Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200-1840, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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1 Resilience: An Introduction.- 2 Two Sisters, Two Towns, Two Kings: Facing War and Still Ruling.- 3 Hungaria Hispanica: Resilient Hungary and Its Integration into the Spanish Habsburg System, 1558-1648.- 4 The Futility of Madame: Marguerite of Lorraine and Elisabeth-Charlotte of the Palatinate in the Service of Their Threatened Homelands.- 5 Francis Taaffe, Third Earl of Carlingford, and the House of Lorraine's Exile and Restoration, 1670-1704.- 6 Ex vulnere vigor: Emblematic Representations of Resilience in the Royal Festivals in Honour of Pedro II (1648-1707), King of Portugal.- 7 The Eighteenth-Century Crisis in the European Order and Victor Amadeus II as a Model of Resilience for Italian Patriotism and Cultural Unity.- 8 Charles of Bourbon, King of Southern Italy (1734-1759): The Resilience of the Neapolitan 'Nation', the Development of Reformism and the Strength of the Reaction.- 9 The European Catholic Dynasties and the Fight Against Smallpox: Bourbon Rulers Between Resilient and Resistant Actions.- 10 Resilience Born of Desperation: Keeping Dynasties Going in Eighteenth-Century Europe.- 11 Resilience and Revolution: The Defence of the Dynastic Interests of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma in the Changing World of the Late Eighteenth Century.- 12 The Resilience and Resistance of the Bourbon Monarchy in the Kingdom of Naples (1799-1802).- 13 'We Alone Know': How King Frederick VI of Denmark and His Regime Coped with Defeat in 1814.- 14 'Cholera Adunque è Malattia Nervosa': The 1836-1837 Cholera Epidemic in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Reception, Resilience, and Revolution.