Sacred music as public image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III [electronic resource] : representing the counter-reformation monarch at the end of the Thirty Years' War / Andrew H. Weaver.

9781409421207 (electronic bk.)
9781409421191

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xxi, 325 p.) : ill., ports.

ML3917.H65 W43 2012eb

780.943/09032

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in reestablishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy or strong leadership but through a skillful manipulation of the arts. Drawing upon recent methodological approaches to the representation of other early modern monarchs as well as upon the theory of confessionalization, Andrew Weaver places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial musicians into the rich cultural, political, and religious contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Europe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700

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