The Court Historian

The Court Historian is published three times a year, in April, August and December. Information about past issues is available here.

Archive Issue

Volume 19, No. 2 (December 2014)

Special Issue:
‘Heirs and Spares’, guest edited by Jonathan Spangler

ARTICLES
Jonathan Spangler - The Problem of the Spare
Matthieu Lahaye - Heir Obedience, Heir Disobedience: 2 Generations of Dauphins for Louis XIV
Sarah Kinkel - Princes and Pamphlet Wars: The Politics of Military Governance in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKS IN PROGRESS
Alexander Dencher - The Politics of Spectacle: Imaging the Prince of Orange During the First Stadtholderless Era
Marlen Schneider - ‘Much Lesser than the Sun’: The Self-fashioning of Philippe I, Duc d’Orléans Blythe Sobol - Son of the Sun King: The Duc du Maine and the Power of Patronage in the Golden Age of Royal Bastards

EDITORIAL INTERVIEW
Philip Mansel - Roy Strong

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Fabian Persson - Power and Architecture in Warsaw
Ellie Woodacre - Kings & Queens 3: Entourage
Jill Bepler - Marrying Cultures

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