Iberian monarchies in transition

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'Felipe IV', Diego Velázquez (1656)

Bernardo J. García García, ‘Setting limits to grandeur: Preserving the Spanish monarchy in an iron century’, in Monarchy transformed: Princes and their elites in early modern western Europe, edited by Robert von Frideburg and John Morrill (2017), 127-163;

Felix Labrador Arroyo, ‘The situation of the Portuguese court and royal household under the first monarch of the House of Austria (1581-1598)’, The Court Historian 21: 1 (2016): 1-21;

Alistair Malcolm, Royal favouritism and the governing elite of the Spanish monarchy, 1640-1665 (2017), Ch. 4 (‘Government and society after Olivares, 93-116).