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Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840

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Editors:
  1. Fabian Persson

    1. Linnaeus University, Småland, Sweden

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  2. Munro Price

    1. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

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  3. Cinzia Recca

    1. University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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  • Explores the concept of 'resilience' as understood in various fields
  • Considers how royal courts and monarchies weathered change and crisis
  • Gathers examples from medieval, early modern and modern Europe

Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Resilience: An Introduction

    • Munro Price
    Pages 1-6

  3. Two Sisters, Two Towns, Two Kings: Facing War and Still Ruling

    • Inês Olaia
    Pages 7-20

  4. Hungaria Hispanica: Resilient Hungary and Its Integration into the Spanish Habsburg System, 1558–1648

    • Tibor Monostori
    Pages 21-40

  5. The Futility of Madame: Marguerite of Lorraine and Elisabeth-Charlotte of the Palatinate in the Service of Their Threatened Homelands

    • Jonathan Spangler
    Pages 41-64

  6. Francis Taaffe, Third Earl of Carlingford, and the House of Lorraine’s Exile and Restoration, 1670–1704

    • Stephen Griffin
    Pages 65-83

  7. Ex vulnere vigor: Emblematic Representations of Resilience in the Royal Festivals in Honour of Pedro II (1648–1707), King of Portugal

    • Filipa Araújo
    Pages 85-104

  8. The Eighteenth-Century Crisis in the European Order and Victor Amadeus II as a Model of Resilience for Italian Patriotism and Cultural Unity

    • Adriana Luna-Fabritius
    Pages 105-121

  9. Charles of Bourbon, King of Southern Italy (1734–1759): The Resilience of the Neapolitan ‘Nation’, the Development of Reformism and the Strength of the Reaction

    • Roberto Tufano
    Pages 123-139

  10. The European Catholic Dynasties and the Fight Against Smallpox: Bourbon Rulers Between Resilient and Resistant Actions

    • Giacomo Lorandi, Cinzia Recca
    Pages 141-161

  11. Resilience Born of Desperation: Keeping Dynasties Going in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    • Fabian Persson
    Pages 163-183

  12. Resilience and Revolution: The Defence of the Dynastic Interests of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma in the Changing World of the Late Eighteenth Century

    • Ainoa Chinchilla
    Pages 185-200

  13. The Resilience and Resistance of the Bourbon Monarchy in the Kingdom of Naples (1799–1802)

    • Giuseppina D’Antuono
    Pages 201-213

  14. ‘We Alone Know’: How King Frederick VI of Denmark and His Regime Coped with Defeat in 1814

    • Michael Bregnsbo
    Pages 215-231

  15. ‘Cholera Adunque è Malattia Nervosa’: The 1836–1837 Cholera Epidemic in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Reception, Resilience, and Revolution

    • Maria Gabriella Tigani Sava
    Pages 233-250

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 251-253
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About this book

This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions, with a strength and malleability that allowed them to ‘bounce back’ time and again. This volume highlights the different forms of resilience displayed in European courts during the medieval and early modern periods. Drawing on rarely published sources, it demonstrates different models of monarchical resilience, ranging from the survival of sovereign authority in political crisis, to the royal response to pandemic challenges, to other strategies for resisting internal or external threats. Resilience and Recovery illustrates how symbolic legitimacy and effective power were strongly intertwined, creating a distinct collective memory that shaped the defence of monarchical authority over many centuries.


Reviews

“The allure of Europe’s monarchies and their princely courts remains undiminished but scholars have tended to focus on a single context or a miniscule timeframe. Price, Persson and Recca are to be praised for gathering such an impressive collection of original studies that are truly trans-European and transtemporal in nature. This collection is political history at its finest and this excellent succinct tome will be vital reading for students and scholars of courtly politics alike.”

—Dr Ambrogio Caiani, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Editors and Affiliations

  • Linnaeus University, Småland, Sweden

    Fabian Persson

  • University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    Munro Price

  • University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Cinzia Recca

About the editors

Fabian Persson after completing his doctoral thesis Servants of Fortune in Lund, Fabian Persson is now a Lecturer and Associate Professor in History at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Two recent books are Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity (Amsterdam University Press 2021) and Survival and Revival. Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718 to 1930 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).

Munro Price is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Bradford, UK, and specializes in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French political and diplomatic history. Among his books are Louis XVI and the Comte de Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774-1787 (with John Hardman; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998), The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil (London, Macmillan, 2002) and Napoleon: The End of Glory (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014

Cinzia Recca is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Catania, Italy, in the Department of Education. She recently published a book regarding the queenship of Maria Carolina of Naples through the analysis of her diary (The diary of Maria Carolina of Naples,1781-1785.New evidence of Queenship at Court Palgrave McMillan, 2017).



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840

  • Editors: Fabian Persson, Munro Price, Cinzia Recca

  • Series Title: Queenship and Power

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20123-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20122-6Published: 21 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20125-7Published: 22 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20123-3Published: 20 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2730-938X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 253

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: European History, Cultural History, Political History, History of Medieval Europe, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Modern Europe

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