Imperial Princes Research Articles

Disorder in the Ranks: A Political Analysis of Tang Court Assemblies

This article describes the range of contexts in which Tang dynasty officials formally paraded, usually but not always, before the emperor and within the palace precincts. Although these parades were soon politically disempowered, they register the often highly disruptive changes in the power structure of the central administration of the seventh and eighth centuries. The positions of imperial princes and the involvement of high court women in assemblies were both controversial in the first half of the dynasty. From the middle of the eighth century, the good order of the assemblies was further threatened by the intrusion of court eunuchs and by a fundamental shift in the structure of power. The original, statutory hierarchy of posts was subverted by a system of concurrent tenures and of increasingly powerful and independent provincial commissioners. The protocols for court assemblies only slowly recognized that these men had a place in court parades.

The Colloquial Material of Kitanoin Omuro Shukaku "守覚" Priest Imperial Prince : with Special Reference to the Language with the Mixture of Kanji and Kana in Yaketsusho "野決鈔" owned by Zuishin-in Temple

The Colloquial Material of Kitanoin Omuro Shukaku "守覚" Priest Imperial Prince : with Special Reference to the Language with the Mixture of Kanji and Kana in Yaketsusho "野決鈔" owned by Zuishin-in Temple

The German Princes' Responses to the Peasants' Revolt of 1525

The German Peasants' Revolt of 1525 represented an unprecedented challenge to the princes and other petty political rulers of the areas involved. While localized uprisings had occurred with increasing frequency in the decades prior to the 1525 revolt and an uneasy awareness of growing levels of peasant discontent was widespread among most rulers of southern and central German lands, the extent of the major rebellion that developed in early 1525 took everyone by surprise. No one was prepared to respond, either militarily or through more peaceful means. Even the Swabian League, the peacekeeping alliance of Imperial princes, prelates, nobility, and cities that eventually assumed primary responsibility for suppressing the revolt, did little to mobilize its resources for almost six months after the first appeals for help from its members against disobedient subjects reached it. When the League did mobilize, its decision created further problems for League members, since most sent their required contingents to the League's forces only to discover that they needed the troops badly themselves once the revolt spread to their own lands. Since the Council of the Swabian League adamantly refused to return any members' troops because this would hinder the League's own ability to suppress the peasant disorders, many members found themselves virtually defenseless against the rebels.

The Personality and Health of King Henry VIII (1491–1547)

The projection of Henry VIII in the first half of his reign, which began in 1509, is of a magnificent and accomplished 'imperial prince', the possessor of superb physical health. In 1528, when aged 37, he showed a marked change in personality due, it is here argued, to depressive illness, from which he recovered by the mid-1530s. Such ill health has not been recognized previously and it engenders a need for a reassessment of his character and actions during these years of illness. He did not suffer from syphilis and the well-known leg ulcers were less incapacitating than has been described in the past. This truly enormous and overweight man was 55 years old when he died in 1547 in chronic heart failure.

八条宮智仁親王サロンの形成と展開にみる固有性と時代性

八条宮智仁親王サロンの形成と展開にみる固有性と時代性

八条宮智仁親王サロンの主要な活動と構成員

八条宮智仁親王サロンの主要な活動と構成員

Imperial princes and court politics in earlyShôwaJapan

Imperial princes and court politics in early<i>Shôwa</i>Japan

On Advice to the Imperial Prince

On Advice to the Imperial Prince

Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China: Selections From The "History of the Former Han"

Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D. The narrative is rich in detail and characterized by purity and economy of style. Covering the period from 206 B.C. to A.D. 23, the work consists of annals, chronological tables, treatises, and biographies, the last of which often include excepts from writings by the subjects of the biographies. Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial princes, generals, officials, and some lesser figures: a court jester, wandering knights, court ladies, and concubines. All the chapters have been selected for their literary interest and their influence on Chinese literature and culture.

Habsburg Policy and the Austrian War of 1809

In April 1809—less than four years after Austerlitz—Austria declared war on France and entered the field as the champion of a vanquished German Empire. In their analyses of the Habsburg bid to restore the old order in the Germanies, historians have stressed certain internal developments within the Austrian Empire that made war possible: a revitalized army, a strong feeling of German nationalism, an embittered émigré lobby, and a powerful war party. This article explores the importance of the factions within the imperial family in relation to these events and points up an irony in the Austrian decision. For while the emperor Francis viewed the war as a final effort to save the dynasty, Count Philipp Stadion, his chief minister and leader of the war party, capitalized on the divergent points of view within the family to attain his own ends. His principal concern was to restore the old political order, to reverse the terms of the Treaty of Pressburg (1805), and to reconstruct the Holy Roman Empire in Germany. By skillful manipulation of ideology and dynastic ambition, he won most of the imperial princes to his side. They, in turn, persuaded the emperor to commit himself to a foreign policy that jeopardized his monarchy for the sake of a war whose diplomatic goals interested him scarcely at all.

Japanese Learned Societies

Japanese Learned Societies