Beschreibung:
Thomas Biskup has been teaching and researching Early Modern History at Oxford, Wolfenbuttel, Princeton, and Hull. His main fields of research are the political culture of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Europe, and the intersection of politics and science in the Atlantic world.
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. Covering a wide geographical scope, the book's contributions discuss patronage relations, consider the court as an audience, and analyse the role of Enlightenment writers for royal image-making and reform policies.