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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
- ISSN
- 0067-2378
- eISSN
- 1558-5255
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0067237800021627
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 38 2007 highlights the major diff erences for Godsey. Th e German context represented the change to modernity, the new conceptualization of nobility within the German cultural nation, whereas the Habsburg context is the other side of the coin. Th is part of his argument is less convincing. Th e caesura that dissolves the knights as a corporate group, the changes in society and intellectual life, aff ected the Habsburg nobility as well. What kind of caesura does the revolution really mean for status and estate? How do they relate to other classes? Th ere is a tendency here to overemphasize the uniformity in identity among the Habsburg aristocracy. Th ose who attended court were certainly bound by the standards of pedigree that access to the center of power implied. On the other hand, the upper crust of Viennese elite included families from across the Habsburg territories and not all were equally part of and enamored of the corporate identity that Godsey describes. Moreover, I would question his argument that “modern cultural nations had not come about by the early nineteenth century in the Habsburg Monarchy” (253). In addition, there are terms that require more explanation.
Journal
Austrian History Yearbook – Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18, 2010