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Book Synopsis The King's Body by : Sergio Bertelli
Download or read book The King's Body written by Sergio Bertelli and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King's Body offers a unique and up-to-date overview of a central theme in European history: the nature and meaning of the sacred rituals of kingship. Informed by the work of recent cultural anthropologists, Sergio Bertelli explores the cult of kingship, which pervaded the lives of hundreds of thousands of subjects, poor and rich, noble and cleric. His analysis takes in a wide spectrum, from the Vandal kings of Spain and the long-haired kings of France, to the beheaded kings of England and France, Charles I and Louis XVI. Bertelli explores the multiple meanings of the rites related to the king's body, from his birth (with the exhibition of his masculinity) to the crowning (a rebirth) to his death (a triumph and an apotheosis). We see how particular occasions such as entrances, processions, and banquets make sense only as they related directly to the king's body. Bertelli also singles out crowd-participatory aspects of sacred kingship, including the rites of violence connected with the interregnum (perceived as a suspension of the law) and the rites of expulsion for a tyrant's body, emphasizing the inversion of crowning rituals. First published in Italy in 1990, The King's Body has been revised and updated for English-speaking readers and expertly translated from the Italian by R. Burr Litchfield. Deftly argued and amply illustrated, this book is a perfect introduction to the cult of kingship in the West; at the same time, it illuminates for modern readers how strangely different the medieval and early modern world was from our own.
Book Synopsis The Effect of the State on the Family by : Gary Stanley Becker
Download or read book The Effect of the State on the Family written by Gary Stanley Becker and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Revolution in England in 1688 by : Sir James Mackintosh
Download or read book History of the Revolution in England in 1688 written by Sir James Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Revolution in England in 1688 by : James Mackintosh
Download or read book History of the Revolution in England in 1688 written by James Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand ISBN 13 :3385051053 Total Pages :542 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (85 download)
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Book Synopsis Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 by : Alistair Malcolm
Download or read book Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 written by Alistair Malcolm and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the perspective of his favourite (valido), don Luis Mendez de Haro, and of the other ministers who helped govern the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy. It offers a positive vision of a period that is often seen as one of failure and decline. Unlike his predecessors, Haro exercised the favour that he enjoyed in a discreet way, acting as a perfect courtier and honest broker between the king and his aristocratic subjects. Nevertheless, Alistair Malcolm also argues that the presence of a royal favourite at the head of the government of Spain amounted to a major problem. The king's delegation of his authority to a single nobleman was considered by many to have been incompatible with good kingship, and Philip IV was himself very uneasy about failing in his responsibilities as a ruler. Haro was thus in a highly insecure situation, and sought to justify his regime by organizing the management of a prestigious and expensive foreign policy. In this context, the eventual conclusion of the very honourable peace with France in 1659 is shown to have been as much the result of the independent actions of other ministers as it was of a royal favourite very reluctantly brought to the negotiating table at the Pyrenees. By conclusion, the quite sudden collapse of Spanish European hegemony after Haro's death in 1661 is represented as a delayed reaction to the repercussions of a flawed system of government.
Book Synopsis The Lives of Paintings by : Elsje van Kessel
Download or read book The Lives of Paintings written by Elsje van Kessel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs. Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. This lifelike agency is not only connected to the seemingly naturalistic style of these images – works by Titian, Giorgione and their contemporaries, illustrated here in over 150 plates. It is also brought in relation to their social-historical contexts, meticulously unravelled through archival research. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, The Lives of Paintings contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects.
Book Synopsis Storia Della Liberazione D'Italia, 1815-1870 by : E.L.H. (Carrington) Martinengo-Cesaresco
Download or read book Storia Della Liberazione D'Italia, 1815-1870 written by E.L.H. (Carrington) Martinengo-Cesaresco and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXLVI-MDCCCXLVII. by : British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Download or read book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXLVI-MDCCCXLVII. written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Popes by : Leopold von Ranke
Download or read book The History of the Popes written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The matter of miracles by : Helen Hills
Download or read book The matter of miracles written by Helen Hills and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro’s miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.
Book Synopsis The Making of a Court Society by : Rita Costa Gomes
Download or read book The Making of a Court Society written by Rita Costa Gomes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy by : Minou Schraven
Download or read book Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy written by Minou Schraven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the papal body to the construction of the funeral apparato: the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter?s. The visual and liturgical centre of this apparato was the chapelle ardente or castrum doloris: a baldachin-like structure standing over the body of the deceased, decorated with coats of arms, precious textiles and hundreds of burning candles. Drawing from printed festival books and previously unpublished sources, such as ceremonial diaries and diplomatic correspondence, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of the development of early modern funeral apparati. What was their function in funeral liturgy and early modern festival culture at large? How did the papal funeral apparati compare to those of cardinals, the Spanish and French monarchy, and the Medici court in Florence? And most importantly, how did contemporaries perceive and judge them? By the late sixteenth century, new trends in conspicuous commemoration had rendered the traditional papal funeral apparati in St Peter?s obsolete. The author shows how papal families wishing to honor their uncles according to the new standards needed to invent ceremonial opportunities from scratch, showing off dynastic resilience, while modelling the deceased?s memoria after carefully constructed ideals of post-Tridentine sainthood.
Book Synopsis The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture by : Colum Hourihane
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture written by Colum Hourihane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
Book Synopsis The Popes of Rome by : Leopold von Ranke
Download or read book The Popes of Rome written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Popes of Rome. Translated from the Last German Edition ... by : Leopold von Ranke
Download or read book History of the Popes of Rome. Translated from the Last German Edition ... written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Papacy by : Leopold von Ranke
Download or read book History of the Papacy written by Leopold von Ranke and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
