Court Studies
New & Forthcoming Titles - October 2026
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Staging the Spectacle of Majesty
Ceremonial, Courtly Space, and Collecting under the Spanish Habsburgs
Inmaculada Rodríguez (ed)
This book brings together a range of studies that focus on court ceremony, the Reales Sitios, collecting, and symbolic language as different facets of one and the same phenomenon.
255 p., 24 b/w ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61348-2 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61349-9
Habsburg Worlds, vol. 9
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Harmony in the Universe
Spectacle and the Quest for Peace in the Early Modern Period
Margaret M. McGowan
A new approach to the study of Peace in Renaissance Festivals. Recognizing the potency of war, artists, writers, poets, composers and choreographers sought new ways of promoting harmony in the state through their varied inventions for court spectacle.
192 p., 44 b/w ills, 16 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-59967-0 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-59968-7
European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
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Opera, Scenography, and Social Standing
The Barberini Court in Rome 1628–1656
Leila Zammar
Through the investigation of numerous primary and secondary sources and digital reconstructions, this monograph sheds new light on the interconnections between the Barberini family politics and the development of scenography in seventeenth-century Rome.
321 p., 40 b/w ills, 68 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-58498-0 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-58499-7
European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
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The Embodied Court in the Premodern World
Understanding the Physicality, Performativity and Lifecycle of Bodies at Court in Europe and Beyond, 1400-1800
Janet Dickinson, Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón (eds)
This interdisciplinary volume connects multiple scholarly approaches and expands the significance of court studies and its corollary disciplines (such as gender studies, cultural heritage, literary studies, and medical history).
275 p., 8 b/w ills, 15 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61608-7 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61609-4
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 4
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Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva, Francesco Caprioli (eds)
The global interactions between courts tended to follow diverse paths, so that indirect diplomacy must be formalised as analytic tool to grasp how early modern empires came together and negotiated, by pushing the boundaries of their courtier cultures and agents.
203 p., 4 b/w ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61180-8 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61181-5
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 3
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REMINDER
Painter to the Queen
Michel Sittow, Courtier to Isabella of Castile and the Habsburg Dynasty
Oskar Jacek Rojewski
Rojewski’s monograph explores Michel Sittow’s work and career at the court of Isabella of Castille and subsequently those of her Habsburg relatives, Philip the Fair, Margaret of Austria, and Charles V..
278 p., 33 b/w ills, 96 col. ills, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-61178-5 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61179-2
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 2
Sample Pages Available
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REMINDER
On the Steps of the Throne
The King's Family and Its Political and Cultural Role in the Spanish Monarchy (16th-18th centuries)
Santiago Martínez Hernández, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, Jonathan Spangler (eds)
The chapters that make up this volume deploy diverse interdisciplinary perspectives to rethink the dynastic and political role played by consorts, siblings and royal cousins queens and princes and princesses in the Hispanic monarchy and its subsidiary European kingdoms.
264 p., 11 b/w ills, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-60280-6 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-60281-3
Courts and Courtiers in a Global Context, vol. 1
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The Munich Court Chapel at 500
Tradition, Devotion, Representation
Stefan Gasch (ed)
The volume provides insights into the William IV of Bavaria duke's cultural aspirations and sheds light on a ruler who defined music, religion, and art as expressions of strategic elements that interwove tradition, piety and representation in a programme of governance based on humanist education—a duke whose foresight enabled the Munich court to quickly become one of the most prestigious and famous seats of power in the Holy Roman Empire.
719 p., 4 b/w ills, 123 col. ills, 60 musical examples, 2025
ISBN 978-2-503-61906-4 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61907-1
Épitome musical
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The Inventory of King Henry VIII: Arms, Armour and Ordnance
The Military World
Maria Hayward, Philip Ward (eds)
The Inventory is not only a catalogue of magnificence but also a key text for evaluating the successes and failures of the Tudor monarchy under Henry VIII, telling us what once existed, and enabling us to identify surviving objects.
xx + 528 p., 30 b/w ills, 171 col. ills,13 maps b/w, 2026
ISBN 978-1-905375-43-1 (HB)
The Inventory of King Henry VIII
Sample Pages Available
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The Vatican Cope
Art, Style and Design from Westminster to Rome
Michael A. Michael (ed)
This volume reviews the evidence for the production of ‘opus anglicanum’ in London during the thirteenth century and provides stylistic evidence for dating for placing the cope within the orbit of the Westminster court during the reign Edward I (1272-1307).
164 p., 10 b/w ills, 151 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-53-7 (HB)
Studies in English Medieval Embroidery, vol. 3
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Les extravagances nécessaires
La gestion financière des spectacles et de la musique en Europe aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Francesca Fantappiè (ed)
En étudiant la gestion économique des arts du spectacle dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ce livre ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur les diverses voies culturelles, sociales et politiques qui ont conduit à l’émergence d’un système de plus en plus organisé de production et de consommation des arts éphémères dans l’Europe de la Renaissance et du début de l’époque moderne.
352 p., 3 b/w ills, 26 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-62291-0 (PB)
Épitome musical
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British Royal Weddings
The House of Windsor
Matthias Range
A study of the choice of venue, structure of ceremonial, and music at the weddings of the House of Windsor, unearthing many hitherto neglected sources and enriched with copious illustrations.
xx + 315 p., 31 b/w ills, 45 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-59697-6
Published outside a Series
Sample Pages Available
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Écrire pour la cour ou la lecture mise en scène, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
Guillaume Bazière, Emily Gervais-Ledoux, Margaux Prugnier (eds)
À travers l'étude fine de différents cas où des pratiques littéraires et de publication sont mises en oeuvre dans l'univers curial de l'époque moderne, ce livre propose des clés de compréhensions originales de la place de l'écrit et de la lecture dans la construction et le fonctionnement de la cour.
176 p., 1 b/w ill., 3 col. ills, 2024
ISBN 978-2-503-61196-9 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61197-6
From Text to Written Heritage, vol. 2
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Publications du Centre Européen d’Études Bourguignonnes 65 (2025)
Rencontres de Lausanne (12-14 septembre 2024)
Hôtels et vie de cour en pays bourguignons et voisins (XIVe-XVIe siècles)
xxii + 385 p., 9 b/w ills, 25 col. ills, 1 map color, 2025
ISBN 978-2-8399-4784-8 (PB) / eJournal
Publications du Centre Européen d’Études Bourguignonnes (XIVe-XVIe s.), vol. 65
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Selected Forthcoming Titles
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Christina of Sweden in Context
A Celebration of Seventeenth-Century Queenship 400 Years in the Making
Theresa Kutasz Christensen, Camilla Kandare, Ylva Haidenthaller (eds)
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Crafting a Legacy
Artists and Female Patronage in Early Modern Europe
Noelia García Pérez (ed)
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