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Author : Joseph Calmette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Burgundy written by Joseph Calmette and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Calmette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Burgundy written by Joseph Calmette and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Calmette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Burgundy written by Joseph Calmette and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Boulton
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047418492
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Ideology of Burgundy written by Jonathan Boulton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of eight essays on the ideology of Burgundy, dealing with the body of ideas, images, institutions and narrative fictions produced for the Valois dukes of Burgundy to create and maintain their incipient domanial state (1364-1560s).
Author : James E. Wilson (Geologist)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520219366
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Terroir written by James E. Wilson (Geologist) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French word terroir is used to describe all the ecological factors that make a particular type of wine special to the region of its origin. James E. Wilson uses his training as a geologist and his years of research in the wine regions of France to fully examine the concept of terroir. The result combines natural history, social history, and scientific study, making this a unique book that all wine connoisseurs and professionals will want close at hand. In Part One Wilson introduces the full range of environmental factors that together form terroir. He explains France's geological foundation; its soil, considered the "soul" of a vineyard; the various climates and microclimates; the vines, their history and how each type has evolved; and the role that humans--from ancient monks to modern enologists--have played in viticulture. Part Two examines the history and habitat of each of France's major wine regions. Wilson explores the question of why one site yields great wines while an adjacent site yields wines of lesser quality. He also looks at cultural influences such as migration and trade and at the adaptations made by centuries of vignerons to produce distinctive wine styles. Wilson skillfully presents both technical information and personal anecdotes, and the book's photographs, maps, and geologic renderings are extremely helpful. The appendices contain a glossary and information on the labeling of French wines. With a wealth of information explained in clear English, Wilson's book enables wine readers to understand and appreciate the mystique of terroir. The French word terroir is used to describe all the ecological factors that make a particular type of wine special to the region of its origin. James E. Wilson uses his training as a geologist and his years of research in the wine regions of France to fully examine the concept of terroir. The result combines natural history, social history, and scientific study, making this a unique book that all wine connoisseurs and professionals will want close at hand. In Part One Wilson introduces the full range of environmental factors that together form terroir. He explains France's geological foundation; its soil, considered the "soul" of a vineyard; the various climates and microclimates; the vines, their history and how each type has evolved; and the role that humans--from ancient monks to modern enologists--have played in viticulture. Part Two examines the history and habitat of each of France's major wine regions. Wilson explores the question of why one site yields great wines while an adjacent site yields wines of lesser quality. He also looks at cultural influences such as migration and trade and at the adaptations made by centuries of vignerons to produce distinctive wine styles. Wilson skillfully presents both technical information and personal anecdotes, and the book's photographs, maps, and geologic renderings are extremely helpful. The appendices contain a glossary and information on the labeling of French wines. With a wealth of information explained in clear English, Wilson's book enables wine readers to understand and appreciate the mystique of terroir.
Author : WM. E. Baumgaertner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1698706189
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Fifteenth Century England a Comprehensive Chronology written by WM. E. Baumgaertner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume (of what will likely be four volumes) of a comprehensive chronological history of fifteenth century England. It begins in 1397, a necessary prelude to the rise of Henry IV, and carries through to 1509 and the death of Henry VII. The series includes inter-related chronologies of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Burgundy and Brittany. Volume I covers from 1397 and the last few years of the reign of Richard II, through the entire reigns of Henry IV and Henry V, and ends a few months into the reign of Henry VI (1422). In the process, it covers wars, usurpations, land and naval battles, parliaments and great council meetings, and the lives and deaths of many hundreds of prominent English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, Burgundian and Breton persons.
Author : Philip George Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631072
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age written by Philip George Hill and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Author : Graeme Small
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780861932375
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy written by Graeme Small and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few texts offer as many insights into the history of Valois Burgundy as the work of George Chastelain (c.1414-1475), official chronicler to the dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. Chastelain, a trusted courtier, closely observed his masters' authority in the many dominions they ruled in the Low Countries and France, and the role they played in the political life of neighbouring kingdoms and principalities and in Christendom as a whole. This is the first historical study of Chastelain in over half a century. An account of his life and career is followed by a study of the chronicle, Chastelain's interpretation within it of ducal actions and aspirations, and the role it played in the historical culture of the governing classes in the Netherlands after the death of the last duke in 1477. Overall, Dr Small offers a complete reappraisal of the political ambitions of the ducal elite, particularly with regard to the supposed evolution of the ducal dominions into a `Burgundian state' quite distinct from the Kingdom of France. Dr GRAEME SMALL is lecturer in medieval history, University of Glasgow.
Author : DK Travel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465454837
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide France written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France will lead you straight to the best attractions the country has to offer. Discover France region-by-region, from Champagne in the north to the sun-blessed corner of Provence and the Côte d'Azur. Stand in awe of the châteaux of the Loire, lie on the beautiful beaches of Corsica, and climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city map of Paris includes a street finder index for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France truly shows you this country as no one else can.
