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Download or read book Sunspots and the Sun King written by Ellen McClure and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediation, monarchy, and Louis XIV's attempts to legitimize his reign In order to assert his divine right, Louis XIV missed no opportunity to identify himself as God’s representative on earth. However, in Sunspots and the Sun King Ellen McClure explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to reconcile the logical and mystical aspects of divine right monarchy. McClure analyzes texts devoted to definitions of sovereignty, presents a meticulous reading of Louis XIV’s memoirs to the crown prince, and offers a novel analysis of diplomats and ambassadors as the mediators who preserved and transmitted the king’s authority. McClure asserts that these discussions, ranging from treatises to theater, expose incommensurable models of authority and representation permeating almost every aspect of seventeenth-century French culture.
Download or read book Index A History of the A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age written by Dennis Duncan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice Book and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022 So Far Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.
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Download or read book Competition in World Politics written by Daniela Russ and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The »return of great power competition« between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of »competition«? Which information and which rules enable states and other actors in world politics to »compete« with one another? Which competitive strategies do they pursue in the complex environment of modern world politics? This cutting-edge edited collection discusses these questions from a unique interdisciplinary perspective. It offers a fresh account of competition in world politics, looking beyond its military dimensions to questions of economics, technology and prestige.
Download or read book Printed Images in Early Modern Britain written by Michael Cyril William Hunter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively neglected, even by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British printed images to 1700, it offers a series of essays which demonstrate the many and varied ways in which images can better integrated into the history of the period. Including contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early-modern Britain, it repeatedly underlines how every facet of British culture in the period can be better understood with an appreciation of printed images.
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Download or read book Venetian Phoenix Paolo Sarpi and Some of His English Friends 1606 1700 written by John Leon Lievsay and published by Lawrence : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1973 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Collins Dictionary of Literary Quotations written by Meic Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of over 3,000 entertaining and illuminating quotations from the world of books.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Quotations written by and published by London ; New York : Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining collection of nearly 3,500 quotations - the essential companion to the world of the written word.
