Pope Pius II and the Idea of the Appropriate Thematisation of the Self / Zweder von Martels -- Princes and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Po Valley Courts / Rinaldo Rinaldi -- The Motivation for the Patronage of Pope Julius II / Christine Shaw -- Princes and Patriotism: The Self-Representation of Florentine Patricians in the Late Renaissance / Henk van Veen -- Culture and Power in Naples from 1450 to 1650 / Davide Canfora -- Politics and the Occult at the Court of Edward IV / Jonathan Hughes -- Henry VII and Henry VIII / D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton -- The Court Culture of England under Elizabeth I / Jane Stevenson -- The Marriage of Matthias Corvinus to Beatrice of Aragon (1476) in Urban and Court Historiography / Volker Honemann -- Charles V / Jose Martinez Millan -- 'Official History' at the Court of Philip II of Spain / Richard L. Kagan -- The Sun and Aurora: Philip IV of Spain and his Queen-Consort in Royal Festival and Spectacle / Rina Walthaus