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court: a standalone construct

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Sociology and social history

The royal household as a center of power

In historical sociology, the court is the household and entourage gathered around a monarch, an arena of ceremony, patronage, and rivalry through which a ruler organised and displayed power. Elias's The Court Society, published in 1969, treated the court of absolutist France as a social formation with its own etiquette and dependencies that disciplined the nobility and bound them to the king. The referent is a political and social world centred on a ruler, not a tribunal that decides legal cases and not an animal's display ground.[1]

Unit: One royal or princely court as a social formation, or the courtiers who compose it
Recovery means: Not applicable
Measured by: Reconstructed by historians from etiquette manuals, memoirs, household records, and accounts of ceremony and rank

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References

Elias, N. (1969). Die höfische Gesellschaft. Luchterhand. (English edition: The Court Society, E. Jephcott, Trans., 1983).

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