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Author : Chantal Grell
Publisher : Bouvier Verlag
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Les princes et l'histoire du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle written by Chantal Grell and published by Bouvier Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hall Bjørnstad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680397X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Dream of Absolutism written by Hall Bjørnstad and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV. What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do? In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall Bjørnstad argues that the exuberance of Louis XIV’s reign was not top-down propaganda in any modern sense, but rather a dream dreamt collectively, by king, court, image-makers, and nation alike. Bjørnstad explores this dream through a sustained close analysis of a corpus of absolutist artifacts, ranging from Charles Le Brun’s famous paintings in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles via the king’s secret Mémoires to two little-known particularly extravagant verbal and textual celebrations of the king. The dream of absolutism, Bjørnstad concludes, lives at the intersection of politics and aesthetics. It is the carrier of a force that emerges as a glorious image; a participatory emotional reality that requires reality to conform to it. It is a dream, finally, that still shapes our collective political imaginary today.
Author : Lucien Bély
Publisher : Fayard
ISBN 13 : 2213664099
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)
Download or read book La société des princes written by Lucien Bély and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans les royaumes des Temps modernes, la vie d'un prince était affaire d'Etat, et l'on suivait avec passion les étapes, de sa petite enfance à ses funérailles. Son destin était inséparable de celui des autres monarques, souvent ses parents. Les souverains constituaient aussi une société fermée au sein de la chrétienté et entretenaient des relations cruciales : François Ier et Henri VIII rivalisèrent de faste au Camp du drap d'or ; Louis XIV rencontra Joseph II voyagea incognito pour conseiller Marie-Antoinette et Louis XVI. Dans ce cercle des têtes couronnées, les rapports personnels définissaient les relations internationales, car ils signifiaient la guerre lorsque les monarques profitaient des crises de succession pour renforcer leur puissance, mais ils étaient également synonymes de apis lorsque les mariages princiers favorisaient les réconciliations. Rassemblant de multiples témoignages sur les grandes dynasties, ce livre offre un tableau coloré de cette société européenne des souverains, dans laquelle l'émulation, les rivalités et les conflits n'excluaient pas des liens solides et où les femmes tenaient un rôle essentiel, puisqu'elles assuraient la continuité d'une maison et l'avenir de la monarchie. Il dévoile en particulier les règles et les lois secrètes de ce monde à part. Au fil du temps, l'humilité du prince chrétien laisse la place à une savante mise en scène de la majesté royale, puis les princes des Lumières cherchèrent à s'affranchir du carcan du cérémonial et à se rapprocher de leurs sujets. Ancien élève de l'Ecole normale supérieure, Lucien Bély est professeur d'histoire moderne à la Sorbonne. Il est l'auteur de nombreux livres, dont Espions et ambassadeurs au temps de Louis XIV (1990), Les Relations internationales en Europe, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle (1992), La France moderne (1994). Il a également dirigé le Dictionnaire de l'Ancien Régime (1996) et codirigé L'Invention de la diplomatie (1998).
Author : Mark A. Lotito
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900434795X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Reformation of Historical Thought written by Mark A. Lotito and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) and his universal history, Carion’s Chronicle (1532), which transformed the early modern understanding of the Holy Roman Empire.
Author : Ronald G. Asch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383573
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment written by Ronald G. Asch and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.
Author : Liesbeth Geevers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317147332
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe written by Liesbeth Geevers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation, underlining instead the continued importance and independence of individuals. In order to take a fresh look at the subject, this volume provides a broad discussion on the formation of dynastic identities in relationship to the lineage’s own history, other families within the social elite, and the ruling dynasty. Individual chapters consider the dynastic identity of a wide range of European aristocratic families including the CroÃs, Arenbergs and Nassaus from the Netherlands; the Guises-Lorraine of France; the Sandoval-Lerma in Spain; the Farnese in Italy; together with other lineages from Ireland, Sweden and the Austrian Habsburg monarchy. Tied in with this broad international focus, the volume addressed a variety of related themes, including the expression of ambitions and aspirations through family history; the social and cultural means employed to enhance status; the legal, religious and political attitude toward sovereigns; the role of women in the formation and reproduction of (composite) dynastic identities; and the transition of aristocratic dynasties to royal dynasties. In so doing the collection provides a platform for looking again at dynastic identity in early modern Europe, and reveals how it was a compound of political, religious, social, cultural, historical and individual attitudes.
