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List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations x
Note on Place Names xii
Introduction. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Coronations and Inaugurations in the Habsburg Monarchy: Why Do
Th ey Matter? 1
Klaas Van Gelder
Chapter 1. Th e Care of Th rones: A Plethora of Investitures in the Habsburg Composite Monarchy and Beyond
from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 29 Petr Maťa
Chapter 2. Meaningless Spectacles? Eighteenth-Century Imperial
Coronations in the Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered 67 Harriet Rudolph
Chapter 3. Th e Hungarian Coronations of Charles VI and Leopold II and the Representation of Political
Compromise 99 Fanni Hende
Chapter 4. Maria Th eresa, the Habsburgs, and the Hungarian Coronations in the Light of the Coronation Medals,
1687–1741 119 Werner Telesko
Chapter 5. Th e Bohemian Coronation of Charles VI and Its
Hidden Message 143
Petra Vokáčová
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Chapter 6. Inaugurations in the Austrian Netherlands: Flexible Formats at the Interface between Constitution,
Political Negotiation, and Representation 168 Klaas Van Gelder
Chapter 7. Conditioning Sovereignty in the Austrian Netherlands:
Th e Joyous Entry Charter and the Inauguration of
Maria Th eresa in Brabant 198
Th omas Cambrelin
Chapter 8. Shaping a New Habsburg Territory: Th e 1773
Lemberg Act of Homage and the Galician Polish Nobility 223 Miloš Řezník
Chapter 9. Pageantry in the Revolutionary Age: Inaugural Rites in
the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790–1848 247 William D. Godsey
Chapter 10. After 1848: Th e Heightened Constitutional Importance
of the Habsburg Coronation in Hungary 283 Judit Beke-Martos
Afterword. Th e Last Habsburg Coronation and What It Means
to Be Anointed 303
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly
Index 313
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