Author : Katherine Spenley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 075669115X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: France written by Katherine Spenley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this book have been divided into 16 color-coded regions that reflect the diversity of France. These are based on the country's historical regions that were often defined by their geography and landscape as much as by their influence and power. Each has developed its own special flavor; its own architecture, cuisine, customs, music, dress, dialect and even language. The pages of the Eyewitness Travel Guide will give a taste of these areas and show you what there is to see and do. Annually revised and updated with beautiful new full-color photos, illustrations, and maps, this guide includes information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Consistently chosen over the competition in national consumer market research. The best keeps getting better!
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756660564
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)
Download or read book France written by Roger Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, "Eyewitness Travel Guide: France" paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from ski towns to beaches to wine vineyards.
Author : Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Prince Henry the Navigator written by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter G. Bietenholz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085771
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Contemporaries of Erasmus written by Peter G. Bietenholz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.
Author : James B. Minahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567508588
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book One Europe, Many Nations written by James B. Minahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-07-30 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominating world politics since 1945, the Cold War created a fragile peace while suppressing national groups in the Cold War's most dangerous theater—Europe. Today, with the collapse of Communism, the European Continent is again overshadowed by the specter of radical nationalism, as it was at the beginning of the century. Focusing on the many possible conflicts that dot the European landscape, this book is the first to address the Europeans as distinct national groups, not as nation-states and national minorities. It is an essential guide to the national groups populating the so-called Old World-groups that continue to dominate world headlines and present the world community with some of its most intractable conflicts. While other recent reference books on Europe approach the subject of nations and nationalism from the perspective of the European Union and the nation-state, this book addresses the post-Cold War nationalist resurgence by focusing on the most basic element of any nationalism—the nation. It includes entries on nearly 150 groups, surveying these groups from the earliest period of their national histories to the dawn of the 21st century. In short essays highlighting the political, social, economic, and historical evolution of peoples claiming a distinct identity in an increasingly integrated continent, the book provides both up-to-date information and historical background on the European national groups that are currently making the news and those that will produce future headlines.
Author : Shirley Neilsen Blum
Publisher : WW Norton
ISBN 13 : 0789260506
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The New Art of the Fifteenth Century: Faith and Art in Florence and The Netherlands written by Shirley Neilsen Blum and published by WW Norton. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new. Adam and Eve are driven from the Garden of Eden into a rocky landscape, their naked bodies lit by a cold sun, their gestures and expressions a study in shame and anguish. A serious man, well attired, kneels in prayer before the Virgin and Child, close enough to touch them almost, his furrowed brow setting off the saintly perfection of their features. In fifteenth-century Florence and Flanders, painters were using an arsenal of new techniques—including perspective, anatomy, and the accurate treatment of light and shade—to present traditional religious subjects with an unprecedented immediacy and emotional power. Their art was the product of a shared Christian culture, and their patrons included not only nobles and churchmen but also the middle classes of these thriving commercial centers. Shirley Neilsen Blum offers a new synthesis of this remarkable period in Western art—between the refinements of the Gothic and the classicism of the High Renaissance—when the mystical was made to seem real. In the first part of her text, Blum traces the emergence of a new naturalism in the sculpture of Claus Sluter and Donatello, and then in the painting of Van Eyck and Masaccio. In the second part, she compares scenes from the Infancy and Passion of Christ as rendered by artists from North and South. Exploring both the images themselves and the theological concepts that lie behind them, she re-creates, as far as possible, the experience of the contemporary fifteenth-century viewer. Abundantly illustrated with color plates of masterworks by Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Rogier van der Weyden, and others, this thought-provoking volume will appeal equally to general readers and students of art history.
Author : Barbara von Barghahn
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837049
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Jan van Eyck and Portugal's 'Illustrious Generation' written by Barbara von Barghahn and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Jan Van Eyck's patronage by the Crown of Portugal and his role as diplomat-painter for the Duchy of Burgundy following his first voyage to Lisbon in 1428-1429, when he painted two portraits of Infanta Isabella, who became the third wife of Philip the Good in 1430. New portrait identifications are provided for the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and its iconographical prototype, the lost Fountain of Life. These altarpieces are analysed with regard to King Joao I's conquest of Ceuta, achieved by his sons, who were hailed as an "illustrious generation." Strong family ties between the dynastic houses of Avis and Lancaster explain Lusitania's sustained fascination with Arthurian lore and the Grail quest. Several chapters of this book are overlaid with a chivalric veneer. A second "secret mission" to Portugal in 1437 by Jan van Eyck is postulated and this diplomatic visit is related to Prince Henry the Navigator's expedition to Tangier and King Duarte's attempts to forge an alliance with Alfonso V of Aragon. Late Eyckian commissions are reviewed in the light of this ill-fated crusade and additional new portraits are identified. The most significant artist of Renaissance Flanders appears to have been patronized as much by the House of Avis as by the Duchy of Burgundy. Barbara von Barghahn is Professor of Art History at George Washington University and a specialist in the art history of Portugal, Spain, and their colonial dominions, as well as Flanders. In 1993, she was conferred O Grao Comendador in the Portuguese Order of Prince Henry the Navigator. She has spent nearly a decade completing research about Jan van Eyck's diplomatic visits to the Iberian Peninsula.
Author : Ruth Morse
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859914598
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)
Download or read book The Medieval Medea written by Ruth Morse and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging study of the myth of Medea, concentrating on but not exclusively confined to its medieval incarnation.
