The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610–1643
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-895761-4 (ISBN)
Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the whims of Cardinal Richelieu.
Seeking to correct this narrative, Marc W. S. Jaffré here offers a comprehensive analysis of the court's institutional, political, social, cultural, ceremonial, and financial development, emphasizing its very wide range of active participants, from the nobility, financiers, merchants, to lower ranking household members. The close study engages with the key issues of Louis's reign: the destabilizing role of the minister-favourite, Cardinal Richelieu; the turbulent family dynamics that led Louis to wage wars against his mother, his brother, and his cousins; the backdrop of war, both with the Huguenots and within the context of the Thirty Years War; and the rise of salon culture.
In so doing, the court is shown to be a central, vibrant, and misunderstood element of early modern French history and culture. Courtiers, artisans, merchants, and financiers, among others, are shown to have played key roles in shaping the institutional, political, cultural, economic, and military framework of the court, and Louis XIII's reign more generally. In challenging the top-down paradigm prevalent in court studies, this monograph provides crucial correctives to the existing narrative that Louis XIII's court was weak or unimportant and simultaneously revises how early modern courts and their development have been understood historiographically.
Marc W. S. Jaffré is an historian specializing in the reigns of Henri IV and Louis XIII of France. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of St Andrews. He has been a lecturer at the Universities of St Andrews, Oxford (Balliol College), and Durham and is currently based at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where he is a researcher for the 'Histories of Transitional Justice Project'. He remains an Honorary Fellow at Durham University and is also Deputy Chair of the European Branch of the Society for Court Studies.
Introduction
Court Institutions
1: 'Confusion from the Kitchens to the Cabinet': The Royal Household Indoors
2: 'In One Word, the Disorder is Universal'Horses, Hounds, and Security
Court Culture
3: 'This Crown is like a Vacant Abbey': Favour, Faction, and Politics
4: 'Maintained in the Rank in Which he Belongs': The Court, Courtiers, and the Development of Royal Ceremonial
5: 'Without a Suite, Without a Court, Without Power'? Entertainment, Court, and the City
Court Business
6: 'In Bravery, Diet, and Furniture, They Exceed the Greatest of the Noblesse': Finance and Financiers
7: 'From Shoemaker I Could Become Councillor': Merchant Courtiers' Strategies and Ambitions
Court Travel
8: 'The God of the Race': Louis XIII and his Itinerant Court
9: 'We Could See the Battle from the King's Lodgings': The Court at War
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 778 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-895761-0 / 0198957610 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-895761-4 / 9780198957614 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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