More Than Mere Spectacle - (Austrian and Habsburg Studies) by Klaas Van Gelder (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"A significant and welcome contribution to the literature on political symbols and ritual that argues for their continued relevance through the early modern era and into the nineteenth century and, by implication, beyond."</em> <strong>- Hugh Agnew</strong>, The George Washington University</p> <p> <em>"This is an interesting, coherent, and important collection. It provides broad geographic coverage (from the Low Countries to Galicia) of a topic and an era that has heretofore been relatively understudied."</em> <strong>- Nancy M. Wingfield</strong>, Northern Illinois University</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Klaas Van Gelder</strong> is a postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at the history department at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of <em>Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716-1725)</em> (Leuven, 2016).</p>
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