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Book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth Century France

Download or read book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth Century France written by Ronald Schechter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.

Book From the Royal to the Republican Body

Download or read book From the Royal to the Republican Body written by Sara E. Melzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This compelling study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual, contribute to the state's hegemony. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.

Book Recueil des oraisons fun  bres de Louis XIV  roy de France et de Navarre   prononc  es    Paris    en quelques autres villes du royaume avec la description du mausol  e que sa Majest   Imp  riale a fait   lever    Vienne en Autriche en l honneur du m  me prince  le 17 nov  1715

Download or read book Recueil des oraisons fun bres de Louis XIV roy de France et de Navarre prononc es Paris en quelques autres villes du royaume avec la description du mausol e que sa Majest Imp riale a fait lever Vienne en Autriche en l honneur du m me prince le 17 nov 1715 written by and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les Tragiques

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  • Author : Agrippa d' Aubigné
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-12
  • ISBN : 9781314964714
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Les Tragiques written by Agrippa d' Aubigné and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books

Download or read book Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books written by J. Lewine and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recueil de Plusieurs Oraisons Fun  bres de Louis XIV  Roy de France  Etc

Download or read book Recueil de Plusieurs Oraisons Fun bres de Louis XIV Roy de France Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pope s Body

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  • Author : Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2000-07
  • ISBN : 9780226034379
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book The Pope s Body written by Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.

Book Oraison funebre de tres haut  tres puisssant  et tres excellent prince Louis XIV  surnomm   le Grand  roy de France et de Navarre

Download or read book Oraison funebre de tres haut tres puisssant et tres excellent prince Louis XIV surnomm le Grand roy de France et de Navarre written by Lafargue (M. l'abbé.) and published by . This book was released on 1715 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Almahide

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  • Author : MADELEINE DE. SCUDERY
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781385783733
  • Pages : 680 pages

Download or read book Almahide written by MADELEINE DE. SCUDERY and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Harvard University Houghton Library N029846 In fact by Madelène de Scudéry. In three parts, each of three books, but disposed in four sections each having separate pagination and register, as follows: part I; part II; part III, book 1; and part III, books 2 and 3. London: printed by J. M. for Thomas Dring, 1702. [2],225, [1];267, [1];107, [1];76p.; 2°

Book Recueil de plusieurs oraisons fun  bres de Louis XIV

Download or read book Recueil de plusieurs oraisons fun bres de Louis XIV written by and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Revolt and Revolution in Early Modern Europe written by Yves Marie Bercé and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boke Named The Gouernour

Download or read book The Boke Named The Gouernour written by Sir Thomas Elyot and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Myth and Law Among the Indo Europeans

Download or read book Myth and Law Among the Indo Europeans written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is A Result Of The Ongoing Activity Centered On Discovering And Understanding The Mythic, Religions, Social And Legal Underpinnings Of The Ancient Indo-European-Speaking Continuum In Terms Of Their Oldest Or Most Archaic Manifestations. Without Dustcover, Spine Slightly Damaged At Bottom, Ex-Libris, Usual Library Stamps And Markings, Text Absolutely Clean, Condition Good.