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Book Kingship and Favoritism in the Spain of Philip III  1598 1621

Download or read book Kingship and Favoritism in the Spain of Philip III 1598 1621 written by Antonio Feros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the reign of Philip III of Spain (1598-1621), and the king's favourite, first published in 2000.

Book Sermones funerales  en las honras del rey nuestro senor Felipe 2  con el que se predico en las de la serenissima infanta d  Catalina duquessa de Saboya  Recogidos por Iuan Iniguez de Lequerica impressor de libros  Va anadida vna tabla muy copiosa para sermones de defuntos particulares  y los euangelios de todo el ano

Download or read book Sermones funerales en las honras del rey nuestro senor Felipe 2 con el que se predico en las de la serenissima infanta d Catalina duquessa de Saboya Recogidos por Iuan Iniguez de Lequerica impressor de libros Va anadida vna tabla muy copiosa para sermones de defuntos particulares y los euangelios de todo el ano written by and published by . This book was released on 1601 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beggars  Iconoclasts  and Civic Patriots

Download or read book Beggars Iconoclasts and Civic Patriots written by Peter J. Arnade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the Dutch Revolt that shows how the act of rebellion forged a political identity through ritual, symbol, and public action.

Book Dynasty and Piety

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luc Duerloo
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1409443752
  • Pages : 611 pages

Download or read book Dynasty and Piety written by Luc Duerloo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an investigation of Albert's reign, this book offers a new and fuller understanding of international events of the time, and the Habsburg role in them. Drawing on a wide range of archival and visual material, the resulting study of Habsburg political culture demonstrates the large degree of autonomy enjoyed by the archducal regime, which allowed Albert and his entourage to exert a decisive influence on several crucial events: preparing the ground for the Anglo-Spanish peace of 1604 by the immediate recognition of King James, clearing the way for the Twelve Years' Truce by conditionally accepting the independence of the United Provinces, reasserting Habsburg influence in the Rhineland by the armed intervention of 1614 and devising the terms of the Oate Treaty of 1617. In doing so the book shows how they sought to initiate a realistic policy of consolidation benefiting the Spanish Monarchy and the House of Habsburg.

Book Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy

Download or read book Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy written by Minou Schraven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the papal body to the construction of the funeral apparato: the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter?s. The visual and liturgical centre of this apparato was the chapelle ardente or castrum doloris: a baldachin-like structure standing over the body of the deceased, decorated with coats of arms, precious textiles and hundreds of burning candles. Drawing from printed festival books and previously unpublished sources, such as ceremonial diaries and diplomatic correspondence, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of the development of early modern funeral apparati. What was their function in funeral liturgy and early modern festival culture at large? How did the papal funeral apparati compare to those of cardinals, the Spanish and French monarchy, and the Medici court in Florence? And most importantly, how did contemporaries perceive and judge them? By the late sixteenth century, new trends in conspicuous commemoration had rendered the traditional papal funeral apparati in St Peter?s obsolete. The author shows how papal families wishing to honor their uncles according to the new standards needed to invent ceremonial opportunities from scratch, showing off dynastic resilience, while modelling the deceased?s memoria after carefully constructed ideals of post-Tridentine sainthood.

Book Realms of Ritual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Arnade
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-18
  • ISBN : 1501720678
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Realms of Ritual written by Peter Arnade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal court and the urban centers constantly renegotiated their relationship. This book is the first to apply the combined insights of social, political, and cultural history to an important but little-explored area of medieval and early modern Europe, the Burgundian Netherlands. Realms of Ritual traces the role of ritual in encounters between the dukes of Burgundy (later the Habsburg princes) and the townspeople of Ghent, the most important city in the county of Flanders. Arnade analyzes city-state ceremonies through which Ghent's aldermen, patricians, guildsmen, and the city's military and drama confraternities confronted local power and the growth of the Burgundian state. In the first serious reappraisal of Johan Huizinga's classic work The Waning of the Middle Ages, Arnade confirms Huizinga's vision of a Low Country society rich in public symbols, yet reveals the city-state conflict within which such ritual thrived. He offers a dramatically new perspective on the Northern Renaissance, as well as a historical/anthropological model for the study of urban-state relations.

