This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept and its interpretation. It illustrates the broadening of resilience to a wider context, while linking it with courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions with a strength and malleability allowing them to bounce back again and again, though resilience has rarely been used when analyzing how they functioned. Thus, different forms of resilience displayed in European courts during the middle-ages and early modern period centuries are highlighted. Providing some rarely published detail we can show different models of resilience: ranging from the survival or sovereign authority in crisis and royal response to pandemic challenges, to other forms of ability to resist threats inside or outside principalities. Resilience and Recovery will illustrate how symbolic legitimacy and effective power were strongly intertwined and served to create a distinct collective memory precisely on the theme of how to defend and protect monarchical authority. weiterlesen