Queen's apprentice : : archduchess Elizabeth, empress María, the Habsburgs, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1554-1569 / / Joseph F. Patrouch.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 148
• Author: Patrouch, Joseph F., 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 148.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 455 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book recounts the first fifteen years, early education and marriage negotiations of the Habsburg Archduchess, Elizabeth, who grew up in the Royal and Imperial Courts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt in the latter half of the sixteenth century. It portrays life at the court of Elizabeth's mother, the Empress Maria, and describes tournaments, coronations, plays, medals, chivalric literature, music, art, sewing, and saints' lives, as well as urban contexts. Ideas of political space and travel are discussed against the settings of Prague, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Bratislava, Munich and Augsburg. Elizabeth’s story reveals specific structures of the Habsburg Courts, featuring Spanish, Austrian, Hungarian, Low Country, Italian, and Bohemian courtiers, and sets her personal story against the background of larger international events, such as the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the Ottoman Wars.

Table of Contents

Introduction : a queen in training and an empress in charge -- Playing queen : in the women's court at Vienna and Wiener Neustadt, 1554-1560 -- Marriage negotiations and the tumultuous 1560's -- Empress and imperial daughter -- Wars and weddings on the horizon -- Conclusions : growing up : a queen before the fact.