Search for dissertations about: "Fabian Persson"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Fabian Persson.

2. 1. Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721

   Author : Fabian Persson; Eva Österberg; MJ Rodriguez-Salgado; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; aristocracy; informal power; patronage; prosopography; Court; royal household; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History; Historia;

   Abstract : In what has been seen as an age of increasing bureaucratisation, did it matter who was close to the monarch? Since the monarch embodied supreme wordly power, the way in which daily life at court was organised was of great importance. One function of the early modern court was, in the words of Geoffrey Elton, to act as a point of contact between monarch and élite. READ MORE