Princes, Patronage, and the Nobility : The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age c.1450–1650

Content

• Frontmatter

  p. I

• Foreword

  p. V

  Birke, Adolf M.

• Contents

  p. VII

• Constitutional Terms in the Holy Roman Empire

  p. XI

• Introduction: Court and Household from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Centuries

  p. 1

  Asch, Ronald G.

• The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses: Continuities in an Age of Discontinuities

  p. 41

  Griffiths, Ralph Alan

• The Court of the Dukes of Burgundy: A Model for Europe?

  p. 69

  Paravicini, Werner

• The Court of the German Kings and of the Emperor at the end of the Middle Ages 1440-1519

  p. 103

  Moraw, Peter

• How Large was the Court of Emperor Frederick III?

  p. 139

  Heinig, Paul-Joachim

• Southern German Courts around 1500

  p. 157

  Stievermann, Dieter

• Court, Council, and Nobility in Tudor England

  p. 175

  Starkey, David

• The Court of Philip II of Spain

  p. 205

  Rodríguez-Salgado, M. J.

• The Court as 'Civilizer' of the Nobility: Noble Attitudes and the Court in France in the late Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Centuries

  p. 245

  Schalk, Ellery

• Favourites and Factions at the Elizabethan Court

  p. 265

  Adams, Simon

• The Imperial Court of the Habsburgs: From Maximilian I to Ferdinand III, 1493-1657

  p. 289

  Press, Volker

• From Aristocratic Household to Princely Court: Restructuring Patronage in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  p. 315

  Mączak, Antoni

• Papal Power and Family Strategy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  p. 329

  Reinhard, Wolfgang

• The Revival of Monopolies: Court and Patronage during the Personal Rule of Charles I, 1629-40

  p. 357

  Asch, Ronald G.

• The Role of a Queen Consort: The Household and Court of Henrietta Maria, 1625-1642

  p. 393

  Hibbard, Caroline

• The Crown, Ministériat, and Nobility at the Court of Louis XIII

  p. 415

  Malettke, Klaus

• The Orange Court: The Configuration of the Court in an Old European Republic

  p. 441

  Schilling, Heinz

• Sovereignty and Authority: The Role of the Court in the Netherlands in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

  p. 455

  Mörke, Olaf

• The Court: A Protean Institution and an Elusive Subject

  p. 481

  Evans, Robert John Weston

• List of Contributors

  p. 493

• Index

  p. 497