Status Interaction During the Reign of Louis XIV - Sternberg, Giora
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Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes.…mehr

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Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes.
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Giora Sternberg is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College and Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, and an MA in History and a BSc in Computer Science and Humanities from Tel Aviv University.