Princes And Princely Culture 1450-1650

by Gosman, Martin; Macdonald, Alasdair A.; Vanderjagt, Arie Johan

• ISBN13: 9789004136908
• ISBN10: 9004136908
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Many products of medieval and renaissance culture literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, forms of devotional piety, and also the social, political and literary self-representation of rulers found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This second volume on princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650 the first was published in 2003 as volume 118/1 in this series contains twelve essays. These are focused on England under Edward IV, Henrys VII and VIII, Elizabeth I, and under James I and Charles I. The late fifteenth-century imperial court is treated in a piece on Matthias I Corvinus. The courts of Italy are represented by chapters on those of the Po Valley, the Medici of Florence, the Papal courts of Pius II and Julius II, and of Naples. Spanish court culture is discussed in contributions on Charles V, Philip II, and of Philip IV.Contributors include: D Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton, Davide Canfora, Volker Honemann, Jonathan Hughes, Richard L. Kagan, Zweder von Martels, José Martínez Millán, Rinaldo Rinaldi, Christine Shaw, Jane Stevenson, Henk van Veen, and Rina Walthaus.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
List of Plates	xi
Pope Pius II and the Idea of the Appropriate Thematisation of the Self
Zweder von Martels	1	(22)
Princes and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Po Valley Courts
Rinaldo Rinaldi	23	(20)
The Motivation for the Patronage of Pope Julius II
Christine Shaw	43	(20)
Princes and Patriotism: The Self-Representation of Florentine Patricians in the Late Renaissance
Henk van Veen	63	(16)
Culture and Power in Naples from 1450 to 1650
Davide Canfora	79	(18)
Politics and the Occult at the Court of Edward IV
Jonathan Hughes	97	(32)
Henry VII and Henry VIII
D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton	129	(62)
The Court Culture of England under Elizabeth I
Jane Stevenson	191	(22)
The Marriage of Matthias Corvinus to Beatrice of Aragon (1476) in Urban and Court Historiography
Volker Honemann	213	(14)
Charles V
José Martinez Millán	227	(22)
'Official History' at the Court of Philip II of Spain
Richard L. Kagan	249	(28)
The Sun and Aurora: Philip IV of Spain and his Queen-Consort in Royal Festival and Spectacle
Rina Walthaus	277	(32)
Bibliography	309	(36)
Index	345