Introduction EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORONATIONS AND INAUGURATIONS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY Why Do They Matter?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS x
6. NOTE ON PLACE NAMES xii
7. Introduction EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORONATIONS AND INAUGURATIONS IN THE HABSBURG MONARCHY Why Do They Matter? 1
8. Chapter 1 THE CARE OF THRONES A Plethora of Investitures in the Habsburg Composite Monarchy and Beyond from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 29
9. Chapter 2 MEANINGLESS SPECTACLES? Eighteenth-Century Imperial Coronations in the Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered 67
10. Chapter 3 THE HUNGARIAN CORONATIONS OF CHARLES VI AND LEOPOLD II AND THE REPRESENTATION OF POLITICAL COMPROMISE 99
11. Chapter 4 MARIA THERESA, THE HABSBURGS, AND THE HUNGARIAN CORONATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF THE CORONATION MEDALS, 1687–1741 119
12. Chapter 5 THE BOHEMIAN CORONATION OF CHARLES VI AND ITS HIDDEN MESSAGE 143
13. Chapter 6 INAUGURATIONS IN THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS Flexible Formats at the Interface between Constitution, Political Negotiation, and Representation 168
14. Chapter 7 CONDITIONING SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS The Joyous Entry Charter and the Inauguration of Maria Theresa in Brabant 198
15. Chapter 8 SHAPING A NEW HABSBURG TERRITORY The 1773 Lemberg Act of Homage and the Galician Polish Nobility 223
16. Chapter 9 PAGEANTRY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Inaugural Rites in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790–1848 247
17. Chapter 10 AFTER 1848 The Heightened Constitutional Importance of the Habsburg Coronation in Hungary 283
18. Afterword THE LAST HABSBURG CORONATION AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ANOINTED 303
19. INDEX 313