THE EUROPEAN WORLD Theme 3: Culture ELITE AND POPULAR CULTURE Jonathan Davies and Rosa Salzberg (Powerpoint will be on the website)

Significance ‘Of all the institutions affecting the political, religious and cultural life of early modern Europe, there was probably none more influential than the court’. [John Adamson, ‘The Making of the Ancién-Regime Court’, in John Adamson (ed.), The Princely Courts of Europe (London, 1999), p. 7]

Questions How has the historiography of courts changed? How were courts organized in early modern Europe? What were the functions of early modern courts?

Pierre Patel, Palace of Versailles, 1668

Elizabethan London

Bedchamber of William III, Hampton Court, c. 1700