{"product_id":"representing-the-kings-splendour-9780719078224","title":"Representing the Kings Splendour","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book deals with the communication of power of the viceregal court of Spanish Naples in the seventeenth-century, showing how various forms of media affect politics, culture, and society -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book has many overall merits: it examines topics and materials that have received limited attention by historians, and effectively contextualizes them within broader trends and issues of early modern political culture...(Guarino) persuasively analyzes the difficulties inherent in the viceroy's status...The book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern political culture and ritual, and of early modern Europe in general.\u003cbr\u003eTommaso Astarita, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 17, Issue 2, 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuarino’s goals are achieved, in placing the visual court culture of Viceregal Naples in context of events and cultural shifts of the period, and in  particular, by looking at the mostly positive reception of Spanish culture by the people of Naples . . . One of the chief strengths of this book is its clarity.  Guarino is adept at setting up each chapter, and linking from section to section. . . \"Representing the King’s Splendour\" is a useful and deeply thought through study,  making use of an impressive variety of printed sources.\u003cbr\u003eErebea, 2 (2012) [issn: 0214-0691] pp. 421-424.\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003eList of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eList of Spanish viceroys of Naples\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. The ritual power of viceroys\u003cbr\u003eI. The viceregal institution\u003cbr\u003eII. Court ceremonial\u003cbr\u003eIII. The viceregal public image\u003cbr\u003e3. The power of precedence: social and political hierarchies of civic processions\u003cbr\u003eI. The hierarchical structure of cavalcades in early modern Naples\u003cbr\u003eII. Extraordinary cavalcades and conflicts of precedence\u003cbr\u003e4. State celebrations\u003cbr\u003eI. The festive system of early modern Naples\u003cbr\u003eII. Management, patronage, and reception of civic celebrations\u003cbr\u003eIII. Spanish tournaments in Neapolitan state festivities\u003cbr\u003e5. Spanish fashion and the governance of appearances in viceregal Naples\u003cbr\u003eI. Regulating appearances: Spanish fashion and the Catholic Reformation, 1517-1648 \u003cbr\u003eII. Successes and limitations of Spanish fashion\u003cbr\u003eIII. Governing appearances and luxury \u003cbr\u003e6. Political utilisation of imprese in viceregal Naples\u003cbr\u003eI. The uses of imprese in tournaments\u003cbr\u003eII. Neapolitan imprese for the obsequies of the Habsburg monarchs\u003cbr\u003e7. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e8. Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037321396567,"sku":"9780719078224","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719078224.jpg?v=1750935282","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/representing-the-kings-splendour-9780719078224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}