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The Key to Power?: The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750

The Key to Power?: The Culture of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750

Raeymaekers, Dries
Derks, Sebastiaan

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004274839
ISBN13: 9789004274839
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Proximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of 'access to the ruler' has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which 'access' was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world.

Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.

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