More than Mere Spectacle : : Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / / ed. by Klaas Van Gelder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Beke-Martos, Judit,; Cambrelin, Thomas,; Godsey, William D,; Hende, Fanni,; Maťa, Petr,; Miloš Řezník, Miloš,; Rudolph, Harriet,; Telesko, Werner,; Van Gelder, Klaas,; Vokáčová, Petra,; Watanabe-O’Kelly, Helen,
• HerausgeberIn: Gelder, Klaas Van,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)

Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance—an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON PLACE NAMES -- Introduction EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORONATIONS AND INAUGURATIONS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY Why Do They Matter? -- Chapter 1 THE CARE OF THRONES A Plethora of Investitures in the Habsburg Composite Monarchy and Beyond from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2 MEANINGLESS SPECTACLES? Eighteenth-Century Imperial Coronations in the Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered -- Chapter 3 THE HUNGARIAN CORONATIONS OF CHARLES VI AND LEOPOLD II AND THE REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL COMPROMISE -- Chapter 4 MARIA THERESA, THE HABSBURGS, AND THE HUNGARIAN CORONATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE CORONATION MEDALS, 1687–1741 -- Chapter 5 THE BOHEMIAN CORONATION OF CHARLES VI AND ITS HIDDEN MESSAGE -- Chapter 6 INAUGURATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS Flexible Formats at the Interface between Constitution, Political Negotiation, and Representation -- Chapter 7 CONDITIONING SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS The Joyous Entry Charter and the Inauguration of Maria Theresa in Brabant -- Chapter 8 SHAPING A NEW HABSBURG TERRITORY The 1773 Lemberg Act of Homage and the Galician Polish Nobility -- Chapter 9 PAGEANTRY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Inaugural Rites in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790–1848 -- Chapter 10 AFTER 1848 The Heightened Constitutional Importance of the Habsburg Coronation in Hungary -- Afterword THE LAST HABSBURG CORONATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ANOINTED -- INDEX