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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Thalia Brero. Les baptêmes princiers: Le cérémonial dans les cours de Savoie et Bourgogne (XV^e–XVI^es). (Cahiers Lausannois d'Histoire Médiévale, number 36.) Lausanne: Université de Lausanne. 2005. Pp. 468.
Under the aegis of Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, the Cahiers lausannois d'histoire médiévale have for more than twenty-five years published much research on witchcraft and criminality, demography, attitudes of life and death, funereal rites, children and the young, local feudal lords, the history of the Vaud, and finally, on the house of Savoy. In examining the baptismal ceremonies of the dukes of Savoy, Thalia Brero now takes up the challenge of local history. Her study shows how much local history can enliven historical research.	1
Brero proposes here to extract the meaning that princely dynasties of the Renaissance assigned to ceremonies accompanying the baptism of their heirs and the reasons for the splendor that surrounded them. The first chapter presents the historical context of the baptisms under examination. The beginning of the sixteenth century was a difficult period for the duchy of Savoy, which found itself caught between the hegemonic aspirations of Francis I and Charles V. With the marriage, in 1521, of Charles II of Savoy to Beatrice of Portugal (the future sister-in-law of Charles V), the choice was made in favor of the imperial party, to the detriment of the traditional alliance with France. This couple produced nine children; only one would survive to adulthood, succeed his father, and assure the destiny of the line.	. . .

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