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Article: Aristocracy and Gentry
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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ARISTOCRACY AND GENTRY
ARISTOCRACY AND GENTRY.
In most European countries society and politics were dominated during the early modern period by the power and influence that nobles enjoyed, either as individuals or as a social group. Noble hegemony was not always uncontested, but by successfully adapting to political and cultural changes and by integrating competing social elites, nobles managed to maintain their dominant position in most cases
until the late eighteenth century. Although noble elites across Europe were defined according to distinct local and national customs and legal criteria, noble men and women from different countries nevertheless tended to recognize each other ...
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