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Book Synopsis Noble Strategies by : Judith J. Hurwich
Download or read book Noble Strategies written by Judith J. Hurwich and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried to investigate marriage and nonmarital sexuality in the southwest German nobility in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Along with a deeper look at women’s roles as wives, mothers, and concubines, Noble Strategies shines a light on the intimate lives of the early modern German elite.
Book Synopsis Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 by : Grace E. Coolidge
Download or read book Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 written by Grace E. Coolidge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children. This flexibility and creativity in their sexual lives enabled members of the nobility to repair, strengthen, and maintain their otherwise fragile concept of dynasty and lineage, using illegitimate children and their mothers to successfully project the noble dynasty into the future—even in an age of rampant infant mortality that contributed to the frequent absence of male heirs. While benefiting the nobility as a whole, the presence of illegitimate children could also be disruptive to the inheritance process, and the entire system privileged noblemen and their aims and goals over the lives of women and children. This book enriches our understanding of the complex households and families of the Spanish nobility, challenging traditional images of a strict patriarchal system by uncovering the hidden lives that made that system function.
Book Synopsis Legitimate Daughter: Encounter Devil Prince by : Zi Yeyuni
Download or read book Legitimate Daughter: Encounter Devil Prince written by Zi Yeyuni and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day of the wedding, An Lingge was poisoned to death by her own little sister. Until the reappearance of such a fortuitous encounter, her hard and cold heart had cracked. The first time they met, she had saved him but he had treated her like a pair of lovebirds. The second time, he had helped her get away from it, and after that, he had met Qingcheng once again, and from then on, he would be wrong for life ...
Book Synopsis Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice by : Jana Byars
Download or read book Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice written by Jana Byars and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.
Book Synopsis Venice Reconsidered by : John Jeffries Martin
Download or read book Venice Reconsidered written by John Jeffries Martin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is “likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography” (The Historical Journal). Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice’s politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.
Download or read book Mozart written by Maynard Solomon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for biography, this thoroughly researched study of the Classical composer deeply examines his life and work. Considered one of the most important music biographies ever written, esteemed biographer Maynard Solomon draws on a half-century of new information to provide an in-depth account of Mozart’s family life, his passions, and his personality.
Book Synopsis Nuns Without Cloister by : Marguerite Vacher
Download or read book Nuns Without Cloister written by Marguerite Vacher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages, hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien rZgime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the congregation's theoretical, prescriptive documents with evidence about the actual life of these communities in southern France, leads to the question of whether and to what degree succeeding generations grasped the original inspiration.
Book Synopsis Genealogy of the Jaquett Family by : Edwin Jaquett Sellers
Download or read book Genealogy of the Jaquett Family written by Edwin Jaquett Sellers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Thurburns by : F. A. V. Thurburn
Download or read book The Thurburns written by F. A. V. Thurburn and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and genealogical data about the Thurburn family of Scotland between 1016 A.D. and 1864 A.D.
Book Synopsis The Last Stuart Queen: Louise, Countess of Albany by : Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan
Download or read book The Last Stuart Queen: Louise, Countess of Albany written by Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Standard Languages and Language Standards by : Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Download or read book Standard Languages and Language Standards written by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines, with a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and perceptions of value, processes of establishing a standard and practices and ideologies of standardization, over the long history of the Greek language, from the age of Homer to the present day. With a wide range of topics, from contested educational initiatives to competing understandings of the Greek language, from the Hellenistic koine to cyber-Greek, the volume provides a series of informed overviews and snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of Greek and explore the nature of language standardization itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with interests in the role of language in the construction of identities.
Book Synopsis Invincible and Righteous Outlaw by : Minsoo Kang
Download or read book Invincible and Righteous Outlaw written by Minsoo Kang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important and popular premodern Korean novels, The Story of Hong Gildong is a fast-paced adventure story about the illegitimate son of a nobleman who becomes the leader of a band of honest outlaws who take from the rich and punish the corrupt. Despite the importance of the work to Korean culture—it is often described as the story of the Korean Robin Hood—studies of the novel have been hindered by a number of myths, namely that it was authored in the early sixteenth century by statesman Heo Gyun, who wrote it not only in protest of Joseon-dynasty laws on the rights of illegitimate children, but also as a manifesto of his own radical political ideas. In Invincible and Righteous Outlaw, the first book-length study of the novel in English, Minsoo Kang reveals that The Story of Hong Gildong was most likely written by an anonymous mid-nineteenth-century writer whose primary concern was appealing to the increasing number of readers in the late Joseon looking to be entertained and that the myth of Heo’s authorship can be traced to the writing of literary scholar Kim Taejun in the 1930s. Following a detailed examination of the history and literary significance of the novel—including analysis based on Eric Hobsbawm’s work on the universal figure of the noble robber—Kang surveys the many afterlives of the hero Hong Gildong, who throughout the decades has appeared and reappeared in countless revisionist novels, films, television dramas, and comics, even inspiring the creation of a Hong Gildong theme park in South Korea. He shows how the story was altered, distorted, and reinvigorated during and after the Japanese colonial period in both the North and the South for political, social, and literary purposes. While demonstrating the continued relevance of the novel and its hero in Korean culture up to the present day, Kang makes it clear that such narratives have served mostly to distance readers from a better understanding of this classic work.
Book Synopsis Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice by : Alexander Cowan
Download or read book Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice written by Alexander Cowan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, marriage has been used as a method of creating and strengthening bonds between elites and the societies over which they ruled. Nowhere is this more apparent than in early modern Venice, where members of the patriciate looked to marital alliances with outsider brides to help maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid society. This book explores the parameters of upward social mobility, contemporary evaluations of social status and moral behaviour, and the place of marriage and concubinage within patrician society. Drawing heavily on the records of the Avogaria di Comun, which had the task of examining the social backgrounds and moral reputations of women from outside the patriciate who wished to marry patricians, this study provides a fascinating reconstruction of Venetian society as it was seen by individuals at every level.
Download or read book Mozart written by Otto Erich Deutsch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966-06-01 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stanford University Press classic.
Book Synopsis The International Emblem by : Simon McKeown
Download or read book The International Emblem written by Simon McKeown and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emblem, a Renaissance literary genre which combined text and image, conveyed erudition, admonishment, propaganda, and piety with unparalleled concision and economy. It arose out of humanist circles in the early sixteenth century and quickly became established as a staple tool in religious, political, and social discourses across the major European languages. In recent years the emblem has come to be regarded by scholars working in all areas of the humanities and cultural studies as an interdisciplinary matrix of extraordinary utility in gaining insights into the mentalities and preoccupations of the early modern era. Within its apparently slender frame, the emblem embraces questions of foremost philological, semiotic, and iconographical importance, and encompasses ideas and assumptions of exceedingly far range and reach. This collection of essays attests to the pervasiveness of the emblem, both within Renaissance and Baroque Europe, and in those parts of the wider world where European influence came to bear. It seeks to follow the development of the emblem from its beginnings in various forms of bimedial artefact, from early illustrated books and hieroglyphs, to medals and ancient coins; we then witness its deployment as a propagandistic tool in the temporal and confessional disputes of Europe. Thereafter, the emblem appears in non-European contexts, emerging as a place of cultural exchange as it became assimilated within indigenous visual traditions. The latter parts of the book concentrate on the often subliminal role emblems played in diverse literary texts, as well as their ongoing vitality in praxis or in the burgeoning area of emblem scholarship within early modern studies.
Download or read book The London Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
