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Book Review: Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773–1815

Book Review: Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773–1815 BOOK REVIEWS to court studies, Keller is especially infl uenced by Heide Wunder, Clarissa Campbell Orr, Merry Wiesner, and Natalie Zemon Davis, who have pioneered gender history for the early modern era. Indeed, Keller convincingly buttresses their claims that the modern dichotomy between private and public spheres is anachronistic for the early modern period. Likewise, she maintains that this dichotomy allowed nineteenth- century historians to dismiss most women from the historical record because their world was assumed to be strictly private and, hence, unworthy of historical examination. Furthermore, Keller follows the ex am- ple of Heide Wunder in particular when she discusses the signifi cance of women within the context of familial rather than individual identity. Th is is evident in her discussion of the importance families placed on networking their daughters into the inner “female” court circle where patronage was distributed by the empress. It is not just her mastery of modern scholarship that makes her thesis so compelling; it is also her adroit use of quantitative and qualitative primary sources. Confronting the paucity of remaining quali- tative sources for court women in early-seventeenth-century Vienna, she supplements her qualitative examination of the instructions for offi ces, testaments, marriage http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773–1815

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 2 – Jan 18, 2010
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
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0067-2378
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BOOK REVIEWS to court studies, Keller is especially infl uenced by Heide Wunder, Clarissa Campbell Orr, Merry Wiesner, and Natalie Zemon Davis, who have pioneered gender history for the early modern era. Indeed, Keller convincingly buttresses their claims that the modern dichotomy between private and public spheres is anachronistic for the early modern period. Likewise, she maintains that this dichotomy allowed nineteenth- century historians to dismiss most women from the historical record because their world was assumed to be strictly private and, hence, unworthy of historical examination. Furthermore, Keller follows the ex am- ple of Heide Wunder in particular when she discusses the signifi cance of women within the context of familial rather than individual identity. Th is is evident in her discussion of the importance families placed on networking their daughters into the inner “female” court circle where patronage was distributed by the empress. It is not just her mastery of modern scholarship that makes her thesis so compelling; it is also her adroit use of quantitative and qualitative primary sources. Confronting the paucity of remaining quali- tative sources for court women in early-seventeenth-century Vienna, she supplements her qualitative examination of the instructions for offi ces, testaments, marriage

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Published: Jan 18, 2010

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