More than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 31 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 31)

ISBN 10: 1836953658 / ISBN 13: 9781836953654

Published by Berghahn Books, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More than Mere Spectacle: Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 31 (Austrian and Habsburg Studies, 31)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1836953658
• ISBN 13: 9781836953654
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance―an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time.

About the Author

Klaas Van Gelder is a postdoctoral researcher at the State Archives in Ghent and at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Regime Change at a Distance: Austria and the Southern Netherlands following the War of the Spanish Succession (1716–1725) (Leuven, 2016).