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Despite a growing body of revisionist literature on the reign of Carlos II (1665-1700), his court remains underexplored. This special issue of The Court Historian invites contributions that examine Carlos II's court from cultural, gender, political, and diplomatic perspectives. Topics of interest include royal festivities, arts, court politics, and the roles of women, aiming to enhance scholarship on the Spanish Habsburg court.
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A wealth of sources has been preserved about the organization and procedure of court ceremonial in the early modern period Nevertheless, in the eyes of European historians, they remained for a long time in the shadow of the prevailing political and social history, which focused almost exclusively on research into social structures and on the grand telling of national stories 1 It was only in the last third of the 20 th century that the dominant structural and sociological principles became the target of criticism by researchers dealing with the history of culture 2 They demanded that in contrast to the history of events, which emphasized the detailed reconstruction of depersonalized historical phenomena and processes, the main object of research should be humanity, and knowledge of its world of thought, value hierarchy and everyday behaviour The concept, semantics and period typology of ceremonial at the early modern Habsburg courts Human behaviour and actions should not be examined in isolation solely through the lens of history, but in the context of other scientific disciplines 3 It is surely no accident that anthropology, ethnology and sociology have consistently dealt with ceremonial since the genesis of these scientific fields Moreover, they were able to provide historians with an appropriate methodology and terminology These disciplines proved that ceremonial represented a constitutive element in the social and spiritual life of various 1
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Nowadays the rulers’ residences and convents (Royal Sites) are often seen by the general public as the curious dwellings of royal families, who lived isolated from society. However, such places were not only built for pleasure, but they belonged to a larger network of buildings and estates that together played an important role in the ruler’s administration. Apart from palaces, these domains often comprised forests, agricultural lands, watercourses and ponds, as well as defence works and industrial and commercial buildings such as mills, tollhouses, and factories. From the Middle Ages onwards, these networks of sites became increasingly important for the consolidation of the sovereign’s power, playing a key role in the promotion of their rule. To improve control over their domanial buildings and to ensure their upkeep, rulers set up permanent administrative bodies entrusted with their management. In principle, the centralization of their building management was a financial reform, however this reform should also be considered within the context of the expansion of the sovereign’s presence throughout the realm. These building administrations have not been yet compared systematically, and it remains unclear to what extent such centralized bodies developed autonomously, responding to local conditions and requirements, or were part of international developments facilitated by the close networks of the European courts. This symposium brings together scholars from various disciplines as a first attempt to compare these institutions on a pan-European scale from the late Middle Ages up to the end of the 17th century. It aims to investigate the relationships between the local idiosyncrasies of these organisations and their shared European characteristics. It addresses from a multidisciplinary perspective questions concerning the nature of such administrations, their purpose, organisational structure, and judicial status, as well as their role in the formation of the state.
During the first third of the 17th century, the viceregal court of Naples reached a great degree of development and maturity in their organisation and ceremonial. The appearance (almost consecutive) of two books of ceremonies, written by two of the viceroys' masters of ceremonies (Miguel Díez de Aux and Jusepe Renao), explains the ceremonial sophistication that took place in a court such as the Neapolitan in the context of the Spanish monarchy of the Habsburgs. The second of these texts, an elaborate manual of ceremonies compiled by Jusepe Renao, active from 1622 to 1637, is the starting point for a number of considerations concerning the growing interest in ceremonial at that historic moment. In this paper I present some of the findings of my dissertation within the Master of Historical Studies, under the title which also heads these lines.
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