Description:
1. Resilient European courts: An introduction
2. Reviving a battered court and monarchy
3. Expansion and differentiation: Space at court
4. The court as the world
5. Winners and losers in the politics of familiarity
6. Survival and revolutions
7. Living etiquette
8. Ties of honour
9. The rift between monarchy and nobility
10. Magnificent, engaging, or remote
Epilogue
Glossary of Court Positions
References
Author Index
Place Index
Subject Index
