Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Tables (page vii)
- Lists of Figures and Illustrations (page ix)
- Acknowledgments (page xi)
- Abbreviations and Units of Measurement (page xiii)
- Introduction (page 3)
- PART I: THE PATRICIANS AS A SOCIAL GROUP FROM THE REPUBLIC TO THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE (page 11)
- 1. The Legacy of the Renaissance Republic (page 13)
- 2. Adaptation to the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth Century Medici Court (page 24)
- 3. The Eighteenth-Century Libri di Oro of the Hapsburg-Lorraine (page 52)
- PART II: THE NEW BUREAUCRACY OF THE MEDICI DUKES IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES (page 63)
- 4. From Magistrates to Functionaries (page 65)
- 5. The Expansion of the Central Bureaucracy (page 84)
- 6. Central and Provincial Offices (page 110)
- PART III: THE PATRICIANS IN THE BUREAUCRACY (page 127)
- 7. Theory and Practice of the Mixed State (page 129)
- 8. The Relocation of the Patricians by Type of Office (page 141)
- PART IV: THE PATRIMONIALISM OF PATRICIAN FUNCTIONARIES (page 155)
- 9. Training and Appointment (page 157)
- 10. Careers and Salaries (page 182)
- PART V: PATRICIAN WEALTH AND DUCAL POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (page 201)
- 11. The Changing Fortunes of the Patricians (page 203)
- 12. The Economic Policy of Patrimonialism (page 233)
- PART VI: THE REMAKING OF THE BUREAUCRACY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THE HAPSBURG-LORRAINE (page 263)
- 13. The Regency for Francis Stephen,1737-65 (page 265)
- 14. The Leopoldine Reforms,1765-90 (page 283)
- 15. The Exit of the Patricians from Office (page 313)
- CONCLUSION (page 336)
- APPENDIX A TABLES ON OFFICES,OFFICEHOLDERS, AND SALARIES, 1551-1784
- APPENDIX B SUMMARY INFORMATION ABOUT PATRICIAN HOUSES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 383)
- INDEX (page 397)