Notes: | Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Reassessing the Public/Private Nature of European Court Cultures: An Introduction -- Dustin M. Neighbors -- 1. Considering Privacy at Court -- Mette Birkedal Bruun and Lars Cyril Nørgaard -- 2. Privacy at Court? Reconsidering the Public/Private Dichotomy -- Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger -- 3. The Monarch Exposed: The Negotiation of Privacy at the Early Modern Court -- Dries Raeymaekers -- 4. Institutionalised Privacy? The Need to Achieve and Defend Privacy in the Frauenzimmer -- Britta Kägler 5. Public Displays of Affection: Creating Spheres of Apparent Royal Intimacy in Public -- Fabian Persson -- 6. The Translation of Court Culture from the Burgundian Court to the Kingdom of Castile: The Sovereign's Privacy and Relationship with Court Artists -- Oskar J. Rojewski -- 7. On Privacy-or Rather the Lack Thereof-at Court in the Polish Literature of the Sixteenth Century -- Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik -- 8. 'Au Milieu d'une Cour Superbe & Tumultueuse': Devotional Privacy at the Court of Versailles -- Mette Birkedal Bruun and Lars Cyril Nørgaard 9. Private Justice or Ducal Power? Testing the Strength of Public Authority and Dynastic Loyalty among Transnational Nobles at the Court of the Duke of Lorraine -- Jonathan Spangler -- 10. The Politics of Privacy: Examining Influence and Personal Relationships at the English and Holy Roman Imperial Courts -- Dustin M. Neighbors and Elena Woodacre -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- 2.1 Anonymous, Maria Theresa Playing Cards with Four of Her Closest Confidants, c. 1751, drawing. Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest/Bridgeman Images. 2.2 Martin van Meytens, The Wedding Banquet of Crown Prince Joseph (II) and Isabella of Parma, in Desserttafel bei der Vermählung von Joseph II. mit Isabella von Parma am 06 October 1760 im Redoutensaal der Wiener Hofburg, c. 1760-63, oil on canvas painti -- 2.3 Martin van Meytens, Maria Theresa with Joseph II as a Child, 1744, oil on canvas painting. Wien Museum, Vienna. Photo: Birgit and Peter Kainz. CC BY 4.0. -- 2.4 Jean-Etienne Liotard, Trompe l'Oeil Portrait of Maria Theresa as an Elderly Woman, c. 1762-63, oil on panel. Private property of Sylvie Lhermite-King, printed with permission. 2.5 Jean Huber (1721-86), Voltaire's Morning, c. 1750-75, oil on canvas painting, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Published in Colin Eisler, Paintings in the Hermitage (New York: Stewart, Tabori and Change, 1990), 21. -- 3.1 Inner courtyard of Coudenberg Palace on the Coudenberg Hill in Brussels, in Erycius Puteanus, Erycii Puteani Bamelrodii Bruxella, incomparabili exemplo septenaria, gripho palladio descripta: luminibus historicis, politicis, miscellaneis distincta & ex -- 3.2 Peephole, c. 17th century. © The Royal Danish Collection, Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen. |
