List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Part I. Coronation and Enthronement 1. Where exactly is the throne? Locating sovereignty in sixteenth-century Ottoman succession rituals, N. Zeynep Yelce (Sabanci University, Turkey) 2. Proclamations and coronations in Palermo (1700-1735): Performing kingship and celebrating civic power, Pablo Gonzalez Tornel (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 3. Nicholas Dixon, The evolution of the British coronation rite, 1761-1953, Nicholas Dixon (Independent Scholar, UK) Part II. Ceremonial of Royal Courts 4. The daily court ceremonial of the French queen in the reign of Henry III, Vladimir Shishkin (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) 5. Courtly and ceremonial spaces in Spanish Royal Sites: an evolution from the Renaissance to the Baroque, Jose Eloy Hortal Munoz (University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain) 6. Royal baptism in the Spanish court: art and ritual from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Inmaculada Rodriguez Moya (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 7. From Marshal to Monarch. State ceremonies and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte in post-Napoleonic Sweden, Mikael Alm Part III. Ceremonial of Institutions and Representative Bodies 8. Not the ruler, but the land: Estates and ceremonial order at the Diet of Besztercebanya, 1620, Gabor Karman (Institute of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary) 9. Oath-taking and hand-kissing: ceremonies of sovereignty in a Monarchia composita, the States of the House of Savoy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, Andrea Merlotti (Centro studi delle Residenze Reali Sabaude, Italy) Part IV. Tangible and Intangible Elements in Staging Ceremonies 10. Jagiellonians and Habsburgs: heraldic dynastic representation in Central Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, Geza Palffy (Institute of Hungary in Budapest, Hungary) 11. Operas and masquerades: court rituals and entertainments under Ernest Augustus and George I of Brunswick-Luneburg (1660-1727) in the Electorate of Hanover and Great Britain, Babara Arciszewska (University of Warsaw, Poland) 12. Public staging, visualization and performance of eighteenth-century Danish absolutism: Queen Caroline Mathilde's journey across Funen as ritual, Michael Bregnsbo (University of Southern Denmark at Odense, Denmark) Select Bibliography Index
