Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research Pitzer Faculty Scholarship 9-1-2001 Review: Lisbet Koerner, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (Cambridge, Mass., 1999) Andre Wakefield Pitzer College Recommended Citation Andre Wakefield. Review of Koerner, Lisbet, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. The ourJ nal of Modern History 73.3 (September 2001): 653–655. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/339107 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Pitzer Faculty Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Book Reviews La socie´te´ des princes, XVIe–XVIIIe sie`cle. By Lucien Be´ly. Paris: Fayard, 1999. Pp. 651. Fr 195. However brilliantly they shone in the eyes of their contemporaries, early modern royal courts and the “society of princes” they accommodated have been curiously invisible to historians until recently. To be sure, the biographers of major and minor court personalities have provided many small windows onto the early modern court as a means of shedding light on the lives of their respective subjects, just as scholars of the fine arts have long been illuminating the dynamics of court patronage. But it was only about twenty years ago, when the previously neglected work of Norbert Elias was translated and republished in new editions, that the royal court as an integral institution began to attract the focused attention of historians as had other extensions of the early modern state, such as the army, the judiciary, and the fisc, with more established traditions of scholarship behind them.