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Bram van Leuveren : Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572-1615
This book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious (...)
Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine : European Women’s. Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political (...)
Julie Campbell : Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615
This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the (...)
Joanna Story : Charlemagne and Rome. Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne. It focuses on a remarkable inscription commemorating Pope Hadrian I who died in Rome at Christmas 795. Commissioned by Charlemagne, composed by (...)
Matthijs Lok : Europe against Revolution. Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by (...)