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Book Synopsis A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France by : Ronald Schechter
Download or read book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France written by Ronald Schechter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Astor Library by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Versailles Effect by : Mark Ledbury
Download or read book The Versailles Effect written by Mark Ledbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures. The splendour of the Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot provide a comprehensive account of the Palace of Versailles and its domains, the life within its walls, its visitors, and the art and architecture that it has inspired from the seventeenth century to the present day: from the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. However, this innovative collection will reshape-or even radically redefine-our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation). by : Astor Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation). written by Astor Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monsieur. Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550–1800 by : Jonathan Spangler
Download or read book Monsieur. Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550–1800 written by Jonathan Spangler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, this volume brings together the history of the royal spare in the monarchy of early modern France, those younger brothers of kings known simply as ‘Monsieur’. Ranging from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, this comparative study examines the frustrations of four royal princes whose proximity to their older brothers gave them vast privileges and great prestige, but also placed severe limitations on their activities and aspirations. Each chapter analyses a different aspect of the lives of François, duke of Alençon, Gaston, duke of Orléans, Philippe, duke of Orléans and Louis-Stanislas, count of Provence, starting with their birth and education, their marriages and political careers, and their search for alternative expressions of power through the patronage of the arts, architecture and learning. By comparing these four lives, a powerful image emerges of a key development in the institution of modern monarchy: the transformation of the rebellious, politically ambitious prince into the loyal defender – even in disagreement – of the Crown and of the older brother who wore it. This volume is the perfect resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of France, monarchy, early modern state building and court studies.
Book Synopsis The Fabrication of Louis XIV by : Peter Burke
Download or read book The Fabrication of Louis XIV written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. Images of Louis XIV included hundreds of oil paintings and engravings, three-hundred-odd medals struck to commemorate the major events of the reign, sculptures, and bronzes, as well as plays, ballets (in which the king himself sometimes appeared on stage), operas, odes, sermons, official newspapers and histories, fireworks, fountains, and tapestries. Drawing on an analysis of these representations as well as on surviving documentary sources, Peter Burke shows the conscious attempt to "invent" the image of the king and reveals how the supervision of the royal image was entrusted to a commitee, the so-called small academy. This book is not only a fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of the image-making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. Burke discusses the element of propaganda implicit in image-making, the manipulation of seventeenth-century media of communication (oral, visual, and textual) and their codes (literary and artistic), and the intended audience and its response. He concludes by comparing and contrasting Louis's public image with that of other rulers ranging from Augustus to contemporary American presidents.
Book Synopsis Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada by : Colin M. Coates
Download or read book Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada written by Colin M. Coates and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Louis XIV’s New France, colonial authorities attempted to reproduce French regal authority in novel ways, often by performing typical metropolitan political rituals. When these practices were transposed into the St Lawrence Valley settlements, where a small French population lived alongside a substantial Indigenous presence, they took on new meanings. The colony of Canada replicated many features of the developing French absolutist state. Yet while the king likely knew more about his colony than he did about most parts of metropolitan France, this transatlantic setting imposed new constraints on absolutist authority, from the challenges of distance to an Indigenous population that largely lived outside European norms. Political Culture in Louis XIV’s Canada examines royal power as it was represented in ritual (ceremonial entrances, Te Deums, processions), in rhetoric (political disputes over cabals and factions), and in objects (portraits, royal busts, currency, buildings, maps, and censuses). Colin Coates describes the successes and failures the French authorities experienced in exporting their political practices. He reveals how those authorities’ understandings of Indigenous political culture shaped ideas of the proper relation between rulers and the ruled. This book traces the establishment of a colonial political culture that continued to shape the lives of the French in Canada long after the Sun King’s death in 1715.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... by : George Peabody Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Society of Princes by : Jonathan Spangler
Download or read book The Society of Princes written by Jonathan Spangler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The princes étrangers were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, none more so than the princes from the Lorraine-Guise family. This book examines the Lorraine-Guise at the court of Louis XIV and their renewed power, wealth and influence after the turbulent Wars of Religion. It is a substantial contribution to scholarship in court studies and will add greatly to debates on the nature of crown-noble relations in the era of absolutism.
Book Synopsis Book Sales of 1895[-97/98] by : Temple Scott
Download or read book Book Sales of 1895[-97/98] written by Temple Scott and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne by : Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des livres imprimés
Download or read book Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne written by Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des livres imprimés and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Late Right Honourable Henry, Lord Viscount Colerane, .. Mr. Baron Clarke, the Rev. Samuel Dunster, ... , Vol. II ... To be Sold ... at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's ... on the Eleventh of November 1754, ... They Will Continue Daily Selling for Two Years ... by : T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Booksellers)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Late Right Honourable Henry, Lord Viscount Colerane, .. Mr. Baron Clarke, the Rev. Samuel Dunster, ... , Vol. II ... To be Sold ... at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's ... on the Eleventh of November 1754, ... They Will Continue Daily Selling for Two Years ... written by T. Osborne and J. Shipton (Booksellers) and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV by : Robert Wellington
Download or read book Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV written by Robert Wellington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to study the past. Yet medals are often elided from the narrative of the arts of ancient r?me France, their neglect wholly disproportionate to the cultural status that they once held. This revisionary study uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV, and in the defining monuments of his age. It looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document Louis XIV's history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand si?e.
Book Synopsis Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne by : Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimés
Download or read book Catalogue de l'histoire de la Grande-Bretagne written by Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimés and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A catalogue of the libraries of ... John Conybeare ... Thomas Gale [&c.]. Which will begin to be sold this day at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's by : Thomas Osborne
Download or read book A catalogue of the libraries of ... John Conybeare ... Thomas Gale [&c.]. Which will begin to be sold this day at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's written by Thomas Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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