The Key to Power?
The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750
Published on 21. July 2016
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-90-04-27483-9 (ISBN)
Description
Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of 'access to the ruler' has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which 'access' was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world.
Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.
Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
651 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-27483-9 (9789004274839)
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Dries Raeymaekers, Ph.D. (University of Antwerp, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on Habsburg dynastic politics, including a monograph on the Habsburg Court of Brussels in the early seventeenth century.
Sebastiaan Derks is Head of the Department of Digital Data Management and Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He has published a number of articles on the Farnese dynasty in sixteenth-century Europe.
Sebastiaan Derks is Head of the Department of Digital Data Management and Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He has published a number of articles on the Farnese dynasty in sixteenth-century Europe.
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations & Tables
Introduction
Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks
Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts
I. Articulating Access
Florence Berland
Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris
Neil Murphy
The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570
Audrey Truschke
Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court
II. Regulating Access
Michael Talbot
Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
Mark Hengerer
Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics?
III. Monopolizing Access
Jonathan Spangler
Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court
Ronald G. Asch
Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited
Fabian Persson
The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority
IV. Visualizing Access
Christina Antenhofer
Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth - Sixteenth Centuries)
Steven Thiry
Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505)
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
List of Illustrations & Tables
Introduction
Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks
Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts
I. Articulating Access
Florence Berland
Access to the Prince's Court in Late Medieval Paris
Neil Murphy
The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440-c.1570
Audrey Truschke
Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court
II. Regulating Access
Michael Talbot
Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court
Mark Hengerer
Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics?
III. Monopolizing Access
Jonathan Spangler
Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court
Ronald G. Asch
Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited
Fabian Persson
The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority
IV. Visualizing Access
Christina Antenhofer
Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth - Sixteenth Centuries)
Steven Thiry
Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430-1505)
Bibliography
Index