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Hall Bjørnstad : The Dream of Absolutism. Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity
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 (...)
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 (...)
Charlotte Cooper-Davis : Christine de Pizan. Life, Work, Legacy
The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the booktrade, writing more than 40 works including poetry, historical and (...)
The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the booktrade, writing more than 40 works including poetry, historical and (...)
William Weber, Beverly Wilcox : Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press. Lully to Wagner
A bold application of the concept of "canonical" works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh (...)
A bold application of the concept of "canonical" works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh (...)
Zrinka Stahuljak : Les fixeurs au Moyen Âge. Histoire et littérature connectées
Depuis l’engagement occidental en Afghanistan, en Irak, puis en Syrie, le terme de « fixeur » est devenu fréquent pour désigner, quasi exclusivement, des hommes qui rendent des services multiples aux journalistes et aux armées étrangères : à la (...)
Depuis l’engagement occidental en Afghanistan, en Irak, puis en Syrie, le terme de « fixeur » est devenu fréquent pour désigner, quasi exclusivement, des hommes qui rendent des services multiples aux journalistes et aux armées étrangères : à la (...)
Harriet Stone : Crowning Glories. Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination During the Reign of Louis XIV
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV’s propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for France’s (...)
Crowning Glories integrates Louis XIV’s propaganda campaigns, the transmission of Northern art into France, and the rise of empiricism in the eighteenth century - three historical touchstones - to examine what it would have meant for France’s (...)
