The Court Historian

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

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Volume 22, No. 2 (December 2017)

ARTICLES
Mark Bryant – ‘Romancing the Throne’: Madame de Maintenon’s Journey from Secret Royal Governess to Louis XIV’s Clandestine Consort, 1652–84
Shelagh Mitchell – Ladies of the Garter: Edward III; Richard II; Elizabeth II
Federico Piseri - Filius et Servitor. Education to Dynastic Consciousness in the Titles and Subscriptions of the Sforza Princes’ Familiar Letters
Jakub Rogulski - Memory of Social Elites: What Should Not Be Forgotten. The Case of the Lithuanian Princes in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas E. Kaiser – The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France
Barbara Watson Andaya – Rulers, Regimes and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Christina Clark - Enchanted Isles, Fatal Shores: Living Versailles
Jemma Field - A European Court on the Thames
Liesbeth Geevers - The Invention of Dynasty
Jonathan Spangler - Sabaudian Sovereignty

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