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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: Rethinking the Body Politic
Chapter 1 Seeing: Royal Frailty at the Court of Charles II of Spain (1690s–1700)
Introduction: Trust
I The Social Setting of Seeing
II What Stanhope Saw
III What Stanhope Did Not See
Conclusion: Observing Observers
Chapter 2 Healing: Stuart Princely Ailments and the Politics of Medical Opinion (1700 – 1714)
Introduction: Healing’s Pitfalls
I The Politicization of Healing Practices
II Radcliffe: The Death of Gloucester
III Hamilton: The Queen’s Reproductive Crisis
Conclusion: Political Physicians
Chapter 3 Writing: The British Succession Question in the Holy Roman Empire (1701)
Introduction: An Unsettling Act
I Form and Timing in Epistolary Ceremonial
Form
Logistics
Context
II Forming the Act of Settlement in Hanover
III Forging Notifications in Vienna
Conclusion: Ceremonial Locks and Paper Keys?
Chapter 4 Interacting: Contagion in Bourbon France and the Making of Dynastic Crisis (1711/2 – 1716)
Introduction: On Shifting Grounds?
I Careers and Courtly Interaction in Times of Dynastic Death
II Creating a Crisis in Scribal Newsletters
III The Effects of Crisis-Talk on Interaction at Utrecht
Conclusion: Frailty and Interaction
Chapter 5 Feeling: The Health of Habsburg Heirs, and the Emotional Empire (1692 – 1716)
Introduction: Ill Informed
I Papers of Joy: Emotions in the Holy Roman Empire
II Voices of Joy: Emotions at Court
III The Heir’s Life Cycle in Lived Experience
Conclusion: An Empire of Feeling
Conclusion: Destiny, Disease, and Dynasty
I Fate and Planning in Early Modern Politics
II Royal Frailty in Early Modern News Circuits
III The Role of Dynasty in European History
IV The Hidden Archive of Princely Corporeality
V Corporeality and the Political
Works and Sources Cited
Archival Collections
Newspapers and Periodicals
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Appendices
Appendix 1 Letter Concerning the Young Louis XV (German/English):
Letter Pendterriedter to Karl VI, Paris, 08. 01. 1716,
Appendix 2 Life Expectancy of Habsburg Royal Children (1640 – 1780)
Leopold I (1640 – 1705)
Joseph I (1678 – 1711)
Charles VI (1685 – 1740)
Appendix 3 Life Expectancy of Stuart Royal Children (1629 – 1700)
Charles I (1600 – 1649):
Charles II (1630 – 1685):
James II (1633 – 1701):
Anne (1665 – 1714):
Appendix 4 Life Expectancy of Bourbon Royal Children (1601 – 1774)
Louis XIII (27. 09. 1601 – 14. 05. 1643):
Louis XIV (05. 09. 1638 – 01. 09. 1715):
Louis de France, le Grand Dauphin (1661 – 1711)
Louis XV (1710 – 1774)
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7 Remuneration for Select Members of the Dauphine’s Household
Appendix 8 (a) Illnesses and Deaths (during the 1711 smallpox-outbreak)
Appendix 8 (b) Illnesses and Deaths (during the 1712 measles-outbreak):
Appendix 9 Forms of Celebration as reported in the Wienerisches Diarium (1716, the date refers to the issue)
Index of Persons
Notes
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