Resilient in Adversity. The European Nobility in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830.

逆境中坚韧。

• 批准号: 386400968
• 负责人: Dr. Amerigo Caruso
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung für Geschichte der Neuzeit
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/386400968?language=en
• 关键词: Resilient; Adversity.; European; Nobility; Age

Resilience is the capacity of a system, an enterprise or a person to maintain its core purpose and integrity during dramatically changing circumstances. In analyzing the very slow and gradual erosion of the Old Regime in Revolutionary Europe (1760-1830), the notion of resilience seems more adequate than the static and passive concept of persistence, as described in Arno Mayer's classic work on the aristocratic elites in the long nineteenth century. The idea itself of resilience in fact combines dimensions of change, adaptability and vulnerability, offering a much more nuanced and multi-faceted view of the ongoing process. Furthermore, Reinhart Kosellecks theory of multiple temporalities and the concept of Sattelzeit - the transitional period between the eighteenth and the nineteenth century - provides a solid theoretical framework for comparing resilience-strengthening strategies, ideas and networks employed by the European nobilities.The project aims at filling a long lasting research gap and intends to investigate the resilience shown by European aristocracies during the Sattelzeit in order to overcome adversity. It will examine both social and intellectual dimensions, especially focusing on the complex interaction between political discourses, family strategies and monarchic loyalty. The methodological approach combines prosopographic methods with qualitative analysis. On the one hand, the project will take into account crucial agents of change from a longue durée perspective, studying a group of influential aristocratic families from Denmark, Piedmont, Portugal and Saxony. On the other hand, it will shed light on discourses of legitimacy, on transnational experiences and on resilience-strengthening activities of aristocratic networks during dramatic political crisis and revolutions.Is the paradigm of decline and fall that David Cannadine assumed for the British aristocracy a meaningful reference for continental Europe? Certainly, liberal and revolutionary ideas and networks increasingly spread throughout Europe; however, in the meantime, old elites actively faced the challenge of complementing or reinventing the institutional, cultural and social justification that sustained the previous political order. The consolidated discourse of monarchical loyalty - a military and aristocratic habitus along with paternalism, religious traditions and public service ethos - continued to shape resilience during the nineteenth century. The aristocratic elites made strong efforts to lead political and cultural transformations as long as they presumed to be able to control the revolution. This project aims to attest that the resilience of the European nobility and the monarchical state was a crucial agent of change in the Age of Revolution.

复原力是一个系统、一个企业或一个人在急剧变化的情况下维持其核心目标和完整性的能力。在分析欧洲革命时期（1760-1830年）旧制度的缓慢和逐渐侵蚀时，韧性的概念似乎比阿诺·迈耶（Arno Mayer）在其关于漫长的19世纪贵族精英的经典著作中所描述的静态和被动的持久性概念更合适。复原力的概念本身实际上结合了变化、适应性和脆弱性的各个方面，为正在进行的进程提供了一个更加微妙和多方面的观点。此外，ReinhartKoselleck的多重时间性理论和Sattelzeit的概念-十八和十九世纪之间的过渡时期-提供了一个坚实的理论框架，比较服从加强战略，该项目旨在填补一个长期存在的研究空白，并打算调查欧洲贵族在2005年的Sattelzeit期间所表现出的弹性。为了克服逆境。它将考察社会和知识层面，特别是关注政治话语，家庭战略和君主忠诚之间的复杂互动。方法论的方法相结合的方法与定性分析。一方面，该项目将从长期的角度考虑变革的关键因素，研究来自丹麦、皮埃蒙特、葡萄牙和萨克森的一批有影响力的贵族家庭。另一方面，它将揭示合法性话语、跨国经验以及贵族网络在戏剧性政治危机和革命中的合法性强化活动。大卫·坎那丁为英国贵族所设想的衰落范式对欧洲大陆是否有意义？当然，自由和革命的思想和网络越来越多地在整个欧洲传播;然而，与此同时，旧的精英们积极地面临着补充或重塑维持先前政治秩序的制度、文化和社会理由的挑战。对君主忠诚的统一论述--一种军事和贵族的习惯沿着着家长式作风、宗教传统和公共服务精神--在19世纪继续塑造着复原力。贵族精英在他们认为能够控制革命的情况下，为领导政治和文化变革做出了巨大努力。该项目旨在证明欧洲贵族和君主制国家的韧性是革命时代变革的关键因素。