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  • The World of the Favourite
  • Written by author J. H. Elliott
  • Published by Yale University Press, 6/10/1999
  • 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
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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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