Edward Corp

A Court in Exile

The Stuarts in France, 1689 1718

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Produktbeschreibung

The first full study of the exiled King James II's court in France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108379
• ISBN-10: 0521108373
• Artikelnr.: 26008857

Autorenporträt

Edward Corp is Professor of British History, University of Toulouse.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. France, Rome and the exiled Stuarts Edward Gregg
2. The Château Vieux de Saint-Germain
3. The royal household under James II, 1690-1701
4. The royal household under James III, 1701-1712
5. The household servants
6. The Stuarts and the court of France
7. The portraits of the Stuarts and their courtiers
8. The court as centre of Italian music
9. Poetry at the exiled court (with a section by Howard Erskine-Hill)
10. The court as a centre for Catholicism (with a section by Geoffrey Scott)
11. The education of James III
12. From France to Lorraine, 1712-1715
13. From Lorraine to the papal states, 1716-1718
14. The court of Queen Mary at Saint-Germain, 1712-1718
15. The Jacobite community at Saint-Germain after 1718
Epilogue
Appendix: the senior household servants
Bibliography.