The European Nobilities

JOHN CANNON Professor Emeritus at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK CLAUDIO DONATI Professor of Early Modern Italian History at the Università Statale di Milano, Italy ROGER METTAM Reader Emeritus in Modern History in the University of London, UK NUNO GONÇALO MONTEIRO Professor in the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal J.L. PRICE Reader in History at the University of Hull, UK JULIAN SWANN Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK CHRISTOPHER STORRS Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Dundee, UK I.A.A. THOMPSON University Professorial Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Keele, UK.