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Préface
A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.

Auteur
John Adamson is a Fellow of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge. His books include The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I (2007), and two edited collections, The Princely Courts of Europe (1999); and The English Civil War: Conflict and Contexts (2009). He has been a Visiting Fellow at Yale University and at the University of California, Los Angeles, He is a regular reviewer for the London Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, the Literary Review, and The Times Literary Supplement.

Résumé
A portrait of the court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.