Power and ceremony in European history : rituals, practices and representative bodies since the late Middle Ages / [edited by] Jonathan Spangler and Anna Kalinowska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalinowska, Ania, editor.

Spangler, Jonathan, 1971- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Charles J. Stille Fund.

Series:

Cultures of early modern Europe

Cultures of early Modern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--Europe--To 1500.

Monarchy.

Europe--Politics and government--476-1492.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

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Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Part I. Coronation and enthronemnt. 1. Where exactly is the throne? Ottoman enthronement ceremonies in the 16th century / N. Zeynep Yelce (Sabanci University, Turkey) ; 2. Four kings of Sicily: proclamations and coronations in Palermo, 1700

1735 / Pablo Gonzalez Tornel (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) ; 3. The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761

1953 / Nicholas Dixon (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part II. Ceremonial of Royal Courts. 4. The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the 16th century / Vladimir Shishkin (St Petersburg State University, Russia) ; 5. Courtier ceremonies, etiquette and courtly space at the Spanish royal sites: an evolution / Jose Eloy Hortal Munoz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) ; 6. The royal baptism in the Spanish court: art and ritual from the 15th to the 18th century / Immaculda Rodriguez Moya (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)

Part III. Ceremonial of institutions and representative bodies. 7. Not the ruler, but the land: estates as corporations in the early 17th-century ceremonial order / Gabor Karman (Hunagrian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ; 8. Oath and hand-kissing ceremonies of kingship in a monarchia composita: Sabaudian states from the 17th to the 19th centuries / Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi della Residenze Reali Sabaude, Italy) ; 9. The parodox of the Lit de Justice : loving and defying the king in the 18th century / Anne Byrne (Birkbeck Univeristy of London, UK)

Part IV. Tangible and intangible elements in staging ceremonies. 10. Jagiellonians and Habsburgs: dynastic heraldic representations in central Europe from the 15th to the 17th century / Geza Palffy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ; 11. Operas and masquerades: court rituals and entertainments under George I of Brunswick-Luneburg in electorate of Hanover and Britain / Babara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw, Poland).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles J. Stille Fund.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781350152212

1350152218

9781350152199

Publisher Number:

99988746189

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