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Introduction : Peter Burke and the history of cultural history / Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo and Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The ecotype, or a modest proposal to reconnect cultural and social history / David Hopkin -- Rituals of the viaticum : dynasty and community in Habsburg Madrid / María José del Río Barredo -- Monks of honour : the Knights of Malta and criminal behaviour in early modern Rome / Carmel Cassar -- The reception of Spain and its values in Habsburg Naples : a reassessment / Gabriel Guarino -- Venemous words and political poisons : language(s) of exclusion in early modern France / Silje Normand -- War and polemics in early modern Europe / Pärtel Piirimäe -- Colbert, Louis XIV and the Golden notebooks : what a king needs to know to rule / Jacob Soll -- Confessional cultures and sacred space : towards a history of political communication in early modern Switzerland / Daniela Hacke -- Saints as cultural history / Thomas Worcester -- How to look like a counter-reformation saint / Helen Hills -- Against propaganda : the juxtaposition of images in early modern France. Reflections on the reign of Louis XII (1498-1515) / Nicole Hochner -- A gymnosophist at Versailles : the geography of knowledge in the iconography of Louis XIV / Nicholas Dew -- Elegant Dutch? The reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano in seventeenth-century Netherlands / Herman Roodenburg -- Dancing savages : stereotypes and cultural encounters across the Atlantic in the age of European expansion / Alessandro Arcangeli -- Representation in practice : the myth of Venice and the British protectorate in the Ionian Islands (1801-1864) / Maria Fusaro -- Harping on the past : translating antiquarian learning into popular culture in early nineteenth-century Ireland / Clare O'Halloran -- Peter Burke and Brazil : a mutual discovery / Ángel Gurría-Quintana -- Afterword : Exploring cultural history : a response / Peter Burke