The key to power? : : the culture of access in princely courts, 1400-1750 / / edited by Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks.
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 acc...
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| Superior document: | Rulers & Elites, Volume 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rulers & elites ;
Volume 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts
- 1 Access to the Prince’s Court in Late Medieval Paris / Florence Berland
- 2 The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440–c.1570 / Neil Murphy
- 3 Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court / Audrey Truschke
- 4 Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court / Michael Talbot
- 5 Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics? / Mark Hengerer
- 6 Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court / Jonathan Spangler
- 7 Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited / Ronald G Asch
- 8 The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority / Fabian Persson
- 9 Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) / Christina Antenhofer
- 10 Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430–1505) / Steven Thiry
- Bibliography
- Index.