Cercetări recente cu privire la Curţile monarhice în epoca modernă timpurie: Jeroen Duindam
Recent Scholarship regarding the Monarchic Courts in the Early Modern Era: Jeroen Duindam

Summary/Abstract: This study recreates from a historiographical perspective the new scholarly landscape surfacing in the posterity of Norbert Elias’s studies, in critical detachment from his work, in particular the study of (Western) European and Asian monarchic courts, but also the role played by dynasties in organizing and building modern states. Already an author of a consistent historiographical work, the Dutch historian of the pre-modern phenomenon, advances in his work new analytic and interpretative perspectives into today’s climate where, under the impact of globalization, history and the social sciences are seeking and advancing new interpretation grids. The plea of the Dutch historian regarding the writing of the history of modern era monarchic courts evidences the interest in interdisciplinary research, summoning sociology, art history, historical anthropology, and historical politology, bringing forth significant methodological and topical suggestions. Similarly, the historian developed an affinity for global and intercultural history, an approach that tends to widen the scholarly horizon of historiography and that of the problematic of history. His proposal is based on the reviving of the comparative method and on the analysis and interpretation of primary sources in general, but especially on archival sources, not very much employed by scholars until now.

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