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The key to power? : the culture of access in princely courts, 1400-1750 /
"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 m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Rulers & elites ;
v. 8. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Repertoires of access in princely courts / Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks
- Part 1. Articulating access
- Access to the prince's court in late medieval Paris / Florence Berland
- The court on the move : ceremonial entries, gift-giving and access to the monarch in France, c. 1440-c. 1570 / Neil Murphy
- Deceptive familiarity : European perceptions of access at the Mughal court / Audrey Truschke
- Part 2. Regulating access
- Accessing the shadow of God : spatial and performative ceremonial at the Ottoman court / Michael Talbot
- Access at the court of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty (mid-sixteenth to mid-eighteenth century) : a highway from presence to politics? / Mark Hengerer
- Part 3. Monopolizing access
- Holders of the keys : the Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and monopolies of access at the early modern French court / Jonathan Spangler
- Patronage, friendship and the politics of access : the role of the early modern favourite revisited / Ronald G. Asch
- The struggle for access : participation and distance during a royal Swedish minority / Fabian Persson
- Part 4. Visualizing access
- Meeting the prince between the city and the family : the resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Christina Antenhofer
- Forging dynasty : the politics of dynastic affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg birth and baptism ceremonial (1430-1505) / Steven Thiry.