The Key to Power?: The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750 - Couverture rigide

Raeymaekers, Dries; Derks, Sebastiaan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004274839 ISBN 13 : 9789004274839

Editeur : Brill, 2016

Synopsis

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 mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which 'access' was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world.

Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dries Raeymaekers, Ph.D. (University of Antwerp, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on Habsburg dynastic politics, including a monograph on the Habsburg Court of Brussels in the early seventeenth century.

Sebastiaan Derks is Head of the Department of Digital Data Management and Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. He has published a number of articles on the Farnese dynasty in sixteenth-century Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004274839
• ISBN 13: 9789004274839
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible