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

List of Illustrations Introduction, Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Part I. Coronation and Enthronemnt 1. Where Exactly is the Throne? Ottoman Enthronement Ceremonies in the 16th Century, N. Zeynep Yelce (Sabanci University, Turkey) 2. Four Kings of Sicily: Proclamations and Coronations in Palermo, 1700 - 1735, Pablo Gonzalez Tornel (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 3. The Evolution of the British Coronation Rite, 1761 - 1953, Nicholas Dixon (University of Cambridge, UK) Part II. Ceremonial of Royal Courts 4. The Daily Court Ceremonial of the French Queen in the 16th Century, Vladimir Shishkin (St Petersburg State University, Russia) 5. Courtier Ceremonies, Etiquette and Courtly Space at the Spanish Royal Sites: An Evolution, Jose Eloy Hortal Munoz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) 6. The Royal Baptism in the Spanish Court: Art and Ritual from the 15th to the 18th Century, Immaculda Rodriguez Moya (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) Part III. Ceremonial of Institutions and Representative Bodies 7. Not the Ruler, but the Land: Estates as Corporations in the Early 17th-Century Ceremonial Order, Gabor Karman (Hunagrian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) 8. Oath and Hand-Kissing Ceremonies of Kingship in a Monarchia Composita: Sabaudian States from the 17th to the 19th Centuries, Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi della Residenze Reali Sabaude, Italy) 9. The Parodox of the Lit de Justice: Loving and Defying the King in the 18th Century, Anne Byrne (Birkbeck Univeristy of London, UK) Part IV. Tangible and Intangible Elements in Staging Ceremonies 10. Jagiellonians and Habsburgs: Dynastic Heraldic Representations in Central Europe from the 15th to the 17th Century, Geza Palffy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) 11. Operas and Masquerades: Court Rituals and Entertainments under George I of Brunswick-Luneburg in Electorate of Hanover and Britain, Babara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw, Poland) Bibliography Index