Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650 (2-Volume Set)

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14398-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Gewicht: 1569 g

Volume One contains thirteen essays on European princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650. Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, and even forms of devotional practice – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This first of two volumes concentrating on the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, has essays on selected courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees: the court of Burgundy under the Valois dukes, that of France under Catherine de Médicis and of Henry IV, that of Scotland under Jameses III, IV, V, VI and of Mary, Queen of Scots, that of Margaret of Austria at Mechelen, of Scandinavia, of Heidelberg under Frederick the Victorious and Philip the Upright, and that of Maximilian I.

Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, forms of devotional piety, and also the social, political and literary self-representation of rulers – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. The second volume on princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650 contains twelve essays. These are focused on England under Edward IV, Henrys VII and VIII, Elizabeth I, and under James I and Charles I. The late fifteenth-century imperial court is treated in a piece on Matthias I Corvinus. The courts of Italy are represented by chapters on those of the Po Valley, the Medici of Florence, the Papal courts of Pius II and Julius II, and of Naples. Spanish court culture is discussed in contributions on Charles V, Philip II, and of Philip IV.

With contributions by D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, Gayle K. Brunelle, Davide Canfora, Dagmar Eichberger, Annette Finley-Croswhite, Martin Gosman, Margriet Hoogvliet, Volker Honemann, Jonathan Hughes, Richard L. Kagan, Michael Lynch, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Zweder von Martels, José Martínez Millán, Olaf Mörke, Jan-Dirk Müller, Rinaldo Rinaldi, Rita Schlusemann, Christine Shaw, Jane Stevenson, Alan Swanson, Arjo Vanderjagt, Henk van Veen, Rina Walthaus, and Janet Hadley Williams.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gosman, Martin

Vanderjagt, Arjo J.

MacDonald, Alasdair A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE

Preface
Contributors
List of Plates

1. Princely Culture: Friendship or Patronage?, Martin Gosman
2. The Symbolism of Rulership, Olaf Mörke
3. The Princely Culture of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, Arjo Vanderjagt
4. The Images of Empire: Francis I and his Cartographers, Gayle K. Brunelle
5. Princely Culture and Catherine de Médicis, Margriet Hoogvliet
6. Henry IV and the Diseased Body Politic, Annette Finley-Croswhite
7. Princely Culture in Scotland under James III and James IV, Alasdair A. MacDonald
8. James V of Scots as Literary Patron, Janet Hadley Williams
9. The Reassertion of Princely Power in Scotland: The Reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and King James VI, Michael Lynch
10. A Cultural Centre in the Southern Netherlands: The Court of Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) in Mechelen, Dagmar Eichberger
11. Courts and Culture in Renaissance Scandinavia, Alan Swanson
12. Power and Creativity at the Court of Heidelberg, Rita Schlusemann
13. The Court of Emperor Maximilian I, Jan-Dirk Müller

Bibliography
Index

VOLUME TWO

Preface
Contributors
List of Plates

1. Pope Pius II and the Idea of the Appropriate Thematisation of the Self, Zweder von Martels
2. Princes and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Po Valley Courts, Rinaldo Rinaldi
3. The Motivation for the Patronage of Pope Julius II, Christine Shaw
4. Princes and Patriotism: The Self-Representation of Florentine Patricians in the Late Renaissance, Henk van Veen
5. Culture and Power in Naples from 1450 to 1650, Davide Canfora
6. Politics and the Occult at the Court of Edward IV, Jonathan Hughes
7. Henry VII and Henry VIII, D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton
8. The Court Culture of England under Elizabeth I, Jane Stevenson
9. The Marriage of Matthias Corvinus to Beatrice of Aragón (1476) in Urban and Court Historiography, Volker Honemann
10. Charles V, José Martínez Millán
11. ‘Official History’ at the Court of Philip II of Spain, Richard L. Kagan
12. The Sun and Aurora: Philip IV of Spain and his Queen-Consort in Royal Festival and Spectacle, Rina Walthaus

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Gosman, Ph.D. (1982) is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published many articles on the medieval Alexander and on ideas of political power in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe. His most recent monograph is La legende d’Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du 12e siècle (1997).He was also co-editor of Pius II. ‘El più expeditivo pontifice’ (2003).

Alasdair MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on the medieval and renaissance literature and culture of Scotland and England.

Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981) is Professor of the History of Ideas and of Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the anthropology of the Church Fathers, the thought of Anselm of Canterbury, the political ideology of the fifteenth-century dukes of Burgundy, and on Northern Humanism.