“Da parente”: A Special Form of the Vienna Court Ceremony in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
This paper explores the way the strict Viennese court ceremony was altered and simplified in the 1750s and 1760s during the visits of Saxon-Polish princes, who were related to the imperial family but were landless and not crown princes. It depicts in detail this lesser-known type of visit, called “d...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles
2016
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | This paper explores the way the strict Viennese court ceremony was altered and simplified in the 1750s and 1760s during the visits of Saxon-Polish princes, who were related to the imperial family but were landless and not crown princes. It depicts in detail this lesser-known type of visit, called “da parente” along with the changes in the audience, the “Re-Visite”, the problems related to the accommodation and catering for the visitors as well as their participation in court leisure events, using ceremonial protocols and ceremony records, envoys’ reports, and the correspondence and diaries of the princes, held in archives in Budapest, Dresden and Vienna. By comparing these sources and the published ceremony handbooks, this study highlights the differences between established court ceremony and this special kind of informal visit. It is demonstrable that the „da parente” type of visit was not applied as a standard or a norm in the court of Vienna, but invoked only in exceptional cases, with visitors who were related to the imperial family. |
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