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A constellation of courts : the courts and households of Habsburg Europe, 1555-1665 /

"This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households among 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 composi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hortal Muñoz, José Eloy (Editor), Raeymaekers, Dries (Editor), Vermeir, René, 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven (Belgium) : Leuven University Press, [2014]
Series:Avisos de Flandes ; 15.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.