Power and Ceremony in European History

Anna Kalinowska is Senior Researcher in the Institute of History at Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.Jonathan Spangler is Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of The Society of Princes (2009) and editor of The Court Historian.Pawel Tyszka is Head of Historical Research at The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction, Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Part I. Coronation and Enthronement1. Where exactly is the throne? Locating sovereignty in sixteenth-century Ottoman succession rituals, N. Zeynep Yelce (Sabanci University, Turkey)2. Proclamations and coronations in Palermo (1700–1735): Performing kingship and celebrating civic power, Pablo González Tornel (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)3. Nicholas Dixon, The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761–1953, Nicholas Dixon (Independent Scholar, UK)Part II. Ceremonial of Royal Courts4. The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the reign of Henry III, Vladimir Shishkin (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)5. Courtly and ceremonial spaces in Spanish Royal Sites: an evolution from the Renaissance to the Baroque, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)6. Royal baptism in the Spanish court: art and ritual from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)7. From Marshal to Monarch. State ceremonies and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in post-Napoleonic Sweden, Mikael AlmPart III. Ceremonial of Institutions and Representative Bodies8. Not the ruler, but the land: Estates and ceremonial order at the Diet of Besztercebánya, 1620, Gábor Kármán (Institute of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary)9. Oath-taking and hand-kissing: ceremonies of sovereignty in a “Monarchia composita”, the States of the House of Savoy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, Andrea Merlotti (Centro studi delle Residenze Reali Sabaude, Italy)Part IV. Tangible and Intangible Elements in Staging Ceremonies10. Jagiellonians and Habsburgs: heraldic dynastic representation in Central Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Géza Pálffy (Institute of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary)11. Operas and masquerades: court rituals and entertainments under Ernest Augustus and George I of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1660–1727) in the Electorate of Hanover and Great Britain, Babara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)12. Public staging, visualization and performance of eighteenth-century Danish absolutism: Queen Caroline Mathilde’s journey across Funen as ritual, Michael Bregnsbo (University of Southern Denmark at Odense, Denmark)Select BibliographyIndex

Power and Ceremony in European History is highly recommended as a series of case studies demonstrating the richness of the ritual approach to European politics and power. Researchers and students will find a wealth of examples of how sociological and anthropological analyses can elucidate the meaning and significance of the frequent power performances that animated premodern monarchies.