Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Martin Gosman , Alasdair MacDonald and Arjo Vanderjagt -- Princely Culture: Friendship or Patronage? / Martin Gosman -- The Symbolism of Rulership / Olaf Mörke -- The Princely Culture of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy / Arjo Vanderjagt -- Images of Empire: Francis I and his Cartographers / Gayle K. Brunelle -- Princely Culture and Catherine de Médicis / Margriet Hoogvliet -- Henry IV and the Diseased Body Politic / Annette Finley-Croswhite -- Princely Culture in Scotland under James III and James IV / Alasdair A. MacDonald -- James V of Scots as Literary Patron / Janet Hadley Williams -- The Reassertion of Princely Power in Scotland: The Reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and King James VI / Michael Lynch -- A Cultural Centre in the Southern Netherlands: The Court of Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) in Mechelen / Dagmar Eichberger -- Courts and Culture in Renaissance Scandinavia / Alan Swanson -- Power and Creativity at the Court of Heidelberg / Rita Schlusemann -- The Court of Emperor Maximilian I / Jan-Dirk Müller -- Bibliography / Martin Gosman , Alasdair MacDonald and Arjo Vanderjagt -- Index / Martin Gosman , Alasdair MacDonald and Arjo Vanderjagt.

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This book contains thirteen essays on European princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650. Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, and even forms of devotional practice – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This volume, the first of two concentrating on the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, has essays on selected courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees: the court of Burgundy under the Valois dukes, that of France under Catherine de Médicis and of Henry IV, that of Scotland under Jameses III, IV, V, VI and of Mary, Queen of Scots, that of Margaret of Austria at Mechelen, of Scandinavia, of Heidelberg under Frederick the Victorious and Philip the Upright, and that of Maximilian I. Contributors include: Gayle K. Brunelle, Dagmar Eichberger, Annette Finley-Croswhite, Martin Gosman, Margriet Hoogvliet, Michael Lynch, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Olaf Mörke, Jan-Dirk Müller, Rita Schlusemann, Alan Swanson, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Janet Hadley Williams.