A Constellation of Courts : : The Courts and Households of Habsburg Europe, 1555–1665 / / edited by Rene Vermeir, Dries Raeymaekers and Jose Eloy Hortal Muñoz.

• TeilnehmendeR: Vermeir, René, 1965-; Raeymaekers, Dries,; Hortal Muñoz, José Eloy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, 2014.; ©2014.
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Avisos de Flandes
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Habsburg networking in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?.This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households of the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections between these courtly communities regardless of their standing or composition, exposing the underlying network they formed.By cutting across the traditional division in the historiography between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs and also examining the roles played by the courts and households of lesser known member

Table of Contents

Courts and households of the Habsburg dynasty: history and historiography; The political configuration of the Spanish Monarchy: the court and royal households; The court of Madrid and the courts of the viceroys; The economic foundations of the royal household of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1556-1621; The household of archduke Albert of Austria from his arrival in Madrid 1570-1595; Flemish elites under Philip III's patronage (1598-1621); The 'Spanish Faction' at the court of the archdukes Albert and Isabella

"Vous estez les premiers vassaux que j'aye et que j'aime le plus." Burgundians in the Brussels courts of the widowed Isabella and of the Cardinal-Infant don Ferdinand (1621-1641)*Anne of Austria, founder of the Val-de-Grâce in Paris; Some reflections on the ceremonial and image of the kings and queens of the House of Habsburg in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; From Graz to Vienna: structures and careers in the Frauenzimmer between 1570 and 1657; The Innsbruck court in the 17th century: identity and ceremonial of a court in flux

Quo vadis: present and potential approaches to the relations between the courts and households of the Habsburg dynasty in the Early Modern periodIndex