{"product_id":"more-than-mere-spectacle-coronations-and-inaugurations-in-the-habsburg-monarchy-during-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries-9781789208771","title":"More than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcross 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…excellent research by a younger cadre of historians, for it testifies that they lay the important groundwork for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of culture and power. These prospects will also be possible thanks to the visual reproductions, the index, and the general care by the editor and publisher, as each essay closes with meticulous notes and a bibliography.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Austrian Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A significant and welcome contribution to the literature on political symbols and ritual that argues for their continued relevance through the early modern era and into the nineteenth century and, by implication, beyond.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Hugh Agnew\u003c\/strong\u003e, The George Washington University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an interesting, coherent, and important collection. It provides broad geographic coverage (from the Low Countries to Galicia) of a topic and an era that has heretofore been relatively understudied.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Nancy M. Wingfield\u003c\/strong\u003e, Northern Illinois University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on Place Names\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eEighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy: Why Do They Matter?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKlaas Van Gelder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Care of Thrones: A Plethora of Investitures in the Habsburg Composite Monarchy and Beyond from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePetr Maťa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Meaningless Spectacles? Eighteenth-Century Imperial Coronations in the Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHarriet Rudolph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Hungarian Coronations of Charles VI and Leopold II and the Representation of Political Compromise\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFanni Hende\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Maria Theresa, the Habsburgs and the Hungarian Coronations in the Light of the Coronation Medals, 1687–1741\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWerner Telesko\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Bohemian Coronation of Charles VI and Its Hidden Message\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePetra Vokáčová\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Inaugurations in the Austrian Netherlands: Flexible Formats at the Interface between Constitution, Political Negotiation, and Representation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKlaas Van Gelder\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Conditioning Sovereignty in the Austrian Netherlands: The Joyous Entry Charter and the Inauguration of Maria Theresa in Brabant\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Cambrelin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Shaping a New Habsburg Territory: The 1773 Lemberg Act of Homage and the Galician Polish Nobility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMiloš Řezník\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pageantry in the Revolutionary Age: Inaugural Rites in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790–1848\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam D. Godsey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e After 1848: The Heightened Constitutional Importance of the Habsburg Coronation in Hungary\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJudit Beke-Martos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Last Habsburg Coronation and What it Means to Be Anointed\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHelen Watanabe O’Kelly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042566930775,"sku":"9781789208771","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789208771.jpg?v=1750954671","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/more-than-mere-spectacle-coronations-and-inaugurations-in-the-habsburg-monarchy-during-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries-9781789208771","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}