Author : Eduard Mühle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004536744
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Slavs in the Middle Ages Between Idea and Reality written by Eduard Mühle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the history of the Slavs in the Middle Ages in a new light, this study shows how the 'Slavs' were treated as a cultural construct and as such politically instrumentalized, and describes the real structures behind the phenomenon.
Author : Xavier Gendre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Les miroirs des princes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle written by Xavier Gendre and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. S. Hamilton
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843832201
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Fourteenth Century England IV written by J. S. Hamilton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series provides a forum for the most recent research into the political, social and ecclesiastical history of the 14th century.
Author : Jean-Pascal Gay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317111133
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Jesuit Civil Wars written by Jean-Pascal Gay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order's role in combating Protestantism, reforming the Catholic Church and advising rulers during its first century has been well documented, much less is understood about its later years. Covering the generalate of Tirso González (1687-1705), this book offers a window onto Jesuit politics and theology during the late seventeenth century. González's generalate was dominated by two crises - one political, the other theological - both of which were to have important ramifications for the Jesuits and the wider Catholic world. The first of these was the confrontation between Louis XIV and the Papacy over the question of control of the church in France. González strongly and publicly supported Pope Innocent XI's primacy over the French clergy, despite widespread opposition from many French Jesuits who took a more 'Gallican' position. The second crisis revolved around González's opposition to the theory of 'Probabilism', to which the bulk of Jesuits subscribed. His publication of a book opposing a theological position that was deeply ingrained within the order, provided another fracture line that was to generate much heat. Whilst both crises were essentially matters for the Jesuits, this study demonstrates how they developed and played themselves out on a wide, international and increasingly public stage, showing how contending identities were forged from apparently narrow but intense and durable conflicts. As such, the book not only illuminates the role and theology of González, but also the tensions within late seventeenth-century Catholicism. It contends that, by the end of the century, Catholic confessional culture appears unable to resolve its contradictory relationship to the individual, which it empowers and dismisses at the same time.
Author : Robert Muchembled
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521845491
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe written by Robert Muchembled and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Cultural exchange played a central role in the elites' fashioning of self. The cultures they exchanged and often integrated with included palaces, dresses and jewellery but also gestures and dances.
Author : Chassica Kirchhoff
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650438
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Thun-Hohenstein Album written by Chassica Kirchhoff and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it. In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a complex visual language. Luxury armour was fitted precisely to a wearer's body, and its memorable details declared his status. Empty armour could evoke an owner's physical presence, prompting recollection of knightly personae, glittering pageantry, and impressive feats of arms. Its mnemonic power persisted long after the battle had ended, the trumpets had gone silent, and the dust had settled in the tournament arena. Previously believed to contain preliminary designs sketched by master armourers, the Thun-Hohenstein album is a bound collection of drawings by professional book painters depicting some of the most artistically and technologically innovative armours of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Like a paper version of the princely armories that first formed during the 1500s, the album's images offered rich sites of meaning and memory. Their organization within the codex suggests the images' significance to their compiler. At the same time, the composition and details allow the reader to trace the transmission of recognizable armours, and the memories they embodied, from the anvil to the page. This book is the first to examine the album, and the armor it depicts, in their vibrant artistic and cultural context. In five thematic chapters, it moves from case studies of these drawings to explore the album's complex intersections with the genres of martial history, material culture, and literature. It also reveals the album's participation in cultures of remembrance that carried mythic, knightly personae constructed around powerful Habsburg princes forward in time from the Middle Ages into the early modern era, from the courts of the Holy Roman Empire to emerging urban audiences.
