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

Table of Contents

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.

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