The Politics of Space: European Courts

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Malcolm Smuts and George Gorse

PART I. COURTS, SPACE, AND PATRONAGE
Chapter 1. “The City of the Prince: Space and Power”
Marcello Fantoni (University of Teramo)
Chapter 2. “Palace, City, Dominions: The Spatial Dimension of Habsburg Rule”
Jeroen Duindam (University of Groningen)
Chapter 3. “Terrestrial and Celestial Spaces of the Danish Court, 1550-1650”
John Robert Christianson (Luther College, Iowa)

PART II
COURTS AND URBAN SPACE
Chapter 4. “A Forum for the Court of Philip IV: Architecture and Space in Seventeenth-Century Madrid”
Jesús Escobar (Northwestern University)
Chapter 5. “Fashioning a Capital: The Politics of Urban Space in Early Modern Turin”
John Beldon Scott (University of Iowa)
Chapter 6. “Commemorating the Conquest: Local Politics and
Festival Statecraft in Early Colonial Mexico City”
Linda A. Curcio-Nagy (University of Nevada, Reno)

PART III
COURTS, RECEPTION, AND DIPLOMACY
Chapter 7. “The King’s Space: The Etiquette of Interviews at the French Court in the Sixteenth Century”
Monique Chatenet (Centre André Chastel, Paris)
Chapter 8. “Many Courts, Many Spaces”
Patricia Waddy (Syracuse University, New York)
Chapter 9. “Otium cum negotium: Villa Life at the Court of Paul V Borghese”
Tracy Ehrlich (Independent Scholar, New York)

PART IV
GENDER, RELIGION AND POWER
Chapter 10. “A New Place for Queens in Early Modern France”
Nicola Courtright (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
Chapter 11. “The Politics of Court Space in Early Stuart London”
Simon Thurley (English Heritage)
Chapter 12. “The Somerset House Chapel and the Topography of London Catholicism”
Caroline M. Hibbard (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Chapter 13. “Charles II: Buildings, Politics and Power”
Ann Keay (English Heritage)
Chapter 14. “Privacy, Family, and Devotion at the Court of Philip II”
Magdalena S. Sánchez (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania)