Heirs of Flesh and Paper : : A European History of Dynastic Knowledge around 1700 / / Tom Tölle.
"Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern Europe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History : Wissenskulturen und ihre Praktiken ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 322 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Rethinking the Body Politic
- Chapter 1 Seeing: Royal Frailty at the Court of Charles II of Spain (1690s–1700)
- Chapter 2 Healing: Stuart Princely Ailments and the Politics of Medical Opinion (1700–1714)
- Chapter 3 Writing: The British Succession Question in the Holy Roman Empire (1701)
- Chapter 4 Interacting: Contagion in Bourbon France and the Making of Dynastic Crisis (1711/2–1716)
- Chapter 5 Feeling: The Health of Habsburg Heirs, and the Emotional Empire (1692–1716)
- Conclusion: Destiny, Disease, and Dynasty
- Works and Sources Cited
- Appendices
- Index of Persons