Author : Sandra Pott
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004125612
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Berlin Refuge, 1680-1780 written by Sandra Pott and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual Huguenot Refuge is one of the most important movements in Early modern Europe. This volume provides new information about one of its centres: about Berlin, and on the extremely important role Huguenot scholars played disseminating Enlightened thought.
Author : Orest Ranum
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030431851
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Tyranny from Ancient Greece to Renaissance France written by Orest Ranum and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot examines how prominent thinkers throughout history, from ancient Greece to sixteenth-century France, have perceived tyrants and tyranny. Ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were the first to build a vocabulary for tyrants and the forms of government they corrupted. Thirteenth century analyses of tyranny by Thomas Aquinas and John of Salisbury, revived from Antiquity, were recast as short observations about what tyrants do. They claimed that tyrants govern for their own advantage, not for the people. Tyrants could be usurpers, increase taxes, and live in luxury. The list of tyrannical actions grew over time, especially in periods of turmoil and civil war, often raising the question: When can a tyrant be legitimately deposed or killed? In offering a brief biography of these political philosophers, including Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bodin, and others, along with their views on tyrannical behavior, Orest Ranum reveals how the concept of tyranny has been shaped over time, and how it still persists in political thought to this day.
Author : Richard L. Kagan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401657
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Clio and the Crown written by Richard L. Kagan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monarchs throughout the ages have commissioned official histories that cast their reigns in a favorable light for future generations. These accounts, sanctioned and supported by the ruling government, often gloss over the more controversial aspects of a king's or queen’s time on the throne. Instead, they present highly selective and positive readings of a monarch’s contribution to national identity and global affairs. In Clio and the Crown, Richard L. Kagan examines the official histories of Spanish monarchs from medieval times to the middle of the 18th century. He expertly guides readers through the different kinds of official histories commissioned: those whose primary focus was the monarch; those that centered on the Spanish kingdom as a whole; and those that celebrated Spain’s conquest of the New World. In doing so, Kagan also documents the life and work of individual court chroniclers, examines changes in the practice of official history, and highlights the political machinations that influenced the redaction of such histories. Just as world leaders today rely on fast-talking press officers to explain their sometimes questionable actions to the public, so too did the kings and queens of medieval and early modern Spain. Monarchs often went to great lengths to exert complete control over the official history of their reign, physically intimidating historians, destroying and seizing manuscripts and books, rewriting past histories, and restricting history writing to authorized persons. Still, the larger practice of history writing—as conducted by nonroyalist historians, various scholars and writers, and even church historians—provided a corrective to official histories. Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004226494
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Byzantine Religious Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice-Mary Talbot has profoundly influenced Byzantine Studies in America and Europe, focusing her scholarship upon the social context of Byzantine religious practices. As Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and as editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers, she touched the professional lives of senior and junior Byzantinists alike. This collection of twenty-five articles from scholars associated with her at various stages in her career compasses such varied disciplines as art history, social history, literature, epigraphy, numismatics and sigillography; contributions are grouped in three related sections: “Women,” “Icons and Images,” and finally “Texts, Practices, Spaces.” Illustrated with both b/w and color images, the volume is at once a varied and a coherent tribute to this extraordinary scholar. Contributors are Alexander Alexakis, Simon Bendall, Annemarie Weyl Carr, John Duffy, Stephanos Efthymiadis, Elizabeth A. Fisher, Jaroslav Folda, Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Michael Grünbart, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Angela Constantinides Hero, Michel Kaplan, Paul Magdalino, Henry Maguire, Maria Mavroudi, Stamatina McGrath, Cécile Morrisson, John Nesbitt, Arietta Papaconstantinou, Stratis Papaioannou, Manolis Patedakis, Brigitte Pitarakis, Claudia Rapp, Nancy Patterson Ševčenko, Brooke Shilling, Paul Stephenson and Denis Sullivan.
Author : Katherine Van Liere
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199594791
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Sacred History written by Katherine Van Liere and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.
