Toby Osborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby Osborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborne |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORNE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
La Grande Galleria
This collection of fifteen essays – four of which are reprinted from journals – focuses on the development of the ducal collection in Turin across the reigns of Emanuele Filiberto (1553–1580) and Carlo Emanuele (1580–1630), as the collection evolved from a ‘Teatro universale di tutte le scienze’ to the Grande Galleria, which included twenty-two cabinets and roughly 14,000 volumes. This evolution also tells the story of the ducal states, reconstru…
Corte britannica e stati italiani
The Shroud at Court
The Shroud at Court: History, Usages, Places and Images of a Dynastic Relic. Pablo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, and Andrea Nicolotti, eds. Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 13. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 378 pp. €160. - Volume 74 Issue 3
The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome
The papal conclave was—and is—one of the great set-piece events of the Catholic Church. While it was customary, in the early modern period at the least, to view the election of a pope ideally as the work of the Holy Spirit moving through the cardinals as the electors, for many outsiders, the conclave resonated with secrecy and insider politicking (despite the porous nature of the conclave’s boundaries). This study by John M. Hunt, though, is not …
Medici Women
This volume of ten essays, edited by Judith C. Brown and Giovanna Benadusi, focuses on nine women—six outsiders who married into the Medici dynasty, and three Medici princesses who married into other princely families. The absences, perhaps surprisingly, are the two most famous Medici women of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries—the French queen consorts, Catherine and Marie. That is not to deny the considerable value of this cohe…
Introduction
The essays in this collection explore diplomacy as a form of cultural translation. Out of necessity, Europeans sought new ways of conducting diplomacy in the changing environment of the early modern world, as they grappled with challenges from within their old but crumbling respublica christiana , and also with changing relations with powers and communities beyond it. Reflecting the current vitality of research into early modern diplomacy and pra…
A Constellation of Courts
One Foot in the Palace
In 1995, a reception at the Banqueting House on Whitehall marked the formal creation of the Society for Court Studies, the aim of which, perhaps tacitly, was to make the study of princely courts academically valued once again. For too long, it might have been said, court history was seen as irrelevant at best, and at worst elitist, a distraction from the ‘real’ histories of men and material, or of once-marginalised social and political groups. Th…
Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years’ War
The Surrogate War between the Savoys and the Medici
promotion of the Medici from a banking family to a princely dynasty during the sixteenth century was one of the political success stories of early modern Italy.1 On 27 August 1569, Pope Pius V Ghislieri signed the bull Pontifex Maximus in which he declared his intention to recognize Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence, as grand duke of Tuscany, out of gratitude for his services to the church and the defence of the Catholic faith, not least in su…
Van Dyck, Alessandro Scaglia and the Caroline Court
Friendship', with a rich variety of meanings, pervaded early-modern social and political culture, from the levels of individual interactions to the high politics of international relations. It meant more than affection, restricted to the realms of private life among social equals. Courtiers, clients, and patrons linked friendship with obligation, alliance and favouritism in the politicised worlds of public life and the court, encompassing horizon…
Chimeres, monopoles and stratagems’
In July 1631 Marie de' Medici, the queen mother of Louis XIII of France, arrived in the Spanish Netherlands as an exile. After passing through various towns she made her entry to the capital of Brussels in the company of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. According to the queen mother's official apologist, Jean Puget de la Serre, the spectacular event was marked with the pomp and ceremony reserved for a visiting sovereign: as they entered the ci…
Abbot Scaglia, the Duke of Buckingham and Anglo–Savoyard Relations During the 1620s
This article examines diplomatic relations between England and the Italian duchy of Savoy during the 1620s through the Savoyard ambassador, Alessandro Scaglia. Historians have generally viewed England’s participation in the Thirty Year’s War from an essentially English viewpoint, underplaying as a result the critical importance of the Anglo-French and Anglo-Spanish wars to Savoy. The article argues that Scaglia drew upon dynastic affinities betwe…
Family Power in Southern Italy
Family Power in Southern Italy
The Surrogate War between the Savoys and the Medici
promotion of the Medici from a banking family to a princely dynasty during the sixteenth century was one of the political success stories of early modern Italy.1 On 27 August 1569, Pope Pius V Ghislieri signed the bull Pontifex Maximus in which he declared his intention to recognize Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence, as grand duke of Tuscany, out of gratitude for his services to the church and the defence of the Catholic faith, not least in su…
Chimeres, monopoles and stratagems’
In July 1631 Marie de' Medici, the queen mother of Louis XIII of France, arrived in the Spanish Netherlands as an exile. After passing through various towns she made her entry to the capital of Brussels in the company of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. According to the queen mother's official apologist, Jean Puget de la Serre, the spectacular event was marked with the pomp and ceremony reserved for a visiting sovereign: as they entered the ci…
