Escorial: Power, Piety, and Symbol at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs

by John E. Adamson

A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.

Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a greater influence than the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Castilian fastness of El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. Their rule in the Iberian Peninsula - from 1516, when the dynasty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789542316
• ISBN13: 9781789542318
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
• Length: 224 Pages