Power and ceremony in European history: rituals, practices and representative bodies since the late Middle Ages
In: Cultures of early Modern Europe
Introduction / Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) -- Part I. Coronation and enthronemnt. 1. Where exactly is the throne? Ottoman enthronement ceremonies in the 16th century / N. Zeynep Yelce (Sabanci University, Turkey) ; 2. Four kings of Sicily: proclamations and coronations in Palermo, 1700 - 1735 / Pablo Gonzalez Tornel (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) ; 3. The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761 - 1953 / Nicholas Dixon (University of Cambridge, UK) -- Part II. Ceremonial of Royal Courts. 4. The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the 16th century / Vladimir Shishkin (St Petersburg State University, Russia) ; 5. Courtier ceremonies, etiquette and courtly space at the Spanish royal sites: an evolution / Jose Eloy Hortal Munoz (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) ; 6. The royal baptism in the Spanish court: art and ritual from the 15th to the 18th century / Immaculda Rodriguez Moya (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) -- Part III. Ceremonial of institutions and representative bodies. 7. Not the ruler, but the land: estates as corporations in the early 17th-century ceremonial order / Gabor Karman (Hunagrian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ; 8. Oath and hand-kissing ceremonies of kingship in a monarchia composita: Sabaudian states from the 17th to the 19th centuries / Andrea Merlotti (Centro Studi della Residenze Reali Sabaude, Italy) ; 9. The parodox of the Lit de Justice : loving and defying the king in the 18th century / Anne Byrne (Birkbeck Univeristy of London, UK) -- Part IV. Tangible and intangible elements in staging ceremonies. 10. Jagiellonians and Habsburgs: dynastic heraldic representations in central Europe from the 15th to the 17th century / Geza Palffy (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ; 11. Operas and masquerades: court rituals and entertainments under George I of Brunswick-Luneburg in electorate of Hanover and Britain / Babara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw, Poland).