| Description |
1 online resource (323 p.) |
| Series |
Lives of Royal Women Ser |
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Lives of Royal Women Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Infanta Maria: a discreet childhood (1528-1539) -- 2 The orphan learning at court (1539-1548) -- 2.1 Places and people -- 2.2 Education and spirituality -- 2.3 Authority and its limits -- 3 The exercise of authority: marriage and the Iberian regency (1548-1551) -- 3.1 Negotiating a life in common -- 3.2 A household of her own -- 3.3 Maria of Austria, sole governor -- 4 The Queen of Bohemia fighting for her own space (1552-1564) |
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4.1 Failed cultural adaptation -- 4.2 A household of her own -- 4.3 Ambassadors, ladies, and chaplains -- 4.4 A space for decisions: forming a Catholic family -- 5 Empress consort, discreet mediator (1564-1576) -- 5.1 Communications: spaces, agents, modalities -- 5.2 The family: dynasty and confession -- 5.3 Negotiating activity -- 6 The uncertain role of the dowager empress (1576-1581) -- 6.1 Widowhood, hope, and melancholy -- 6.2 Solitude and crisis -- 6.3 Maria and the ambassador Borja: politics and patronage -- 7 Establishing an imperial household in Madrid (1581-1587) |
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7.1 The return journey -- 7.2 To govern or to retire? -- 7.3 The palace in the monastery -- 7.4 The establishment of the imperial household -- 8 The empress without an empire and the dynastic turn (1587-1598) -- 8.1 An alternative patroness? Court and piety -- 8.2 The problems of Matthias, Maximilian, and Rudolf -- 8.3 The dynastic turn -- 9 New opportunities? The reign of Philip III (1598-1603) -- 9.1 High expectations (1598-1599) -- 9.2 The itinerant court and the move to Valladolid -- 9.3 The empress's household and council: the last stronghold -- 9.4 Death, heritage, posterity -- Conclusions |
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Dynastic mediator -- Confessional agent -- Cultural and social transfer -- Sources and bibliography -- Unprinted primary sources -- Printed primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Habsburg, House of.
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Maria, Empress, consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1528-1603.
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Maria, Empress, consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1528-1603 -- Influence
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Habsburg, House of fast |
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Maria, Empress, consort of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1528-1603 fast |
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Empresses -- Holy Roman Empire -- Biography
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Empresses
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Spain -- History -- House of Austria, 1516-1700.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126077
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Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Maximilian II, 1564-1576.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061614
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Madrid (Spain) -- Biography
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Europe -- Holy Roman Empire
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Spain
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Spain -- Madrid
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000468892 |
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1000468895 |
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