Chapter 22 - Mikolaj Getka-Kenig
In Pursuit of Social Allies: Royal Residences and Political Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1804-1830
This essay deals with the role of residences in monarchical propaganda and self-fashioning in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. It was the age of the revival of monarchy after the French Revolution, starting with its return in France in 1804, and declining in the aftermath of the July Revolution in 1830. The revival was contingent with the readiness of the reaffirmed monarchical regimes to confront the rise of the political ambitions of the expanding middle class that had means and determination to engage in public life. This essay argues that in those circumstances, the Old Regime pan-European idea of royal residence, focused on the glorification of monarchs and emphasising their utmost superiority over the people, was an ambiguous legacy for their post-Revolutionary successors. Although palatial edifices were a well-established expression of royal standing, they also contributed to the symbolic distance between royal majesty and the middle class public. Those European monarchs who found themselves in need of supporting their legitimacy and looked for social allies in the aftermath of the French Revolution, provided their publicly seen seats with notable signs of their close proximity to the common but politically-aspiring people who needed to be reckoned with.
By Mikolaj Getka-Kenig
Mikolaj Getka-Kenig
Mikolaj Getka-Kenig received his PhD in modern history from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His area of research is the socio-cultural history of art and architecture in Poland and Europe, ca. 1800. He recently published a book on early 19th century Polish public memorials and their engagement with the political discourse of merit.
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