Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden.
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Introduction 1 The De la Gardie sphere in context: Workplaces, palaces, and estates 2 Negotiating worth: Petitions, back pay, and benefits 3 Cogs in the wheel: Bureaucracy, administration, and the organization of knowledge 4 Know your place: Rules, resistance, and the materiality of hierarchies 5 For future betterment: Learning, expertise, and the art of planning 6 The mobility of servants: Networks and knowledge 7 Life in an early modern knowledge community: Concluding remarks