Status Interaction During the Reign of Louis XIV

Studies the way in which status symbols operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power in the hierarchical world of Louis XIV's court.

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.

- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: The Marriage of 1679: High Ceremonies as Multifaceted Status Interactions
- 2: The affaire des siÃ-ges: The Anatomy of Ceremonial Crisis
- 3: The Battles of the Mantles: Ceremonial Gear and Status Conflict
- 4: To Wear or Not To Wear? Mantled Visits in the Early Eighteenth Century
- 5: The Duality of Service: Between Honour and Humiliation, between Primary and Secondary Functions
- 6: Epistolary Ceremonial: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: The Royal House of Bourbon, 1643-1715
- Appendix II: The CondÃ(c)-Gourville Correspondence
- Appendix III: Train-Length and Train-Bearing in Bourbon Funerary Services at Saint-Denis and at Notre Dame, 1643-1715
- Appendix IV: A Schematised Hierarchy of Free-Address Forms
- Bibliography
- Index