Description
About the Author
Giora Sternberg began his academic studies at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, where he completed a BSc in Computer Science and Humanities, and an MA in History. He then came to Oxford for a DPhil in History. Following three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he returned to Oxford in 2012 to take up his position at Hertford and at the Faculty of History.
Reviews
Giora Sternberg has made an exceedingly impressive debut ... It will be an indispensable work on the political culture for anyone researching the governmental or elite social history of France for years to come, and also ... for those who will look at other states in the old regime period * Guy Rowlands, History *
The expression "status interaction" so cogently summarizes a crucial element of social and cultural reality that it will undoubtedly enter into the historiography, marking the success of this well-documented and richly suggestive study. * Matthew Vester, H-France Review *
scholarship of the very highest order ... This is one of these very rare books which might have been two or three times as long. It will require constant re-reading, so numerous and complex are its insights and so profound its importance * Hamish Scott, European History Quarterly *
successful in deciphering the language of the court, and most importantly, by testing its effect on the ground, and charting the consequences of such exchanges ... What emerges is an enriched view of court dynamics, as we are guided through the ever-shifting and malleable social world of the early modern courtier. Sternberg has also presented an impressive reading of sources and a dissection of a number of key aspects of status symbolism * Linda Kiernan, Reviews in History *
This is, without doubt, an important piece of scholarship ... [Sternberg] has a facility with language and phrasing which is not only clear and lucid but often enlivens the narrative ... a commendable achievement, which offers a new perspective on an old topic. * P. McCluskey, English Historical Review *
What Sternberg supplies are so many of the glorious details to understanding the fine mechanics of Louis XIV's Versailles and the court society. * Journal of Modern History *
Awards
Winner of Shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize.
Book Information
ISBN 9780198754350
Author Giora Sternberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 354g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 12mm