Jeroen Duindam, Duindam Jeroen

Vienna and Versailles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparative study of the courts of Vienna and Paris-Versailles, 1550 1780.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9780521714761
• ISBN-10: 0521714761
• Artikelnr.: 23034473

Autorenporträt

Jeroen Duindam is Lecturer in History, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Part I. Prelude: 1. Introduction
2. The household on the eve of the early modern age
Part II. Contours: 3. Numbers and costs
4. Status and income
Part III. Court Life: 5. A calendar of court life
6. Ceremony and order at court: an unending pursuit
Part IV. Power: 7. Levels and forms of power at court
8. The court as focus of the realm
Part V. Epilogue: 9. Conclusions and conjectures
Manuscript sources
Printed sources
Bibliography
Index.