Word of Honor: From Conception to Old Age

by Kristen B. Neuschel

In this boldly innovative synthesis of political history and interdisciplinary social history, Kristen B. Neuschel revises our understanding of politics in early modern Europe. Drawing on the methods of the linguist and the ethnographer, Neuschel shows that early modern nobles must, like the common people of that period, be approached as having a mentalit very different from our own. In particular, she argues that the world view of these nobles was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801421810
• ISBN13: 9780801421815
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.