23 décembre 2021
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Eric Hassler, « Making public the structure of the court. A comparative study and potentialities of court yearbooks and of their diffusion across the Holy Roman Empire and Central Europe during the 18th century », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.15366/ldc2021.13.23.010
The yearbooks published in court almanacs can be interpreted as a new type of publication that was born in the early eighteenth century. It represented the court in a novel manner and enabled the public to comprehend the court as an institution. Particularly common in the German-speaking world (the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg lands), these publications listed all the members of court's personnel, department by department. These yearbooks represent a very important and attractive source for court studies: they not only allow a comparative and connected history based on the tables that the different courts published each year, but also a deepen study based on their symbolic and political dimension. Indeed, the almanacs constitute courts on paper form, and highlight the rationalization that this institution underwent during the Enlightenment.