War, Religion and Court Patronage in Habsburg Austria

KARIN J. MACHARDY is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has published numerous articles on the early modern nobility and on historical methodology, and is co-editor of Fact and Fiction: German History and Literature, 1848-1924.

• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: COORDINATING STATE, REFORMATION AND ELITES Political Culture, Political Space Religious Reformations and Civil War Discourse of Division, 1618-20 Conclusion to Part I PART II: COURT PATRONAGE AND NOBLE STRATEGIES Social Capital, Symbolic Power and Religious Conflict Advancing at the Imperial Court Confessionalizing Court Patronage Conclusion to Part II Notes and References Bibliography Author Index Subject Index