Power and ceremony in European history : rituals, practices and representative bodies since the late Middle Ages / edited by Anna Kalinowska&Jonathan Spangler with Pawel Tyszka

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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part One Coronation and Enthronement -- 1 Where exactly is the throne? Locating sovereignty in sixteenth-century ottoman succession rituals -- Generic concept of enthronement -- The succession of 1566 -- Happily commencing a new reign? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Proclamations and coronations in Palermo (1700-1735): Performing kingship and celebrating civic power -- Four kings for one kingdom -- A Deo coronatus? -- A monarchic celebration or a civic festival? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761-1953 -- Protestant Reformation -- Anglo-Catholic restoration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Two Ceremonial of Royal Courts -- 4 The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the reign of Henry III -- Salic Law and the limitation of the power of the queen -- The ceremonial of the court of the queen: tradition and infl uence -- Queenship in the regulations of Henry III, 1570s-1580s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Courtly and ceremonial spaces in Spanish royal sites: An evolution from the renaissance to the baroque -- Court space in the Spanish Monarchy during the Early Modern period -- Ceremonial customs and etiquette in the Spanish Monarchy: from Renaissance to Baroque -- Ceremonies and the transformation of court space in Spanish Royal Sites -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Royal baptism in the Spanish court: Art and ritual from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- The establishment of an etiquette for royal baptism -- The centuries of Grandee pre-eminence: The participation of the nobles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- A change towards royal intimacy: Bourbon baptism ceremonies.

The magnificence of a royal baptism: The display of silver and opulent cloth from the royal collections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 From marshal to monarch: State ceremonies and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in post-napoleonic Sweden -- A prince -- The entry -- The Oaths of Allegiance -- A king -- The coronation -- The homage -- A dynasty -- The funeral -- The king is dead, long live the king! -- Notes -- Part Three Ceremonial of Institutions and Representative Bodies -- 8 Not the ruler, but the land: Estates and ceremonial order at the diet of besztercebánya, 1620 -- The conflict -- The context -- The arguments -- The stakes -- No escape? -- Notes -- 9 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Four Tangible and Intangible Elements in Staging Ceremonies -- 10 Jagiellonians and habsburgs: Heraldic dynastic representation in Central Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century -- Habsburg and Jagiellonian heraldic representation in late medieval Central Europe -- Heraldic representation in the funerals of Habsburg emperors -- Territorial flags during Hungarian coronations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Evolution and errors in heraldic dynastic representation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 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 -- England -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Public staging, visualization and performance of eighteenth-century danish absolutism: Queen Caroline Mathilde's journey across funen as ritual -- A tragic history -- The retinue in 1766 -- Middelfart -- Odense -- Nyborg and beyond -- The meaning of it all -- Ridiculous observation of etiquette?.

Unnecessary troubling of the population? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.