Illustrations and Maps
Abbreviations
Dukes of Savoy, 1343–1730
Introduction
The Sabaudian Lands and Sabaudian Studies....Matthew Vester
1 Sabaudian Studies
The Historiographic Context....Matthew Vester
Policies and Institutions
2 The Practice of Diplomacy at the Court of Amadeus VIII of Savoy (1391–1440)....Eva Pibiri, trans. Matthew Vester
3 Justice and Politics
The Conseil de Genevois during the Early Sixteenth Century....Laurent Perrillat
4 From Piedmont to Tenochtitlan
Social Conflict and Mercurino di Gattinara’s Imperial Policies in New Spain....Rebecca Boone
5 Philibert-Albert Bailly, or The Origins of Valdostano Particularism....Alessandro Celi
Representing the Dynasty
6 Recollecting Court Festivals
Ceremonial Accounts in Sixteenth-Century Savoy....Thalia Brero
7 Charles Emanuel I’s Foreign Policy
The Duke of Savoy’s French Voyage (1599–1600)....Stéphane Gal and Preston Perluss
8 The Model of the Holy Savoyard Prince
A Religious Discourse for Political Ends....Michel Merle, trans. Matthew Vester
9 The House of Savoy and the Theatre of the World
Performances of Sovereignty in Early Modern Rome....Toby Osborne
10 The Prolonged Minority of Charles Emanuel II
Territorial Practices....Kristine Kolrud
11 Fiscality and Territory
Ivrea and Piedmont between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries....Guido Alfani
12 Reshaping Local Public Space
Religion and Politics in the Marquisate of Saluzzo between the Reformation and Counter-Reformation....Marco Battistoni
13 Composite Politics in the Vallee d’Aoste....Matthew Vester
14 Sabaudian Spaces and Territories
Piedmont as a Composite State (Ecclesiastical Enclaves, Fiefs, Boundaries)....Blythe Alice Raviola
Postscript
In Memory of Robert Oresko....Geoffrey Symcox, Matthew Vester, Toby Osborne, and Blythe Alice Raviola
Index