The Key to Power? : The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750.
Raeymaekers, Dries.
The Key to Power? : The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (366 pages) - Rulers and Elites Series ; v.8 . - Rulers and Elites Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts -- Part 1 Articulating Access -- Chapter 1 Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris -- Chapter 2 The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570 -- Chapter 3 Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court -- Part 2 Regulating Access -- Chapter 4 Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court -- Chapter 5 Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics? -- Part 3 Monopolizing Access -- Chapter 6 Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Accessat the Early Modern French Court -- Chapter 7 Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited -- Chapter 8 The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority -- Part 4 Visualizing Access -- Chapter 9 Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgioin Mantua (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 10 Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505) -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Key to Power? studies the notion of 'access to the ruler' from a wide variety of perspectives and discusses its significance for the study of power relations in late medieval and early modern courts.
9789004304246
Electronic books.
D231 -- .K49 2016eb
940.2
The Key to Power? : The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (366 pages) - Rulers and Elites Series ; v.8 . - Rulers and Elites Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts -- Part 1 Articulating Access -- Chapter 1 Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris -- Chapter 2 The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570 -- Chapter 3 Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court -- Part 2 Regulating Access -- Chapter 4 Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court -- Chapter 5 Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics? -- Part 3 Monopolizing Access -- Chapter 6 Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Accessat the Early Modern French Court -- Chapter 7 Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited -- Chapter 8 The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority -- Part 4 Visualizing Access -- Chapter 9 Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgioin Mantua (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) -- Chapter 10 Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505) -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Key to Power? studies the notion of 'access to the ruler' from a wide variety of perspectives and discusses its significance for the study of power relations in late medieval and early modern courts.
9789004304246
Electronic books.
D231 -- .K49 2016eb
940.2