Introduction
The essays in this collection explore diplomacy as a form of cultural translation. Out of necessity, Europeans sought new ways of conducting diplomacy in the changing environment of the early modern world, as they grappled with challenges from within their old but crumbling respublica christiana , and also with changing relations with powers and communities beyond it. Reflecting the current vitality of research into early modern diplomacy and pra…
Van Dyck, Alessandro Scaglia and the Caroline Court
Friendship', with a rich variety of meanings, pervaded early-modern social and political culture, from the levels of individual interactions to the high politics of international relations. It meant more than affection, restricted to the realms of private life among social equals. Courtiers, clients, and patrons linked friendship with obligation, alliance and favouritism in the politicised worlds of public life and the court, encompassing horizon…
Family Power in Southern Italy
Family Power in Southern Italy
Chimeres, monopoles and stratagems’
In July 1631 Marie de' Medici, the queen mother of Louis XIII of France, arrived in the Spanish Netherlands as an exile. After passing through various towns she made her entry to the capital of Brussels in the company of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia. According to the queen mother's official apologist, Jean Puget de la Serre, the spectacular event was marked with the pomp and ceremony reserved for a visiting sovereign: as they entered the ci…
Abbot Scaglia, the Duke of Buckingham and Anglo–Savoyard Relations During the 1620s
This article examines diplomatic relations between England and the Italian duchy of Savoy during the 1620s through the Savoyard ambassador, Alessandro Scaglia. Historians have generally viewed England’s participation in the Thirty Year’s War from an essentially English viewpoint, underplaying as a result the critical importance of the Anglo-French and Anglo-Spanish wars to Savoy. The article argues that Scaglia drew upon dynastic affinities betwe…
The Surrogate War between the Savoys and the Medici
promotion of the Medici from a banking family to a princely dynasty during the sixteenth century was one of the political success stories of early modern Italy.1 On 27 August 1569, Pope Pius V Ghislieri signed the bull Pontifex Maximus in which he declared his intention to recognize Cosimo I de Medici, duke of Florence, as grand duke of Tuscany, out of gratitude for his services to the church and the defence of the Catholic faith, not least in su…
Van Dyck, Alessandro Scaglia and the Caroline Court
Friendship', with a rich variety of meanings, pervaded early-modern social and political culture, from the levels of individual interactions to the high politics of international relations. It meant more than affection, restricted to the realms of private life among social equals. Courtiers, clients, and patrons linked friendship with obligation, alliance and favouritism in the politicised worlds of public life and the court, encompassing horizon…
Reason of State, Propaganda and the Thirty Years’ War
One Foot in the Palace
In 1995, a reception at the Banqueting House on Whitehall marked the formal creation of the Society for Court Studies, the aim of which, perhaps tacitly, was to make the study of princely courts academically valued once again. For too long, it might have been said, court history was seen as irrelevant at best, and at worst elitist, a distraction from the ‘real’ histories of men and material, or of once-marginalised social and political groups. Th…
Introduction
The essays in this collection explore diplomacy as a form of cultural translation. Out of necessity, Europeans sought new ways of conducting diplomacy in the changing environment of the early modern world, as they grappled with challenges from within their old but crumbling respublica christiana , and also with changing relations with powers and communities beyond it. Reflecting the current vitality of research into early modern diplomacy and pra…
A Constellation of Courts
Medici Women
This volume of ten essays, edited by Judith C. Brown and Giovanna Benadusi, focuses on nine women—six outsiders who married into the Medici dynasty, and three Medici princesses who married into other princely families. The absences, perhaps surprisingly, are the two most famous Medici women of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries—the French queen consorts, Catherine and Marie. That is not to deny the considerable value of this cohe…
The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome
The papal conclave was—and is—one of the great set-piece events of the Catholic Church. While it was customary, in the early modern period at the least, to view the election of a pope ideally as the work of the Holy Spirit moving through the cardinals as the electors, for many outsiders, the conclave resonated with secrecy and insider politicking (despite the porous nature of the conclave’s boundaries). This study by John M. Hunt, though, is not …
The Shroud at Court
The Shroud at Court: History, Usages, Places and Images of a Dynastic Relic. Pablo Cozzo, Andrea Merlotti, and Andrea Nicolotti, eds. Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 13. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 378 pp. €160. - Volume 74 Issue 3
La Grande Galleria
This collection of fifteen essays – four of which are reprinted from journals – focuses on the development of the ducal collection in Turin across the reigns of Emanuele Filiberto (1553–1580) and Carlo Emanuele (1580–1630), as the collection evolved from a ‘Teatro universale di tutte le scienze’ to the Grande Galleria, which included twenty-two cabinets and roughly 14,000 volumes. This evolution also tells the story of the ducal states, reconstru…
Corte britannica e stati italiani
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