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List of Illustrations | ||
List of Contributors | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | The Emergence of the Minister-Favourite | |
1 | The Institutional Background to the Rise of the Minister-Favourite | 13 |
2 | 'Fortune Has Stripped You of Your Splendour': Favourites and their Fates in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain | 26 |
3 | 'Absolute and Sovereign Mistress of her Grace'? Queen Elizabeth I and her Favourites, 1581-1592 | 38 |
4 | Monopolizing Favour: Structures of Power in the Early Seventeenth-Century English Court | 54 |
5 | Between Mignons and Principal Ministers: Concini, 1610-1617 | 71 |
Pt. 2 | Favourites in Office | |
6 | Can a Bureaucrat Be a Favourite? Robert Cecil and the Strategies of Power | 81 |
7 | Corruption and Punishment? The Rise and Fall of Matthaus Enzlin (1556-1613), Lawyer and Favourite | 96 |
8 | Staying in Power: The Count-Duke of Olivares | 112 |
9 | Words and Wealth in the France of Richelieu and Mazarin | 123 |
10 | Favourite, Minister, Magnate: Power Strategies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 141 |
Pt. 3 | Representations of the Favourite | |
11 | Favourites on the English Stage | 159 |
12 | Francis Bacon: Your Flexible Friend | 184 |
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 | 205 |
14 | 'Peut-on Assez Louer Cet Excellent Ministre?' Imagery of the Favourite in England, France and Spain | 223 |
Pt. 4 | The Twilight of the Favourite | |
15 | Nicolas Fouquet, the Favourite | 239 |
16 | The Demise of the Minister-Favourite, or a Political Model at Dusk: The Austrian Case | 256 |
17 | The Last Favourite? The Case of Griffenfeld: A Danish Perspective | 269 |
Concluding Remarks: The Anatomy of the Minister-Favourite | 279 | |
Index | 310 |
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Add The World of the Favourite, Observers in England, Spain, France and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals appeared to be usurping powers and du, The World of the Favourite to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add The World of the Favourite, Observers in England, Spain, France and many other European states in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries grew increasingly alarmed by the growing influence of favourites, or minister-favourites. These individuals appeared to be usurping powers and du, The World of the Favourite to your collection on WonderClub |