Series Announcement: Early Modern Court Studies (original) (raw)

General Editors: Erin Griffey (Chair), University of Auckland; Vanessa de Cruz Medina, Pompeu Fabra University; Luc Duerloo, University of Antwerp; Jemma Field, Brunel University; Liesbeth Geevers, Lund University; Timothy McCall, Villanova University Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Early Modern Court Studies encourages rigorous, fresh examination on any aspect of court culture: political, military and social history; confessional identity and relationships with the church and monasteries/nunneries; court chapels and religious rituals; diplomacy, ritual and ceremonial; courtly retinues and household staff; visual and material culture; patronage, collecting and display; gender, sexuality, marriage, domesticity; architecture, furniture, interior decoration and garden design; clothing, jewelry and regalia; music; food and banquets; letter writing, diaries and personal and ambassadorial accounts; drama and dance; hygiene, medicine and beauty; the senses and emotions. It invites proposals on individual courts and comparative studies, both monographs and essay collections, and encourages cross-disciplinary work and the publication of transcriptions and translations of primary sources within the context of these studies.