Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one
use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is
the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such
questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not
simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather,
they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities,
relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold
challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open
pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of
deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes.
Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV addresses this
challenge by investigating status interaction - in dress as in
address, in high ceremony and in everyday life - at one of its most
important historical arenas: aristocratic society at the time of
Louis XIV. By recovering actual practices on the ground based on a
wide array of printed and manuscript sources, it transcends the
simplistic view of a court revolving around the Sun King and
reveals instead the multiple perspectives of contesting actors,
stakes, and strategies. Demonstrating the wide-ranging implications
of the phenomenon, macro-political as well as micro-political, this
study provides a novel framework for understanding early modern
action and agency.
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