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More than mere spectacle : coronations and inaugurations in the Habsburg monarchy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /

"Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gelder, Klaas van (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Colección:Austrian and Habsburg studies ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • More Than Mere Spectacle
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Place Names
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Care of Thrones
  • Chapter 2. Meaningless Spectacles?
  • Chapter 3. The Hungarian Coronations of Charles VI and Leopold II and the Representation of Political Compromise
  • Chapter 4. Maria Theresa, the Habsburgs, and the Hungarian Coronations in the Light of the Coronation Medals, 1687-1741
  • Chapter 5. The Bohemian Coronation of Charles VI and Its Hidden Message
  • Chapter 6. Inaugurations in the Austrian Netherlands
  • Chapter 7. Conditioning Sovereignty in the Austrian Netherlands
  • Chapter 8. Shaping a New Habsburg Territory
  • Chapter 9. Pageantry in the Revolutionary Age
  • Chapter 10. After 1848
  • Afterword
  • Index