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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
- ISSN
- 0067-2378
- eISSN
- 1558-5255
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0067237800021652
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 38 2007 this book, 1. norms and representation, 2. court festivals; 3. women at court, and 4. nobility, regions, inte- gration are not ideally refl ected in the contributions. Th e texts are uneven in length (varying from more than a hundred to as few as thirteen pages) as well as in approach. Th roughout the sections, however, several longer chapters provide a useful chronological overview of the court and its manifest ations, under respectively Emperor Maximilian I (Ingeborg Wiesfl ecker-Friedhuber); Ferdinand II and his Gonzaga spouse (Veronika Sandbichler; Elena Taddei); and Leopold V and Claudia de’ Medici (Sabine Weiss). Th e discontinuous role of the court aft er 1648 is discussed by Astrid von Schlachta, who pays particular attention to the two great Erbhuldigungen of 1665 and 1711. We fi nd many colourful descriptions of cer- emonies and festivities in most of these texts: on the whole, a descriptive approach is dominant. Other contributions focus on themes rather than reigns, such as the “princely mirrors” outlining the behavior of the good prince (Rainer Müller); ordinances dictating rules for women at Sigismund’s court (Michail Bojcov); interior decoration of the Hofb urg in the later eighteenth and
Journal
Austrian History Yearbook – Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18, 2010