Introduction: Rethinking the Body Politic

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Illustrations xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction: Rethinking the Body Politic 1
7. Chapter 1 Seeing: Royal Frailty at the Court of Charles II of Spain (1690s–1700) 20
8. Chapter 2 Healing: Stuart Princely Ailments and the Politics of Medical Opinion (1700–1714) 60
9. Chapter 3 Writing: The British Succession Question in the Holy Roman Empire (1701) 103
10. Chapter 4 Interacting: Contagion in Bourbon France and the Making of Dynastic Crisis (1711/2–1716) 149
11. Chapter 5 Feeling: The Health of Habsburg Heirs, and the Emotional Empire (1692–1716) 192
12. Conclusion: Destiny, Disease, and Dynasty 235
13. Works and Sources Cited 254
14. Appendices 289
15. Index of Persons 317