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Families, Status and Dynasties: 1600-2000
Setting Out on a Journey
A Brief Introduction
Statuses and their Hierarchies
Status Performances
Families as Histories and in History
Royal Dynasties
Organization into a Status Hierarchy
Marriage and the Imperative of Status Equivalence
The Church's Intervention
Cousin Marriages: The Zenith of High Dynasticity
Offences against Status Equivalence
Mistresses: Love Outside Marriage
Succession after Primogeniture: Another Offence Against Status Equivalence
Living in the Interstices: Younger Princes and Princesses
Extension of the Heyday
The Impending Fall of Status Equivalence
The Triumph of Love over Status Equivalence
Conclusion
Noble Dynasties
Organization into a Status Hierarchy
Elevation to the Nobility
The Highest Rank of the Nobility and the Supremacy of Status Equivalence
Decline of Status: Merging into the Rank and File
Enclaves of Lust
Emergent Change in the Nineteenth Century
The Widening Range of Status Equivalence in Occupations
The Widening Range of Status Equivalence: Marriage
Turning into a Cultural Legacy
Conclusion
Entrepreneurial Dynasties
The Triumphal March of Entrepreneurship
From Peasantry to Entrepreneurship: Local Dynasties
The Entrepreneurial Character
Entrepreneurial Dynasties in the Making—Heredity
Marriages in the Heyday of Entrepreneurial Dynasties
Staying Up and Going Down
Exits from the Firm
Conclusion
The Learned
The Rise of Professionalism
Keeping up Dynasticity: The Clergy
Social Decline
Upward Mobility: Professors
The Remains of Dynasticity
Marriage and Status Equivalence
Conclusion
Artists
The Status Hierarchy of Artists in the Making
The Temptation of Dynasticity
From Dynasticity to Laterality
Succession
The Cultivation of Love
Conclusion
Statuses on the Move
Convergence towards the Middle Ranks
Marriage and Status Equivalence
At One Bound to the Highest Rank
Conclusion
Afterthoughts
Pyramid of Status Hierarchies
Heredity of Status
Choice of Spouse
The Making of Status through Performances
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