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Court & Nobility Festivals celebrated in the Royal Favourite's lands at the time of Philip III of Spain
Court Festivals organized by the Royal Favourite of Philip III in his ducal villa of Lerma.
This paper studies how seventeenth-century writers in Spain elaborated different conceptions of interiority in connection with the intimacy they imagined between the king and his favorite or privado. Authors in the days of Lerma, Uceda... more
La aparición del valimiento en 1598 generó el establecimiento de un sistema de gobierno bajo la supervisión de Felipe III y la ejecución de Lerma. Esta cuestión ha sido estudiada desde diferentes perspectivas, aunque se ha mantenido un... more
This article examines a major figure of the court of Louis XIV who has never received a full academic study. It demonstrates how a royal favourite in a same-sex context in the early modern period can be analysed in a similar manner to... more
Dans l’entourage royal, l’ami et le favori ne sont pas aisément séparables sur le plan du contenu de leur relation particulière avec le prince. Des défis majeurs se posent, notamment des problèmes similaires d’ordre conceptuel et... more