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Book The Stuart Court and Europe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1996-08-28
  • ISBN : 9780521554398
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Stuart Court and Europe written by Robert Malcolm Smuts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.

Book The Stuart Courts

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  • Author : Eveline Cruickshanks
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2012-05-30
  • ISBN : 0752486594
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book The Stuart Courts written by Eveline Cruickshanks and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic kings of mainland Europe. They were centres of great culture, patronage, ceremony and politics. The real importance of the courts, though down-played for many years, is now beginning to be fully recognised and this first major study of the Stuart courts in England, Scotland and Ireland examines them in their full cultural and historical context. Scholars of international reputation and up and coming, younger scholars have been brought together to give us an insight into many aspects of the Stuart courts. This book includes essays on culture and patronage of the arts and social history. What was it really like at the court? What rules applied? How did the courtiers behave? Finally, the crucial interplay between court life and political life, and politics, is examined in detail. This book is a major contribution to a flourishing area of scholarship and will be required reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century history, court studies or the arts in the early modern period.

Book Palaces of Revolution  Life  Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Download or read book Palaces of Revolution Life Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

Book Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England

Download or read book Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England written by R. Malcolm Smuts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.

Book The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque

Download or read book The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque written by David Bevington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.

Book The Stuarts in Italy  1719 1766

Download or read book The Stuarts in Italy 1719 1766 written by Edward T. Corp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the lives of the exiled Stuart Court in Italy which provided an important British presence in Rome.

Book The Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites

Download or read book The Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites written by Eveline Cruickshanks and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original research in a wide range of contemporary sources, this collection of original essays illuminates the early development of Jacobitism, placing the movement in a coherent historical context. The volume includes a substantial introduction by Edward Corp on the Stuart court and a major essay by Eveline Cruickshanks on the importance of Jacobitism in Britain and its links with the exiled court.

Book Early Modern Court Culture

Download or read book Early Modern Court Culture written by Erin Griffey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing insights into aspects of both community and continuity at courts as well as individual identity, change and difference. Culture is presented as not merely a vehicle for court propaganda in promoting the monarch and the dynasty, but as a site for a complex range of meanings that conferred status and virtue on the patron, maker, court and the wider community of elites. The essays show that the court provided an arena for virtue and virtuosity, intellectual and social play, demonstration of moral authority and performance of social, gendered, confessional and dynastic identity. Early Modern Court Culture moves from political structures and political players to architectural forms and spatial geographies; ceremonial and ritual observances; visual and material culture; entertainment and knowledge. With 35 contributions on subjects including gardens, dress, scent, dance and tapestries, this volume is a necessary resource for all students and scholars interested in the court in early modern Europe.

Book A View of Society in Europe    by Gilbert Stuart

Download or read book A View of Society in Europe by Gilbert Stuart written by Gilbert Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Age Restor d

Download or read book The Golden Age Restor d written by Graham Parry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stuart Court in Rome

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  • Author : Edward Corp
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-03-31
  • ISBN : 9781138710603
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Stuart Court in Rome written by Edward Corp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title first published in 2003. When the Stuarts left Britain after the 'Glorious Revolution' they established an important court in exile, first in France, then for most of the eighteenth century in Italy. Jacobites who could not hope to see their careers furthered at the Hanoverian court in London maintained their loyalty to James III, the 'King over the Water', and his son 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. The Stuart Court in Rome describes the court as a centre of cultural patronage, particularly of music and painting, and considers whether it lived up to the idealized picture celebrated by Jacobites in Britain. The financial vicissitudes of James III and his entourage are uncovered, and the influence of Hanoverian agents such as Baron von Stosch. The book investigates links between the Stuarts and Freemasonry; presents new evidence for the Stuart descent; and recounts the dispersal and acquisition of Stuart portraits and other relics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Book Anna of Denmark

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  • Author : Jemma Field
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-11
  • ISBN : 1526142511
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Anna of Denmark written by Jemma Field and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women. Illustrated with a fascinating array of objects and artworks, the book follows a trajectory that begins with Anna’s exterior spaces before moving to the interior furnishings of her palaces, the material adornment of the royal body, an examination of Anna’s visual persona and a discussion of Anna’s performance of extraordinary rituals that follow her life cycle. Underpinned by a wealth of new archival research, the book provides a richer understanding of the breadth of Anna’s interests and the meanings generated by her actions, associations and possessions.

Book Queenship in Britain  1660 1837

Download or read book Queenship in Britain 1660 1837 written by Clarissa Campbell Orr and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne.

Book A Court in Exile

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  • Author : Edward T. Corp
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780521584623
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book A Court in Exile written by Edward T. Corp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book The Stuart Court in Rome

Download or read book The Stuart Court in Rome written by Edward Corp and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Title first published in 2003. When the Stuarts left Britain after the 'Glorious Revolution' they established an important court in exile, first in France, then for most of the eighteenth century in Italy. Jacobites who could not hope to see their careers furthered at the Hanoverian court in London maintained their loyalty to James III, the 'King over the Water', and his son 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'. The Stuart Court in Rome describes the court as a centre of cultural patronage, particularly of music and painting, and considers whether it lived up to the idealized picture celebrated by Jacobites in Britain. The financial vicissitudes of James III and his entourage are uncovered, and the influence of Hanoverian agents such as Baron von Stosch. The book investigates links between the Stuarts and Freemasonry; presents new evidence for the Stuart descent; and recounts the dispersal and acquisition of Stuart portraits and other relics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Provided by publisher.

Book Scots in Habsburg Service

Download or read book Scots in Habsburg Service written by D. C. Worthington and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original approach to the study of the Scottish diaspora in Europe. It highlights the activities of a group of emigrants and exiles who served the twin-headed Habsburg dynasty during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Book British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe

Download or read book British and Irish Emigrants and Exiles in Europe written by David Worthington and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the first full-length comparison of Scottish, Irish, English and Welsh migration within Europe in the early modern period. The contributions demonstrate the fruitfulness of pursuing a comparative approach to seventeenth-century British and Irish history.