Power and Ceremony in European History: Rituals, Practices and Representative Bodies since the Late Middle Ages

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nIllustrations\nContributors\nIntroduction\n	Notes\nPart One Coronation and Enthronement\n1 Where exactly is the throne? Locating sovereignty in sixteenth-century ottoman succession rituals\n	Generic concept of enthronement\n	The succession of 1566\n	Happily commencing a new reign?\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n2 Proclamations and coronations in Palermo (1700–1735): Performing kingship and celebrating civic power\n	Four kings for one kingdom\n	A Deo coronatus?\n	A monarchic celebration or a civic festival?\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n3 The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761–1953\n	Protestant Reformation\n	Anglo-Catholic restoration\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\nPart Two Ceremonial of Royal Courts\n4 The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the reign of Henry III\n	Salic Law and the limitation of the power of the queen\n	The ceremonial of the court of the queen: tradition and infl uence\n	Queenship in the regulations of Henry III, 1570s–1580s\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n5 Courtly and ceremonial spaces in Spanish royal sites: An evolution from the renaissance to the baroque\n	Court space in the Spanish Monarchy during the Early Modern period\n	Ceremonial customs and etiquette in the Spanish Monarchy: from Renaissance to Baroque\n	Ceremonies and the transformation of court space in Spanish Royal Sites\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n6 Royal baptism in the Spanish court: Art and ritual from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century\n	The establishment of an etiquette for royal baptism\n	The centuries of Grandee pre-eminence: The participation of the nobles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries\n	A change towards royal intimacy: Bourbon baptism ceremonies\n	The magnificence of a royal baptism: The display of silver and opulent cloth from the royal collections\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n7 From marshal to monarch: State ceremonies and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in post-napoleonic Sweden\n	A prince\n	The entry\n	The Oaths of Allegiance\n	A king\n	The coronation\n	The homage\n	A dynasty\n	The funeral\n	The king is dead, long live the king!\n	Notes\nPart Three Ceremonial of Institutions and Representative Bodies\n8 Not the ruler, but the land: Estates and ceremonial order at the diet of besztercebánya, 1620\n	The conflict\n	The context\n	The arguments\n	The stakes\n	No escape?\n	Notes\n9 Oath-taking and Hand-Kissing: Ceremonies of sovereignty in a ‘Monarchia composita’, the states of the house of savoy from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\nPart Four Tangible and Intangible Elements in Staging Ceremonies\n10 Jagiellonians and habsburgs: Heraldic dynastic representation in Central Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century\n	Habsburg and Jagiellonian heraldic representation in late medieval Central Europe\n	Heraldic representation in the funerals of Habsburg emperors\n	Territorial flags during Hungarian coronations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries\n	Evolution and errors in heraldic dynastic representation\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n11 Operas and masquerades: Court rituals and entertainments under Ernest Augustus and George I of Brunswick-L ü neburg (1660–1727) in the electorate of Hanover and Great Britain\n	England\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\n12 Public staging, visualization and performance of eighteenth-century danish absolutism: Queen Caroline Mathilde’s journey across funen as ritual\n	A tragic history\n	The retinue in 1766\n	Middelfart\n	Odense\n	Nyborg and beyond\n	The meaning of it all\n	Ridiculous observation of etiquette?\n	Unnecessary troubling of the population?\n	Conclusion\n	Notes\nSelect Bibliography\nIndex