Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Marriage of 1679: High Ceremonies as Multifaceted Status Interactions 2. The affaire des sieges: The Anatomy of Ceremonial Crisis 3. The Battles of the Mantles: Ceremonial Gear and Status Conflict 4. To Wear or Not To Wear? Mantled Visits in the Early Eighteenth Century 5. The Duality of Service: Between Honour and Humiliation, between Primary and Secondary Functions 6. Epistolary Ceremonial: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction Conclusion Appendix I: The Royal House of Bourbon, 1643-1715 Appendix II: The Conde-Gourville Correspondence Appendix III: Train-Length and Train-Bearing in Bourbon Funerary Services at Saint-Denis and at Notre Dame, 1643-1715 Appendix IV: A Schematised Hierarchy of Free-Address Forms Bibliography Index Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Marriage of 1679: High Ceremonies as Multifaceted Status Interactions 2.

The affaire des sieges: The Anatomy of Ceremonial Crisis 3. The Battles of the Mantles: Ceremonial Gear and Status Conflict 4. To Wear or Not To Wear? Mantled Visits in the Early Eighteenth Century 5. The Duality of Service: Between Honour and Humiliation, between Primary and Secondary Functions 6. Epistolary Ceremonial: Manuscript Correspondence as Unmediated Status Interaction Conclusion Appendix I: The Royal House of Bourbon, 1643-1715 Appendix II: The Conde-Gourville Correspondence Appendix III: Train-Length and Train-Bearing in Bourbon Funerary Services at Saint-Denis and at Notre Dame, 1643-1715 Appendix IV: A Schematised Hierarchy of Free-Address Forms Bibliography Index.