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Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Guarino is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Ulster Klappentext This 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 Zusammenfassung This 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsList of figuresList of abbreviationsList of Spanish viceroys of Naples1. Introduction2. The ritual power of viceroysI. The viceregal institutionII. Court ceremonialIII. The viceregal public image3. The power of precedence: social and political hierarchies of civic processionsI. The hierarchical structure of cavalcades in early modern NaplesII. Extraordinary cavalcades and conflicts of precedence4. State celebrationsI. The festive system of early modern NaplesII. Management, patronage, and reception of civic celebrationsIII. Spanish tournaments in Neapolitan state festivities5. Spanish fashion and the governance of appearances in viceregal NaplesI. Regulating appearances: Spanish fashion and the Catholic Reformation, 1517-1648 II. Successes and limitations of Spanish fashionIII. Governing appearances and luxury 6. Political utilisation of imprese in viceregal NaplesI. The uses of imprese in tournamentsII. Neapolitan imprese for the obsequies of the Habsburg monarchs7. Conclusions8. Bibliography