Download or read book Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth century France written by Malcolm Quainton and published by Durham Modern Languages. This book was released on 2008 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text in English with some contributions in French.
Download or read book Politics and Politiques in Sixteenth Century France written by Emma Claussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.
Download or read book The Identities of Catherine de Medici written by Susan Broomhall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Download or read book Art that all Arts do Approve Manifestations of the Dance Impulse in High Renaissance Culture written by Richard Ralph and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Dance Research is in honour of Margaret McGowan, the doyenne of British dance historians. The theme is dance as an over-arching and stimulating agent, contributing to cultural and intellectual life during the early modern period in ways that were broader and more profound in their influence than is often recognised.
Download or read book Dance Spectacle and the Body Politick 1250 1750 written by Jennifer Nevile and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the Baroque
Download or read book Death and Tenses written by Neil Kenny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, annoyance, even distress that can be caused by the 'wrong' tense suggests that more may be at stake—our very relation to the dead. This book, the first to test that hypothesis, investigates how tenses were used in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France (especially in French but also in Latin) to refer to dead friends, lovers, family members, enemies, colleagues, writers, officials, kings and queens of recent times, but also to those who had died long before, whether Christ, the saints, or the ancient Greeks and Romans who posthumously filled the minds of Renaissance humanists. Did tenses refer to the dead in ways that contributed to granting them differing degrees of presence (and absence)? Did tenses communicate dimensions of posthumous presence (and absence) that partly eluded more concept-based affirmations? The investigation ranges from funerary and devotional writing to Eucharistic theology, from poetry to humanist paratexts, from Rabelais's prose fiction to Montaigne's Essais. Primarily a work of literary and cultural history, it also draws on early modern grammatical thought and on modern linguistics (with its concept of aspect and its questioning of 'tense'), while arguing that neither can fully explain the phenomena studied. The book briefly compares early modern usage with tendencies in modern French and English in the West, asking whether changes in belief about posthumous survival have been accompanied by changes in tense-use.
Download or read book The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion written by Gregory P. Haake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it.
Download or read book Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context 1572 1615 written by Bram van Leuveren and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.
Download or read book Terrorism Before the Letter written by Robert Appelbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrorism is as old as ancient history. Whenever a society has developed to the point where it is governed as a political entity, it has made itself vulnerable to that form of violence we now call terrorism---violence that sends a message with the power of changing power. This book focuses on England, Scotland, and France in the period between 1559 and 1642, when over twenty-seven major incidents of terrorist violence occurred, and literally hundreds of texts tried to come to terms with what that violence meant, even in a time before the word 'terrorism' had been invented. Authors discussed at length in this study include the playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Robert Garnier, and Pierre Corneille; political writers George Buchanan, Gabriel Naudé, and the anonymous author of Vindicae contra tyrannos; the poets Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Pierre de Ronsard, Guillaume Du Bartas, and Agrippa d'Aubigné; and religious writers like the Catholic priests Jean Boucher and John Gerard and the Protestant minister Richard Rogers. Looming over the imaginations of early modern writers were the assassinations of princes and such notorious episodes as the Saint Bartholomew Massacre and the abortive Gunpowder Plot. This book documents how writers developed a 'mythography' of terrorism to make sense of the violence, and how political agents themselves appropriated the mythography to bring about major social and religious change."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Metaphor and Discourse written by A. Musolff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.
Download or read book Dynastic Marriages 1612 1615 written by Margaret M. McGowan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons - in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. With contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, this volume provides an all-round view of the sequence of festivals and events surrounding the dynastic marriages which were agreed upon in 1612 but not celebrated until 1615 owing to the constant interruption of festivities by protestant uprisings. The occasion inspired an extraordinary range of records from exchanges of political pamphlets, descriptions of festivities, visual materials, the music of songs and ballets, and the impressions of witnesses and participants. The study of these remarkable sources shows how a team of scholars from diverse disciplines can bring into focus again the creative genius of artists: painters, architects and costume designers, musicians and poets, experts in equestrianism, in pyrotechnics, and in the use of symbolic languages. Their artistic efforts were staged against a background of intense political diplomacy and continuing civil strife; and yet, the determination of Marie de Médicis and her advisers and of the Duke of Lerma brought to a triumphant conclusion negotiations and spectacular commemorations whose legacy was to inform festival art throughout European courts for decades. In addition to printed and manuscript sources, the volume identifies ways of giving future researchers access to festival texts and studies through digitization, making the book both an in-depth analysis of a particular occasion and a blueprint for future engagement with digital festival resources.
Download or read book Memory and Community in Sixteenth century France written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and Politiques in Sixteenth Century France written by Emma Claussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.
Download or read book Artisans of Glory written by Orest Ranum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own glory. Through studying the careers of these men, the author demonstrates how rhetorical, ideological, and social beliefs determined the way history was written. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Syphilis written by Deborah N. Losse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France, Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance writing and reflected more than just the rapid spread of this new and poorly understood disease. Losse argues that early modern writers also connected syphilis with the wars of religion in sixteenth-century France. These writers, from reform-minded humanists to Protestant poets and Catholic polemicists, entered the debate from all sides by appropriating the disease as a metaphor for weakening French social institutions. Catholics and Protestants alike leveled the charge of paillardise (lechery) at one another. Losse demonstrates how they adopted the language of disease to attack each other's politics, connecting diseased bodies with diseased doctrine. Losse provides close readings of a range of genres, moving between polemical poetry, satirical narratives, dialogical colloquies, travel literature, and the personal essay. With chapters featuring Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Lâery, and Agrippa d'Aubigne, this study compares literary descriptions of syphilis with medical descriptions. In the first full-length study of Renaissance writers' engagement with syphilis, Deborah Losse charts a history from the most vehement rhetoric of the pox to a tenuous resolution of France's conflicts, when both sides called for a return to order"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Anti Italianism in Sixteenth century France written by Henry Heller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also discusses the important role of anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-7, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.".
Download or read book Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion written by Andrew Pettegree and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
