Title & Author:

Building the presence of the prince : the institutions responsible for the construction and management of the buildings of European courts (14th-17th centuries) / edited by José Eloy Hortal Muñoz and Merlijn Hurx.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2024]
©2024

Description:

343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm.

Series:

Architectura moderna : architectural exchanges in Europe, 16th-17th centuries, 2030-2967 ; volume 14

Notes:
Papers originally presented at the conference Building the Presence of the Prince: the Institutions Related with the Ruler's Works as Key Elements of the European Courts (XIVth-XVIIth Centuries) held at the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht (the Netherlands) November 8-9, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The management of buildings in the duchy and county of Burgundy at the time of the Valois dukes / Hervé Mouillebouche -- The Brabantine 'office of works' and the centralisation of Burgundian administration / Robert Stein -- Centralisation and decentralisation in Burgundian building administrations in the Low Countries / Merlijn Hurx -- The Prague castle Bauordnung of 1557 : context, conditions, outcome / Sarah W. Lynch -- Building for the high nobility in the Low Countries : the architectural project management of Charles of Croÿ (1560-1612) / Sanne Maekelberg -- Power, environment and territory : the creation and implementation of royal forestry legislation and administration in Portugal from a Mediterranean perspective (fourteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Koldo Trápaga Monchet -- The administration and funding of the royal sites of the Spanish monarchy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : the junta de obras y bosques / Félix Labrador Arroyo -- Building for a royal prince around 1400 : the case of Jean de Berry / Thomas Rapin -- Managing royal buildings in medieval and early modern Portugal / Nuno Senos, Hélia Silva -- The early development of princes' building administrations in the Holy Roman Empire (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) / Anna-Victoria Bognár -- Building the palaces of Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange. The Nassau estates' council, its architects and its building contractors (1625-47) / Konrad Ottenheym -- Between tradition and evolution : the superintendence of the king's buildings in the era of Hardouin-Mansart / Benjamin Ringot -- The functions of the institutions responsible for the ruler's works : princely (royal) geographies as an instrument for princely rule / José Eloy Hortal Muñoz -- Royal ambition and the Stuart office of works 1604-49 / Simon Thurley -- Fracturing or strengthening the royal presence : dynasticism and royal places in early modern Sweden / Fabian Persson -- Palaces and royal places where no kings lived : royalty in the viceroyalties / Manuel Rivero Rodríguez.

Summary:

"By the late Middle Ages, architecture became an increasingly important means of representation of princely rule and institutions. In addition to their symbolic significance, the ruler's buildings served a host of practical purposes. Obviously, castles and fortresses defended the territory, while urban and rural residences served the itinerant court during its proceedings, but their possessions also comprised a wider network of estates that included infrastructure and agricultural, commercial, industrial, and administrative buildings. Together, these networks of sites became a significant means of consolidating the sovereigns' power and served as key instruments for promoting their rule. To tighten the control over their possessions and to ensure their upkeep, rulers set up Offices of Works, permanent administrative bodies entrusted with their management. These building administrations have not yet been systematically studied, and it remains unclear to what extent such centralised institutions developed autonomously, responding to local conditions and requirements, or were part of international developments facilitated by the close networks of the European courts. This volume, with contributions from architectural historians, administrative historians, and court historians, represents a first attempt to compare these institutions on a pan-European scale from the late Middle Ages up to the end of the seventeenth century. It aims to explore the relationships between the local specificities of these organisations and their shared characteristics. From a multidisciplinary perspective, it addresses questions concerning the nature of such administrations, their purpose, organisational structure, and judicial powers, as well as their role in the formation of the state."--Page [4] of cover.

ISBN:

2503593364
9782503593364
ebook
9782503593371

Subject:

Administration of estates Europe History Congresses.
Real estate management Europe History Congresses.
Manors Europe Management History Congresses.
Construction industry Europe Management History Congresses.
Architecture Political aspects Europe History Congresses.
Administration successorale Europe Histoire Congrès.
Immeubles Gestion Europe Histoire Congrès.
Manoirs Europe Gestion Histoire Congrès.
Construction Industrie Europe Gestion Histoire Congrès.
Architecture Aspect politique Europe Histoire Congrès.
Europe Court and courtiers History Congresses.
Europe Politics and government History Congresses.
Europe Politics and government Congresses.
Europe Cours et courtisans Histoire Congrès.
Europe Politique et gouvernement Congrès.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Hortal Muñoz, José Eloy, editor.
Hurx, Merlijn, 1981- editor.
Rijksmuseum Het Catharijneconvent, host institution.
Architectura moderna ; v. 14.

Institutions responsible for the construction and management of the buildings of European courts (14th-17th centuries)

Holdings:

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Copy: 1
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