Book Memory Wars in the Low Countries  1566 1700

Download or read book Memory Wars in the Low Countries 1566 1700 written by Jasper van der Steen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolt in the Netherlands erupted in 1566 and tore apart the Low Countries. In Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 Jasper van der Steen explains how public memories of the Revolt in the Habsburg Netherlands in the South and the Dutch Republic in the North diverged and became the objects of fierce contestation in domestic political struggles, on both sides of the border and throughout the seventeenth century. Against widespread assumptions about the supposed modernity of cultural memory Memory Wars argues that early modern public memory did not require the presence of state actors, nationalism and modern mass media in order to play a role of political importance in both North and South.

Book From Madrid to Purgatory

Download or read book From Madrid to Purgatory written by Carlos M. N. Eire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-25 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of sixteenth-century Spanish attitudes towards death and the afterlife.

Book The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France

Download or read book The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France written by Ralph E. Giesey and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1960 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt

Download or read book Habsburg Communication in the Dutch Revolt written by Monica Stensland and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De politieke denkbeelden van de rebellen in de Opstand (voorheen de Tachtigjarige Oorlog) zijn al langer onderwerp van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Dit boek richt zich echter op het grotendeels onbesproken verhaal van het Habsburgse regime en zijn lokale aanhangers. Hoe dachten zij over het conflict en hoe reageerden zij op de beschuldigingen van de opstandelingen? De auteur heeft een verscheidenheid aan mondelinge, schriftelijke en theatrale media onderzocht om te ontdekken hoe het regime gebruikmaakte van de verschillende communicatiekanalen. Daarnaast is de reactie van gewone mensen op het conflict en op de tegenstrijdige berichtgeving in de publieke sfeer onderzocht.

Book A Common Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margit Thøfner
  • Publisher : Studies in Netherlandish Art a
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book A Common Art written by Margit Thøfner and published by Studies in Netherlandish Art a. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated and ground-breaking volume reassesses the relationship between art, material culture and politics in the early modern period. Focusing on festivals and processions, it shows that these played a highly significant role in the life of early modern city-dwellers. In particular, there was a flourishing of urban ceremony in the southern Low Countries, in the great cities of Brabant, in the wake of the Dutch Revolt. This book traces the origins of that flourishing in the political ructions of the 1560-1580s. It also shows that, contrary to received scholarly opinion, early modern urban festivals simultaneously involved and appealed to ordinary people. It was a common and collaborative art form, a way of soliciting broad popular support for civic and princely governments alike.

Book The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555 1590

Download or read book The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555 1590 written by Martin van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive study of the history of the political thought of the Dutch Revolt (1555-90). It explores the development of the political ideas which motivated and legitimized the Dutch resistance against the government of Philip II in the Low Countries, and which became the ideological foundations of the Dutch Republic as it emerged as one of the main powers of Europe. It shows how notions of liberty, constitutionalism, representation and popular sovereignty were of central importance to the political thought and revolutionary events of the Dutch Revolt, giving rise to a distinct political theory of resistance, to fundamental debates on the 'best state' of the new Dutch commonwealth and to passionate disputes on the relationship between church and state which prompted some of the most eloquent early modern pleas for religious toleration.

