More than mere spectacle coronations and inaugurations in the Habsburg monarchy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
"Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governa...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, Oxford
Berghahn
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Austrian and Habsburg studies
volume 31 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance-an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben "Some of the contributors to this volume participated in a panel dedicated to eighteenth-century inaugurations and coronations at the Fourteenth International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) in Rotterdam in July 2015, as well as at a conference with the same topic held at Ghent University in September 2016." (Vorwort) |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 326 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781789208771 978-1-78920-877-1 |