The Servants Power. Domestics in Courtiers Households. Prussia, Saxony and France, 16th-18th Centuries

宫廷和高贵的生活方式在很大程度上是由女仆的存在形成的。家庭佣人和主人/情妇之间不对称的等级关系基本上塑造了早期现代社会。但与此同时，这种不平等之间的社会关系是在互动中协商的，以至于等级制度可能会变得可疑。该项目将从其边缘分析法庭设置，更具体地：朝臣和他们的女仆之间的互动。因此，在早期现代屈从社会的背景下，焦点是统治者的仆人。由于该项目的第一部分分析了普鲁士和萨克森的法院，第二部分将以两种方式扩大这一布局。首先，将法国作为进一步调查的地区，选择了一个明显不同的社会、经济和政治背景，在比较方面承诺了有价值的调查结果。其次，该项目第一部分的重要发现提出了进一步的问题。特别是从属、赞助和服务与替代社区建设形式(如佣人行会)之间的关联和相应的分离，需要进行系统的研究。这些发现表明，社会关系重复，但同时也使贵族家庭支离破碎。这对于服务中的权力关系和宫廷社会中的权力关系，以及在历史转型中这种政治关系的形成都应该是重要的。

Courtly and noble ways of life were largely formed by the presence of domestics. The asymmetric, hierarchical relationship between domestics and master/mistress shaped essentially early modern societies. But at the same moment, this social relationship between unequals was negotiated in interaction up to the point that the hierarchies could become dubious. The project will analyse the court setting from its margins, and more specific: the interactions between courtiers and their domestics. In the focus are therefore the servants of the servants of the ruler in the context of early modern societies of subservience. As the first part of the project has analysed the courts in Prussia and Saxony, the second part will enlarge this layout in two ways. Firstly, taking France as a further region of investigation, a clearly distinct social, economic and political setting is chosen, that promises valuable findings in comparative respect. Secondly, important findings in the first part of the project raise further questions. Especially the correlation and accordingly the dissociation of subjection, patronage and service and alternative community-building formations (such as servant-guilds) demand methodic investigation. These findings suggest a duplication of social relations, but simultaneously fragmenting the noble household. This should be of importance regarding the power relations in service and in court society and regarding the shaping of the political as such in historical transformation.