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- Geevers, Liesbeth, et al.
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Building Dynasties, Shaping States : Dynasty and State Formation in Early Modern Europe
- 2023
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Ingår i: Dynasties and State Formation i Early Modern Europe. - 9789463728751 - 978 90 4855 403 4 ; , s. 7-24
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The introduction discusses the concepts of dynasty and state formation and their interrelated nature. It stresses the need to def ine the concept of dynasty as a kinship group with an acute sense of historical continuity, claiming the right to rule a certain territory and manifesting this claim in political, social and cultural ways; and the related concept of dynasty formation as the acts, conscious or unconscious, whereby such a group achieved and upheld its position as a dynasty, and how that position developed and changed.
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- Geevers, Liesbeth
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Commemorating Humayun: Emperor Akbar, the Akbarnama and the tomb of Humayun (ca. 1570–1605)
- 2018
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Ingår i: The Court Historian. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1462-9712 .- 2056-3450. ; 23:1, s. 27-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay discusses the commemoration of the Mughal emperor Humayun (r. 1530–40, 1555–56) by his son Akbar (r. 1556–1605), focusing both on Akbar’s practice of visiting the tomb and the way in which these tomb-visits were dealt with by contemporaneous chroniclers. The article shows how Akbar’s chief ideologist, Abu’l Fazl, misrepresented Akbar’s history of visiting his father’s tomb, predating these visits by decades and exaggerating their extent. This manipulation of history formed part of Akbar’s broader effort to present himself as a sacred ruler who was unchallenged by his own dynasty.
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- Geevers, Liesbeth
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Het Escoriaal en de Tombe van Humayun vergeleken : De vormgeving van het dynastieke verleden van de Mughals en de Habsburgers in de zestiende eeuw
- 2018
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Ingår i: Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis. - 0040-7518. ; 131:2, s. 237-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Royal tombs and monuments, such as the imperial tombs of India and the Escorial of Spain, are among the best-known monuments of the early modern period. This article compares the Escorial, which served as the dynastic vault for the Spanish Habsburgs but particularly glorified Emperor Charles V, and the tomb built for the Mughal emperor Humayun. Both were built by their sons, Philip II (r. 1556-1598) and Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1603). By tracing the building history and the commemorative practices that emerged around these two buildings we can analyse and compare how these two rulers - who were only the third of their line in a new territory - shaped the memory of their fathers and used it to legitimize their own power.
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- Geevers, Liesbeth
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Ny dynastisk historia
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandia. - 0036-5483. ; 85:2, s. 87-97
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Är det möjligt att diskutera ett nytt forskningsfält som heter ”ny dynastisk historia”? Fanns det då något som vi brukade benämna ”gammal dynastisk historia”? Detta bidrag hävdar att en ny dynastiska historia faktiskt finns – ett fält som har vuxit ut ur många andra fält, såsom statsbildningshistoria, hovstudier, adelsstudier, kvinnohistoria, familjehistoria med mera. Nya insikter om alla dessa fält tillåter en omvärdering av kanske ett av de äldsta inom historieämnet nämligen dynastisk historia. Genom nya perspektiv och forskningsmetoder förvandlas ett ämne som kan verka vara gammaldags och ointressant till något innovativt med stor påverkan på alla fält det växte ut ur.
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- Geevers, Liesbeth
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The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700
- 2023
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical narrative, a community of the dead and a ruling family group. These constructions reflect the fact that dynasties do not only exist in the present, as kings, queens or governors, but also in the past, in genealogies, and in the future, as a group of hypothetical heirs. This book analyses how dynasties were ‘made’ by the people belonging to them. It uses a social institutionalist framework to analyse how family dynamics gave rise to practices and roles. The kings of Spain only had limited power to control the construction of their dynasty, since births and deaths, processes of dynastic centralisation, pressure from subjects, relatives’ individual agency, rivalry among relatives and the institutionalisation of roles limited their power. Including several genealogical tables to support students new to the Spanish Habsburgs, this book is essential reading for all students of early modern Europe and the history of monarchy.
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- Geevers, Liesbeth
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Ties, Triangles and Tangles : Catherine de Medici as Philip II of Spain’s Mother-in-Law
- 2020
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Ingår i: Court Historian. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1462-9712 .- 2056-3450. ; 25:3, s. 186-200
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- After Catherine de Medici became the mother-in-law of Philip II of Spain in 1559, as a result of her daughter Elisabeth of Valois’ marriage to the Spanish king, she set out to augment and multiply the family ties between the Valois and the Habsburgs by negotiating further marriages. These efforts have been ridiculed by her biographers, who accuse her of a naïve faith in marital bonds. In line with more recent French historiography, this article re-evaluates Catherine’s efforts by placing them in the context of other kinship networks, especially the very dense one connecting the royal houses of Portugal and Spain. Seen in this light, it makes perfect sense for the French queen mother to weave an ever more intricate web of marriage alliances herself. It also means that most kinship relations between members of early modern ruling families were multi-layered and being ‘only’ a mother-in-law to a son-in-law was rare, complicating the conceptualisation of this particular role.
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- Gustafsson, Harald, et al.
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Dynastic Marriage Spheres in Early Modern Europe : A Comparison of the Danish Oldenburgs and Three Houses of the Empire
- 2023
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Ingår i: Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe. - 9789463728751 - 978 90 4855 403 4 ; , s. 187-216
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Princely marriages are here seen as a key component in dynasty formation and dynasty securing. The marriages of the Danish royal house and three houses of the Empire are studied for the period c. 1530–1700. Most of them took place within what can be labelled a Scandinavian-German-Lutheran marriage sphere. It was a highly hierarchized sphere with little contact between top (royal and electoral houses) and bottom (comital houses). The will of a princely couple to let their of fspring continue to lead their lives at an appropriate status level, or a higher if possible, together with confessional considerations, seems to explain more of the marriage pattern than purely political considerations.
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