{"title":"Coro/nations: Research on the Performance of the Last Two Centuries of Habsburg Rule in Europe","authors":"J. Patrouch","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2269717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2269717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"47 1","pages":"255 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From France to Florence: Marriage Strategies, Political Education and Raison d’État in the Case of Marguerite-Louise d’Orléans","authors":"Vincenzo Lagioia","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2270827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2270827","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the figure of the Grand Duchess Marguerite-Louise d’Orléans and her unhappy marriage. Inserted within the rationale of raison d’état, her biographical narrative reveals important aspects of this royal princess’s political education. The decisions she took relate back to the peculiarities related to her education and upbringing during the events of the Fronde. Further, the close bond with her mother, Marguerite of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans, and her mother’s interventions during the Florentine period, help us to understand the political dimensions of the actions Marguerite-Louise subsequently undertook. Several contemporary sources, notably a lengthy letter from an anonymous former spiritual guide, provide a deeper understanding of her rank and her cultural milieu, the product of a princess’s education in an era of political turmoil and changing attitudes towards elite women’s behaviour.","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"129 1","pages":"185 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neither Duchess of Burgundy nor Archduchess of Austria, but Princess of Asturias: Louis XV of France and the Marriage of his Granddaughter Marie-Louise of Parma","authors":"Sergio Belmonte Hernández","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2270838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2270838","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the behaviour and interference of Louis XV of France in the face of a possible marriage between his granddaughter, Marie-Louise of Parma, and the Archduke Joseph of Austria, heir to the Empress Maria Theresa. The aim is to discern whether the moral arguments put forward by the French monarch were merely a political excuse to avoid this union or if the fears he expressed were genuine. Other cases of royal marriages prior to this one are examined in order to assess this question, as is the extent to which the sovereign used his role as head of the House of Bourbon to impose his will. The negotiation of the engagement of the princess of Parma reveals how dynastic interests still had a strong presence in eighteenth-century Europe, at a time when the ‘national interest’ prevailed as the dominant political element.","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"58 1","pages":"237 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queen Victoria’s Life in Brighton and the Royal Pavilion 1837–1845","authors":"Stephen Conrad","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2270834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2270834","url":null,"abstract":"Queen Victoria’s five visits to Brighton in the first eight years of her reign have not perhaps received the scholarly attention they deserve, and it has often been suggested in the literature on the Royal Pavilion and on her life with Prince Albert that her two visits before her marriage and her three visits afterwards showed a progressive dislike of the town and of the Royal Pavilion itself. By an examination of many of the Queen’s journal entries as well as the opinions of some of those who visited her there or passed their opinions on the building when the Court was in residence at the Royal Pavilion, this article attempts to document these visits in greater detail, and to demonstrate that in fact the Queen’s opinion of both the town and her uncle George IV’s oriental palace had a tendency to fluctuate. The increasing desire by the Queen and Prince Albert to separate the royal family’s private life from their public life, and the realization that the money the palace would sell for would be more use funding, and the contents of the Pavilion of use furnishing, a new wing at Buckingham Palace was enough to seal the fate of the Pavilion in the life of the court as the Queen’s love-hate relationship with Brighton and the Pavilion took a final negative turn","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"69 1","pages":"220 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"England’s Lost Renaissance? Anglo-Venetian Politics between the Household of Prince Henry and the Court of James VI & I","authors":"E. Davies","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2270830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2270830","url":null,"abstract":"This article traces an intellectual and religious network that connected the circles of King James VI and I and his son, Henry, prince of Wales. Henry — who died aged only eighteen — has often been presented as a lost Protestant hero, whose anti-papal militarism radically differed from James’s conciliatory pro-Spanish stance. Concentrating on James and Henry’s relations with Venice, this article draws on documents from England and Italy to demonstrate that the ideals and aspirations of the court circles of the royal father and son were not as different as traditionally thought. Through close engagement with Venetian art and political culture, Henry and his household helped to support and further — rather than undermine — James’s foreign policy. This fresh analysis of James and Henry’s circles offers a new perspective on the role of the Harington family as major players in Jacobean politics. It also sheds light on the significant role of clergymen in court life.","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"67 1","pages":"201 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Long Lost Fresco Cycle by Andrea Sacchi Rediscovered","authors":"Lilian H. Zirpolo","doi":"10.1080/14629712.2023.2269724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14629712.2023.2269724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223593,"journal":{"name":"The Court Historian","volume":"105 1","pages":"264 - 268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Court HistorianPub Date : 2015-06-01DOI: 10.1179/1462971215Z.00000000016
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