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This book deals with the court as a crucial centre of government and politics in Europe and as the dominant focus for the ruling elites. It shows how the early modern court gradually developed from the medieval royal household, and how it functioned in the 16th and 17th centuries. This volume sees the history of the European courts in comparative perspective. Despite the structural differences between the countries examined - England, Germany, France and Spain as well as the Netherlands and Italy - several common themes emerge: the problem of integrating a number of often vastly different provinces and principalities by the attraction of a court; the capital city's function as the basis of the court and its rival; the role of the court during the great religious conflicts of the 16th and 17th centuries; and the court as an instrument for domesticating the nobility and as a stronghold of aristocratic influence. The work should interest scholars and postgraduate students of early modern and late medieval European history and social history.
Contents
Part 1 The origins of the early modern court: the king's court during the Wars of the Roses - continuities in an age of discontinuities, Ralph A.Griffiths; the court of the dukes of Burgundy - a model for Europe, Werner Paravicini; the court of the German king and of the Emperor at the end of the Middle Ages, 1440-1519, Peter Moraw; how large was the court of Emperor Frederick III?, Paul Joachim Heinig; southern German courts around 1500, Dieter Stievermann. Part 2 Court, administration, and nobility in the 16th century: court, council and nobility in Tudor England, David Starkey; the court of Philip II of Spain, J.Rodriguez-Salgado; the court as "civilizer" of the nobility - noble attitudes and the court in France in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Ellery Schalk; favourites and factions at the Elizabethan court, Simon Adams; the imperial court of the Habsburgs - from Maximilian I to Ferdinand III, 1493-1567, Volker Press. Part III Patronage and court politics in the early 17th century: from aristocratic household to princely court - restructuring patronage in the 16th and 17th centuries, Antoni Maczak; papal power and family strategy in the 16th and 17th century, Wolfgang Reinhard; the revival of monopolies - court and patronage during the personal rule of Charles I, 1629-1640, Ronald G.Asch; the role of a queen consort - the household and court of Henrietta Maria, 1625-1642, Caroline Hibbard; the crown, "Ministerial", and nobility at the court of Louis XIII, Klaus Malettre; the Orange court - the configuration of the court in an old European republic, Heinz Schilling; sovereignty and authority - the role of the court in the Netherlands in the first half of the 17th century, Olaf Morke. Epilogue: the court - a protcan institution and an elusive subject, J.W.Evans.
