Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath, 1700-1740 (Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series: Studies in Early Modern Latin)

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nIllustrations\nPreface\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction\n1 Praise and Blame: Legitimizing the New Kings’ Old Dynasties\n	Royal proclamations in the early years of the conflict\n	Questions of legitimacy\n	A new emperor, who could not be king of Spain\n	Conclusion\n2 ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: Mapping the Spanish Conflict in Latin Verse and Prose (1701–1712)\n	Initial encounters in Italy\n	Elsewhere in Europe between 1702 and 1704\n	The Peninsular front: Barcelona twice besieged (1705–1706)\n	Divine intervention\n	Queen Anne, a mighty ally in Catalonia\n	Madrid and beyond\n	On European soil\n	Almansa and Toulon\n	Remembering past glories\n	Oudenarde and Malplaquet\n	A crucial year: 1710\n	The road to peace\n	To sum up\n3 Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession\n	Tu felix Austria nube: Nuptial poetry in the midst of war\n	An untimely death\n	Peace at last\n	Conclusion\n4 Latin Propaganda beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715–1740)\n	Latin political propaganda and exile in the aftermath of the dynastic conflict\n	A new king of Sicily, the Peace of Vienna and the emperor’s final years\n	Conclusion\nConclusions\nAppendix 1 The Spanish Succession: A Dynastic Table\nAppendix 2 Texts from Chapters 1 and 2\nAppendix 3 Two Eighteenth-Century Latin Poets at Work\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex