Dynasty in Motion: Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Pastrnak Patrik
Dynasty in Motion: Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Pastrnak Patrik Bringing together a variety of evidence, such as princely correspondence, travelogues, financial accounts,…
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Dynasty in Motion: Wedding Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Pastrnak Patrik
Bringing together a variety of evidence, such as princely correspondence, travelogues, financial accounts, chronicles, chivalric or Renaissance poems, this book examines marital travels of princely brides and grooms on a comparative trans-European scale.This book argues that these journeys were extraordinary events and were instrumental for dynastical and monarchical self-representation, and channelled aspirations and anxieties of princely houses when facing each other. Hundreds of diplomats, envoys, aristocrats, city officials, low-status personnel, soldiers, artists, musicians, poets, and humanists were involved in preparing, executing, and commemorating them. Each such journey was a little earthquake that resonated across all layers of society.
Stretching far beyond the mere physical movements of the future royal spouse, the journeys snowballed into a myriad of other