دانلود کتاب The World of the Favourite

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Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The Emergence of the
1. The Institutional Background to the Rise of the Minister—Favourite J. A. A. Thompson
The Minister—Favourite and Government Growth
The Minister—Favourite and the Court
The Minister—Favourite and the Country
The Minister—Favourite and the State
Notes
2. ‘Fortune Has Stripped You of Your Splendour’: Favourites and their Fates in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain James M. Boyden
Notes
3. ‘Absolute and Sovereign Mistress of her Grace’? Queen Elizabeth I and her Favourites, 1581-1592 Paul E. J. Hammer
Notes
4. Monopolizing Favour: Structures of Power in the Early Seventeenth-Century English Court Linda Levy Peck
‘Our Purses Fill’: The Expansion of Royal Bounty
Gender and the Court: Family, Sex and Marriage
Reconsidering the Paradigm
Notes
5. Between Mignons and Principal Ministers: Concini, 1610-1617 J. -F. Dubost
Notes
Part Two: Favourites in Office
6. Can a Bureaucrat Be a Favourite? Robert Cecil and the Strategies of Power Pauline Croft
Notes
7. Corruption and Punishment? The Rise and Fall of Matthéus Enzlin (1556-1613), Lawyer and Favourite Ronald G. Asch
Bureaucracy or Personal Rule: Wiirttemberg in the 1590s
A Mere Locator Operarum
The Structure of a Career
Notes
8. Staying in Power: The Count-Duke of Olivares J. H. Elliott
Notes
9. Words and Wealth in the France of Richelieu and Mazarin Orest Ranum
Notes
10. Favourite, Minister, Magnate: Power Strategies in the Polish—Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Structure of Power
Favourites—Ministers—Magnates: A Report from the British Isles
Illustrations
Magnate and Courtier: An Alternative
From Favourite to Minister: A Case Study
The Rise and Decline of the Magnates: Poland and the West Compared
Notes
Part Three: Representations of the Favourite
11. Favourites on the English Stage Blair Worden
Notes
12. Francis Bacon: Your Flexible Friend David Wootton
The Giving of Gifts
The Politics of Friendship
Three Friends, Three Essays
ESSEX
BUCKINGHAM
TOBY MATTHEW
Notes
13. Images of Evil, Images of Kings: The Contrasting Faces of the Royal Favourite and the Prime Minister in Early Modern European Political Literature, c. 1580-c. 1650 Antonio Feros
Introduction
Evil Counsellors
Illustrations
The King’s Friend and Ministro Principal
Le Premier Ministre
The Favourite as a Private Companion
Epilogue
Notes
14. ‘Peut-on Assez Louer Cet Excellent Ministre?’ Imagery of the Favourite in England, France and Spain Jonathan Brown
Notes
Part Four: The Twilight of the Favourite
15. Nicolas Fouquet, the Favourite Manqué M. Fumaroli
Illustrations
Notes
16. The Demise of the Minister—Favourite, or a PoliticalModel at Dusk: The Austrian Case Jean Bérenger
Notes
17. The Last Favourite? The Case of Griffenfeld: Danish Perspective Knud J. V. Jespersen
Peder Griffenfeld
The Last Minister—Favourite?
Preconditions of the Minister—Favourite
Absolutism after Griffenfeld
Notes
Concluding Remarks: The Anatomy of the uinister—Favourite L. W. B. Brockliss
Characteristics
Rise
Decline
Unanswered Questions
Notes
Index
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