Royal jewels
Subtitle: from Charlemagne to the Romanovs
By: edited by Diana Scarisbrick, Christophe Vachaudez, and Jan Walgrave.
Contributors: Scarisbrick, Diana.; Vachaudez, Christophe.; Walgrave, Jan.
Publisher: Vendome Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780865651937
Subjects: Crown jewels -- Europe
Notes: Previous title: Brilliant Europe.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cleopatra's pearl: jewelry and the European courts; title: Middle Ages; title: Renaissance: between uniformity and internationalism; title: Seventeenth century: the reign of the diamond; title: Jewelry of absolutism; title: Empire and Romanticism: Napoleon and George IV; title: European monarchies in splendor.