More than Mere Spectacle

Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-877-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelder, Klaas van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Note on Place Names

Introduction: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy: Why Do They Matter?

Klaas Van Gelder



Chapter 1. The Care of Thrones: A Plethora of Investitures in the Habsburg Composite Monarchy and Beyond from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Petr Mata

Chapter 2. Meaningless Spectacles? Eighteenth-Century Imperial Coronations in the Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered

Harriet Rudolph

Chapter 3. The Hungarian Coronations of Charles VI and Leopold II and the Representation of Political Compromise

Fanni Hende

Chapter 4. Maria Theresa, the Habsburgs and the Hungarian Coronations in the Light of the Coronation Medals, 1687–1741

Werner Telesko

Chapter 5. The Bohemian Coronation of Charles VI and Its Hidden Message

Petra Vokácová

Chapter 6. Inaugurations in the Austrian Netherlands: Flexible Formats at the Interface between Constitution, Political Negotiation, and Representation

Klaas Van Gelder

Chapter 7. Conditioning Sovereignty in the Austrian Netherlands: The Joyous Entry Charter and the Inauguration of Maria Theresa in Brabant

Thomas Cambrelin

Chapter 8. Shaping a New Habsburg Territory: The 1773 Lemberg Act of Homage and the Galician Polish Nobility

Miloš Rezník

Chapter 9. Pageantry in the Revolutionary Age: Inaugural Rites in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790–1848

William D. Godsey

Chapter 10. After 1848: The Heightened Constitutional Importance of the Habsburg Coronation in Hungary

Judit Beke-Martos

Afterword: The Last Habsburg Coronation and What it Means to Be Anointed

Helen Watanabe O’Kelly

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gelder, Klaas van
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).

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).