Princes and Princely Culture, 1450-1650 (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

380 Pages·2005·3.13 MB·English

by  Arie Johan Vanderjagt

PRINCES AND PRINCELY CULTURE 1450–1650
VOLUME TWO
BRILL’S STUDIES
IN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
General Editor
A.J.Vanderjagt, University of Groningen
Editorial Board
M. Colish, Oberlin College
J.I. Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
J.D. North, University of Groningen
W. Otten, Utrecht University
R.H. Popkin, Washington University, St. Louis-UCLA
VOLUME118/2
PRINCES AND
PRINCELY CULTURE
1450–1650
VOLUME TWO
EDITED BY
MARTIN GOSMAN
ALASDAIR MACDONALD
ARJO VANDERJAGT
BRILL
LEIDEN BOSTON
•
2005
Illustration on the cover: Porte Saint Denis, with Pepin and Charlemagne. Bref et Sommaire recueil,
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Princes and princely culture, 1450-1650 / edited by Martin Gosman, Alasdair MacDonald,
Arjo Vanderjagt.
p. cm. – (Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 118)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 90-04-13572-3 (v. 1); ISBN 90-04-13690-8 (v. 2)
1. Europe—History—15th century. 2. Europe—History—1492-1648. 3. Princes—
Europe—History. 4. Europe—Court and courtiers. 5. Europe—Kings and rulers. 6. Art
patronage—Europe—History. 7. Politics and culture—Europe—History.
I. Gosman, Martin. II. MacDonald, A. Andrew (Alasdair Andrew), 1954- . III. Vanderjagt,
Arie Johan. IV. Series.
D203 .P75 2003
305.5’22’09409031-dc22
2003061017
ISSN 0920-8607
ISBN 90 04 13690 8
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CONTENTS
Preface .................................................................................................. vii
Contributors .......................................................................................... ix
ListofPlates ......................................................................................... xi
PopePiusIIandtheIdeaoftheAppropriateThematisationoftheSelf
ZwedervonMartels ....................................................................... 1
PrincesandCultureintheFifteenth-CenturyItalianPoValleyCourts
RinaldoRinaldi.............................................................................. 23
TheMotivationforthePatronageofPopeJuliusII
ChristineShaw............................................................................... 43
PrincesandPatriotism:TheSelf-Representationof
FlorentinePatriciansintheLateRenaissance
HenkvanVeen ............................................................................... 63
CultureandPowerinNaplesfrom1450to1650
DavideCanfora ............................................................................. 79
PoliticsandtheOccultattheCourtofEdwardIV
JonathanHughes ........................................................................... 97
HenryVIIandHenryVIII
D’ArcyJonathanDacreBoulton ................................................... 129
TheCourtCultureofEnglandunderElizabethI
JaneStevenson............................................................................... 191
TheMarriageofMatthiasCorvinustoBeatriceofAragón
(1476)inUrbanandCourtHistoriography
VolkerHonemann .......................................................................... 213
vi CONTENTS
CharlesV
JoséMartínezMillán ..................................................................... 227
‘OfficialHistory’attheCourtofPhilipIIofSpain
RichardL.Kagan .......................................................................... 249
TheSunandAurora:PhilipIVofSpainandhisQueen-Consort
inRoyalFestivalandSpectacle
RinaWalthaus................................................................................ 277
Bibliography ......................................................................................... 309
Index ..................................................................................................... 345
PREFACE
The present book is the second of two volumes devoted to princes and
princely culture in Europe between 1450 and 1650. The first, published in
2003, contains essays on European courts north of the Alps and the
Pyrenees; it also has introductory essays to the entire project by Martin
Gosman and Olaf Mörke. This second contribution to court culture
discussesselectedcourtsofEnglandandofsouthernEurope.
The discussions and analyses presented in the ensuing chapters are
variously surveys of the self-image of rulers (Von Martels on Pope Pius II
and Van Veen on Florentine patricians), of culture and the arts at princely
courts(Rinaldionthefifteenth-centurycourtsofthePoValley,Shawonthe
patronage of Pope Julius II, and Stevenson on the English court culture of
Elizabeth I), the relation between culture, politics and power (Canfora on
Naples between 1450 and 1650, Hughes on the heady mixture of politics
andtheoccultunderEdwardIV,BoultononthefirsttwoTudorsovereigns,
andMillánonEmperorCharlesV),ofcourtfestivals,ceremoniesandspec-
tacles (Honemann on the marriage of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of
Aragón,andWalthausonPhilipIVofSpainandhisQueen-Consort),and of
theconstructionof‘official’historyatcourt(KaganonthecourtofPhilipII
of Spain). As in the earlier volume, the articles are essentially multi-
disciplinary in focus, and in order to enhance their specific considerations
they all include material from other areas and disciplines than strictly their
own.
The editors wish to thank the contributors to this and the earlier book
for their forbearance and their willingness to quickly answer our queries,
and for their painstaking correction of the proofs. It is hoped that this
volume meetstheirexpectationsandthose,too,ofitsreaders.Thanksgoas
well to Gorus van Oordt who patiently did much of the word-processing.
We are pleased that Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden, Boston) is
publishing these two volumes in Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History; we
aregratefultoIrenevanRossumofBrillforhersympatheticunderstanding
ofunforeseendelays.

CONTRIBUTORS
D’Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton is Fellow of the Medieval Institute and
ConcurrentAssociateProfessorofHistory,UniversityofNotreDame.
DavideCanforaisProfessorinItalianPhilology,UniversityofBari.
Volker Honemann is Professor of Medieval German Literature, Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität,Münster.
JonathanHughesisanindependentscholar.
Richard L. Kagan is Chair of the Department of History, Johns Hopkins
University,Baltimore.
José Martinez Millán is Professor of Modern History, Universidad
Autónoma,Madrid.
ZwedervonMartelsisLecturerinLatin,UniversityofGroningen.
ChristineShawisanindependentscholar.
HenkvanVeenisProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,UniversityofGroningen.
RinaldoRinaldiisProfessorofItalianLiterature,UniversityofParma.
JaneStevensonisReaderinLateLatinandRenaissanceStudies,University
ofAberdeen.
RinaWalthausisLecturerinOlderSpanishLiterature,UniversityofGroningen.