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Raised to Rule - Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634 (Paperback)
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Raised to Rule - Educating Royalty at the Court of the Spanish Habsburgs, 1601-1634 (Paperback)
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The children of Philip III of Spain (1578-1621) and Margarita de
Austria (1584-1611) inherited great potential power: the abilities
to declare war or make peace, to advocate religious doctrine, and
to exert lasting influence over art, culture, and taste. The
leadership provided by this generation raises the question of how
royal families learned the roles they played in court, country, and
on the international stage. In Raised to Rule, Hoffman presents a
deeply researched and stimulating study of the formative
experiences of children in the royal households of early modern
Spain. Five of the eight children born to the royal couple survived
to adulthood: the future king Philip IV; the future queen regent of
France, Anne of Austria; the Cardinal-Infante Fernando, who rose to
international fame as a general during the Thirty Years' War; the
future Empress Maria, briefly known as the princess of England
during Charles Stuart's 1623 pursuit of a "Spanish match"; and the
Infante Carlos, the constant companion of Philip IV and his
heir-presumptive for nearly a decade, who was named governor of
Portugal but died before he could serve. Hoffman elucidates the
formal instruction and informal training that prepared these
individuals to shape the history of their country and influence all
of Europe. For the heirs of Philip and Margarita, developmental
experiences took place within the social structures and patronage
systems of the royal court-a place that proved to be influential
and precarious, where public and private relationships overlapped
and political metaphors of family relationships reflected the
reality of public service based on personal ties. Drawing on a wide
variety of sources, including palace rulebooks, chronicles,
household accounts, a journal of the royal chapel, diplomatic and
personal correspondence, published and unpublished advice to kings,
and treatises on the education of princes, Hoffman illustrates the
formation of the leadership of Spain and early modern perceptions
of the proper education and function of royalty. Hoffman's Raised
to Rule provides an insightful account of the education of the
Spanish Habsburgs from 1601 to 1634. Her work fills a significant
historiographical gap and offers new revelations into a previously
neglected aspect of royal life.
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