Kramer Lindsey (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Volume has light wear; tight, text clean. 63 p., well illustrated. Oversize [br 3 a rt bt].

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2007 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: This collection of essays is a pioneering survey of the spiritual dimensions of kingship in eighteenth-century Europe. It investigates the role of clergymen in the mechanics of the court, the religious observances of monarchs and their entourages, and the importance of religious images and ceremonial in underpinning royal power. The volume compares the British, French, Russian, and some of the German monarchies in order to allow comparisons to be drawn between different national and especially confessional settings. Based on original research and new source material, the fifteen essays by established scholars chart mostly unknown territory. Previous research on the subject has focused on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at the expense of the age of Enlightenment which has widely been regarded as a period of desacralization of monarchy. The essays open up new perspectives on the function of court clerics, conspicuous and internalized forms of aulic devotion, the gendered framing of religion, the purpose of court ritual, and the divide between the public and private spheres of monarchy. Overall the essays maintain that despite the gradual decline of monarchy by divine right, religion still permeated almost all aspects of court life and monarchical representation. The volume thus challenges received wisdom about the disenchantment of kingship and the rise of more rationalized forms of absolutist government during the period between c.1688 and 1789. Contents: 1 Introduction by Michael Schaich 2 The re-enchantment of the world? Religion and monarchy in eighteenth-century Europe by J. C. D. Clark Part I. Religion at court: Personnel 3 Clergy at the Austrian court in the eighteenth century by Derek Beales 4 The clergy at the Russian court, 1689-1796 by Paul Bushkovitch 5 The clergy at the courts of George I and George II by Stephen Taylor 6 The king's confessor: Changing images by Nicole Reinhardt 7 The exiled Stuarts: Martyrs for the faith? by Edward Gregg Part II. Religion at court: Everyday ceremonial 8 Religious ritual at the eighteenth-century Russian court by Simon Dixon 9 Religious rituals and the kings of France in the eighteenth century by Gerard Sabatier 10 Piety at court: The Wittelsbach electors in eighteenth-century Bavaria by Ferdinand Kramer 11 The late Hanoverian court and the Christian Enlightenment by Clarissa Campbell Orr Part III. State occasions 12 The sacre of Louis XVI: The end of a myth by Chantal Grell 13 The funerals of the Habsburg emperors in the eighteenth century by Mark Hengerer 14 The funerals of the Russian emperors and empresses by Lindsey Hughes 15 The funerals of the British monarchy by Michael Schaich 16 The funerals of the Prussian kings in the eighteenth century by Eckhart Hellmuth.…