This book offers the first comparative overview of the faction in the most representative European courts of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Rubén González Cuerva, Ph.D. (1983), is Postdoctoral Researcher of Early Modern History at the CSIC, Madrid. He has published on the diplomacy and courts of the Habsburgs, including Baltasar de Zúñiga, una encrucijada de la Monarquía hispana (Polifemo, 2012).Alexander Koller, Prof. Dr. (1960), is deputy director of the German Historical Institute in Rome, editor of QFIAB and teaches Modern History at the University of Leipzig. Among his publications on Papal-Imperial relations is Imperator und Pontifex (Aschendorff, 2012).
