Los secretos mecanismos de las cortes : Facciones en la Europa moderna
Rubén González Cuerva, Valentina Caldari (éd.)
Rubén González Cuerva, Valentina Caldari (éd.), Los secretos mecanismos de las cortes : Facciones en la Europa moderna, (Librosdelacorte.es, monográfico 2, année 7, 2015), en accès libre : [https://revistas.uam.es/librosdelacorte/issue/view/248]
This monographic issue is based on the contributions presented at two academic meetings marked by a common denominator, that of reflecting on courtly factions as a means to analyse early modern politics. In brief, to what extent can we change our perception of how power was managed and decisions taken if we start from the informal groups surrounding the sovereign ? We collect here the results of the panel The Spanish Factions : Fifth Column or Political Party in Early Modern Courts ?, held in Modena in June 2014 as part of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. In addition, we include selected texts from the congress A Europe of Courts, a Europe of Factions, held in Rome in November 2014. In the first part, the essays question the existence of Spanish factions (which is to say funded by or loyal to the King of Spain) in various European courts and consider the ways in which they developed their activities. In the second part, specific case-studies are taken into account in order to demonstrate the inner workings of a faction and its evolution under female leadership. The discussion forms part of the Marie Curie Action FP7-MC-IEF 328536, which thus has its results partly published and opens opportunities for discussion within the academic community.
Table des matières
Rubén González Cuerva : From the empress to the ambassador : the “spanish faction” and the labyrinths of the imperial court of Prague, 1575-1585
Esther Jiménez Pablo : Oratorian spirituality in the roman court and its incidence on the pro-spanish faction
Valentina Caldari : There is no frendship among princes but for their owne interests. the spanish faction at James I’s court, 1603-1625
Luis Tercero Casado : A fluctuating ascendancy : the “spanish party” at the imperial court of Vienna (1631-1659)
Giuseppe Mrozek Eliszezynski : Service to the king and loyalty to the duke : the Castro family in the faction of the duke of Lerma
Silvano Giordano : Power management at the roman court at the beginning of the 17th century:the case of cardinal Giovanni Garzia Millini
Frédérique Sicard : Continuity and identity at the court of France : parties around queen Marie de Medici and queen Anne of Austria