Politics and Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of H. G. Koenigsberger

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 10/12/2010
EAN 9780521527026, ISBN10: 0521527023

Paperback, 328 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English

This volume of essays reflects the interests and expertise of H. G. Koenigsberger, Professor of History at King's College London, who has written and taught widely on early modern Europe, from Sicily and Spain to Germany, France and the Netherlands. The contributors pay tribute to Koenigsberger's range of interest by taking up themes that have resonated through his lectures, seminars and public writings. What emerges from a variety of approaches and topics is an overriding concern with intellectual unity, an overview which encompasses and reconciles the values of the politician or scholar with those of the spiritual idealist. Even the most overtly political of the major cultural figures discussed in these pages, as Robert Kingdon's essay on Calvin demonstrates, bent their political will to the service of an intense spiritual idealism.

Introduction
1. The court of the Spanish Habsburgs
a peculiar institution? J. H. Elliott
2. The magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici
between myth and history Melissa Meriam Bullard
3. Political rhetoric and poetic meaning in Renaissance culture
Clément Marot and the Field of Cloth of Gold Phyllis Mack
4. The unlikely Machiavellian
William of Orange and the princely virtues Guy Wells
5. The Estates of Brabant to the end of the fifteenth century
the make-up of the assembly Emile Lousse
6. Presents and pensions
a methodological search and the case study of Count Nils Bielke's prosecution for treason in connection with gratifications from France Ragnhild Hatton
7. Between Bruni and Machiavelli
history, law and historicism in Poggio Bracciolini Frederick Krantz
8. Constitutional discourse in France, 1527–1549 Sarah Hanley
9. Lieuwe van Aitzema
a soured but knowing eye Herbert H. Rowen
10. John Calvin's contribution to representative government Robert M. Kingdon
11. Luther and the humanists A. G. Dickens
12. Scholars and ecclesiastical history in the Early Modern period
the influence of Ferdinando Ughelli Denys Hay
13. 'By an Orphean charm'
science and the two cultures in seventeenth-century England James R. Jacob
14. The crisis of the European mind
Hazard revisited Margaret C. Jacob
15. Isaac Beeckman and music D. P. Walker
15. Decadence, shift, cultural changes and the universality of Leonardo da Vinci Dorothy Koenigsberger
16. Bibliography of the writings of Helmut Georg Koenigsberger
Index.