Book Showing Status

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wim Blockmans
  • Publisher : Brepols Publishers
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Showing Status written by Wim Blockmans and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PrefaceThe Feeling of Being OneselfWim BlockmansPart I. Positioning by milieuShowing off One's Rank in the Middle AgesRaymond Van UytvenAttitudes and Social Positioning in Courtly Romances: Hainault, Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesDanielle QuéruelGifts of Mourning-Cloth at the Brabantine Court in the Fifteenth CenturyRobert SteinSelf-Representation of Court and City in Flanders and Brabant in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth CenturiesWim Blockmans and Esther DonckersMarriage and Noble Lifestyle in Holland in the Late Middle Ages Antheun JanseOn the Nature of True Nobility: views from Dutch Courtiers in the Early Fifteenth CenturyJeanne-Verbij SchillingsRich Men, Poor Men : Social stratification and Social representation at the University (13th-16th Centuries)Hilde De Ridder-SymoensAround Saint George: Integration and Precedence during the Meetings of the Civic Militia of the HagueFred J.W. Van KanOwnership of Graves in Medieval Parish Churches in HollandKoen GoudriaanPart II Visions and ProblemsLove and Marriage: Fictional PerspectivesAnnelies Van GijsenFunctions of Fiction: Fighting Spouses around 1500Wim Blockmans and Tess NeijzenVisual Comments of the Mutability of Social Positions and Values in Netherlandish and German Art of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesHans-Joachim RauppThe Wearing of Significative Badges, Religious and Secular: The Social Meaning of a Behavioural Pattern Jos KoldeweijTreacherously Significant Woodcarving: Woodcuts in Dutch Language (Post)Incunabula as a source for Socio-Historical ResearchHanneke De BruinPart III. Positioning by social functionJan van Ruusbroec and the Social Position of Late Medieval Mysticism Geert WarnarThe Position of the Artist in the Fifteenth Century: Salaries and Social MobilityMaximiliaan P.J. MartensArtist and Patron: The Self-Portrait of Adam Kraft in the Sacrament-House of St. Lorenz in NurembergJohann-Christian KlamtRebels with a Cause : The Peasant Movements of Northern Holland in the Later Middle AgesPeter HoppenbrouwersTo appear or to BeWim BlockmansThe Authors.

Book Networks  Regions and Nations

Download or read book Networks Regions and Nations written by Robert Stein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries. It is an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.

Book The Twelve Years Truce  1609

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randall Lesaffer
  • Publisher : Brill - Nijhoff
  • Release : 2014-07-04
  • ISBN : 9789004274914
  • Pages : 10 pages

Download or read book The Twelve Years Truce 1609 written by Randall Lesaffer and published by Brill - Nijhoff. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twelve Years Truce covers the legal history of a crucial text in the formation of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power and highlights its significance in the formation of the early modern laws of war and peace.

Book Staging the Court of Burgundy

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  • Author : Willem Pieter Blockmans
  • Publisher : Harvey Miller Pub
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781905375820
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Staging the Court of Burgundy written by Willem Pieter Blockmans and published by Harvey Miller Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of the fifteenth century, the reputation of the Burgundian court rose to an unprecedented level, catapulted forward by ever growing territorial ambitions and accumulation of wealth. This reached a climax during the reign of Charles the Bold (1433-1477), the living embodiment of the pomp and pageantry of the Burgundian court and a generous patron of the fine arts. Rather than focusing on a single domain, this volume aims to shed light on Burgundian court culture as an organic whole, between the start of the reign of Philip the Good (1419) and the death of Mary of Burgundy (1482). It is intended to provide a forum for new research from the fields of History, History of Art, Literature and Musicology. With contributions (among others) from Wim Blockmans, Herman Brinkman, Barbara Haggh, Andrea Berlin, James Bloom, Till-Holger Borchert, Andrew Brown, Hendrik Callewier, Anna Campbell, Mario Damen, Sonja Duennebeil, Jonas Goossenaerts, Bieke Hillewaert, Andrew Hamilton, Eva Helfenstein, Jesse Hurlbut, Sophie Jolivet, Sascha Kohl, Sherry Lindquist, Jana Lucas, Samuel Mareel, Elizabeth J. Moodey, Klaus Oschema, Kathryn Rudy, Emily Snow, Olga Vassilieva-Codognet, Hanno Wijsman.

Book Imprudent King

Download or read book Imprudent King written by Geoffrey Parker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences surprisingly well documented by contemporaries. Eminent historian Geoffrey Parker draws on four decades of research on Philip as well as a recent, extraordinary archival discovery—a trove of 3,000 documents in the vaults of the Hispanic Society of America in New York City, unread since crossing Philip’s own desk more than four centuries ago. Many of them change significantly what we know about the king. The book examines Philip’s long apprenticeship; his three principal interests (work, play, and religion); and the major political, military, and personal challenges he faced during his long reign. Parker offers fresh insights into the causes of Philip’s leadership failures: was his empire simply too big to manage, or would a monarch with different talents and temperament have fared better?