Service of Henry II, 1546-1558 -- 3. Honor, Sexuality, and Marriage in the Françoise de Rohan Scandal -- 4. Treaties, Tragedy, Tumults, and the First War of Religion, 1558-1563 -- 5. The Apanage of the Genevois and Its New Duchess, 1564-1566 -- 6. Renaissance Warrior and Courtier, ca. 1566-1570 -- 7. Dynastic Prestige, A Self-Regulating Mechanism: Dynastic Relations among Members of the House of Savoy -- 8. Local Political Autonomy in the Apanage of the Genevois -- 9. Conflicts of the Late 1570s -- 10. Piedmontese Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: One of the most brilliant courtiers and military leaders in Renaissance France, Jacques de Savoie, duke of Nemours, was head of the cadet branch of the house of Savoy, a dynasty that had ruled over a collection of lands in the Western Alps since the eleventh century. Jacques' cousin Emanuel Filibert, duke of Savoy and ruler of the Sabaudian lands, fought against Jacques, and each expanded their influence at the other's expense, while also benefitting from the other's position. This study examines the complex and rich relationship of the noble cousins that spanned the battlefields, bedchambers, courts, and backrooms of taverns from Paris to Turin to the frontiers between the Genevois and Geneva. Each prince played key roles in sixteenth-century European politics due to their individual and dynastic identities. Jacques' apanage of the Genevois was a virtual state-within-a-state, the institutional expression of a simultaneously competitive and cooperative relationship between two branches of a sovereign house. Here Matthew Vester provides a new picture of the nobility and of the European political landscape that moves beyond old views and taps into the unspoken cultural rules governing dynastic relations.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Portraits, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Dynasties and Political Culture in Renaissance Europe -- 2. Violence and Honor: Jacques de Savoie in the Service of Henry II, 1546-1558 -- 3. Honor, Sexuality, and Marriage in the Françoise de Rohan Scandal -- 4. Treaties, Tragedy, Tumults, and the First War of Religion, 1558-1563 -- 5. The Apanage of the Genevois and Its New Duchess, 1564-1566 -- 6. Renaissance Warrior and Courtier, ca. 1566-1570 -- 7. Dynastic Prestige, A Self-Regulating Mechanism: Dynastic Relations among Members of the House of Savoy -- 8. Local Political Autonomy in the Apanage of the Genevois -- 9. Conflicts of the Late 1570s -- 10. Piedmontese Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index

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One of the most brilliant courtiers and military leaders in Renaissance France, Jacques de Savoie, duke of Nemours, was head of the cadet branch of the house of Savoy, a dynasty that had ruled over a collection of lands in the Western Alps since the eleventh century. Jacques' cousin Emanuel Filibert, duke of Savoy and ruler of the Sabaudian lands, fought against Jacques, and each expanded their influence at the other's expense, while also benefitting from the other's position. This study examines the complex and rich relationship of the noble cousins that spanned the battlefields, bedchambers, courts, and backrooms of taverns from Paris to Turin to the frontiers between the Genevois and Geneva. Each prince played key roles in sixteenth-century European politics due to their individual and dynastic identities. Jacques' apanage of the Genevois was a virtual state-within-a-state, the institutional expression of a simultaneously competitive and cooperative relationship between two branches of a sovereign house. Here Matthew Vester provides a new picture of the nobility and of the European political landscape that moves beyond old views and taps into the unspoken cultural rules governing dynastic relations.

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