More Than Mere Spectacle Coronations Inaugurations in Habsburg Monarchy During Eighteenth

Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance-an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time.

Info autore

Klaas Van Gelder is a postdoctoral researcher at the State Archives in Ghent and at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716–1725) (Leuven, 2016).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Klaas Van Gelder (Editore)
• Autori: Klaas Van Gelder Gelder, Klaas Van Gelder
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.11.2025
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
• EAN: 9781836953654
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-365-4
• Numero di pagine: 338
• Serie: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
• Categorie: Budapest, Case Studies, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, Europe, European History, Democracy, family, Historical, royalty, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, world history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, political, General & world history, Habsburg monarchy, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Diplomacy, Empires & historical states, Nobility, General and world history, Political Power, C 1700 To C 1800, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 18th Century, 19th Century, Revolutionaries, realistic, early modern Europe, Medieval Europe, cultural significance, modern governance, coronation ceremonies, conferred legitimacy, new rulers, Habsburg dynasty, inaugurations, act of homage, kings of europe, elaborate coronations, historical phenomenon