Aristocratic Adaptability in Comparative Perspective. Four aristocracies in different times and places

Abstract

Review of Peter Coss, The aristocracy in England and Tuscany: 1000-1250 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, xiii + 528 pp., index); Nilay Özok-Gündogaň, The Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire: loyalty, autonomy and privilege (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2022, xi + 368 pp., index); Stephan Malinowski, Nazis and nobles: the history of a misalliance. Translated by Jon Andrews (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, x + 496 pp., index)