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Book Festivals and Ceremonies

Download or read book Festivals and Ceremonies written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annotated source bibliography of over 2,800 European court festival works. It allows access to many rare accounts of court festivals. Extensive indexes provide ruler's name, court name, territory, type of entertainment performed, composers and artists. There are numerous cross-references.

Book A son Altesse Royale Madame Anne Charlotte  Duchesse de Lorraine et de Bar

Download or read book A son Altesse Royale Madame Anne Charlotte Duchesse de Lorraine et de Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extravagant Inventions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfram Koeppe
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1588394743
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Extravagant Inventions written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.

Book The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris

Download or read book The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris written by Gouverneur Morris and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.

Book Letters from Liselotte

Download or read book Letters from Liselotte written by Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married in 1672, at 19, to Louis XIV's bisexual brother, the Duke of Orleans, Liselotte began her voluminous and fascinating correspondence from the Court of Versailles which she continued until her death 50 years later, making her the greatest chronicler of her day.

Book A Short Account of the Affairs of Scotland

Download or read book A Short Account of the Affairs of Scotland written by David Wemyss and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portraits Around Marc Antoine Charpentier

Download or read book Portraits Around Marc Antoine Charpentier written by Patricia M. Ranum and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 59 biographies of the ancestors, relatives, colleagues and patrons of French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), followed by a boiography of the composer based upon the author's archival research. Published to commemorate the tricentennial of the composer's death, Feb. 24, 1704. Will be of special interest to musicologists and historians (French history, women's history, history of clientage/patronage, history of the family).

Book A History of the French in London

Download or read book A History of the French in London written by Debra Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War.It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.

Book The Rise of Richelieu

Download or read book The Rise of Richelieu written by Joseph Bergin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of Richelieu up to the point where he took ministerial office for the second time in 1624.

Book The Society of Princes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Spangler
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780754658603
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Society of Princes written by Jonathan Spangler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The princes étrangers were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, none more so than the princes from the Lorraine-Guise family. This book examines the Lorraine-Guise at the court of Louis XIV and their renewed power, wealth and influence after the turbulent Wars of Religion. It is a substantial contribution to scholarship in court studies and will add greatly to debates on the nature of crown-noble relations in the era of absolutism.

Book The Order of Minims in Seventeenth Century France

Download or read book The Order of Minims in Seventeenth Century France written by P.J.S. Whitmore and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of the text from the Dies frae (S. Matthew, XXV, 40). It is also probable that this other Saint Francis, partly out of admiration for his illustrious compatriot of Assisi and partly from a compelling urge to be superlative in all things, chose the title in opposition to the Franciscans, the Fratres Minori, l who had previously adopted this style taken from Saint Matthew, XXIII, 8. The title "Minim" was confirmed in these words" ... eosque Eremitos Ordinis Minimorum Fratrum Eremitarum F. Francesci de Paula in posterum nuncupari," taken from the Papal Bull, Meritis religiosae vitae, of 26 February, 1493. The earliest reference to the Order in France is in a fragment preserved in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal called, La regle et vie de Frere Franfois, pauvre et humble hermite de Paule, laquelle donne a tous ses 2 freres voulant entrer et vivre en son ordre. The dating of this manuscript should be accepted with considerable reserve; it bears a clearly legible "1474," although it seems most unlikely that any reference to an Order occurred before the Bull of 1493 or that any Rule appeared in French before the Founder's visit to Louis XI in 1483. 3 The fame of Francis and his reputation as a "guerisseur" had reached the French court where Louis XI was sick and dying; the King summoned him to the chateau of Le Plessis-Ies-Tours, but it required the intervention of the Pope to make the hermit undertake the journey

Book The Art of Needle Work  from the Earliest Ages  Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries

Download or read book The Art of Needle Work from the Earliest Ages Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries written by Elizabeth Stone and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Servants of the Dynasty

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Walthall
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2008-06-10
  • ISBN : 0520941519
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Servants of the Dynasty written by Anne Walthall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.

Book Crown  Church  and Episcopate Under Louis XIV

Download or read book Crown Church and Episcopate Under Louis XIV written by Joseph Bergin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph Bergin explores the king's practice of appointing qualified and worthy men as bishops, and of the difficulties and tensions inherent in it. Candidates generally began their careers with theology degrees and graduated to minor clerical positions, where they might gain valuable, practical experience, prior to their appointment as relatively mature men. Rarely were archbishops chosen who had not served as bishops, but appeal was to be found in family credit as well as demonstrable ability. The author explains the provenance of this system, illustrating it with numerous well-drawn examples and examining it in detail. In addition he accounts for the deficiencies of this elastic policy of appointment, which occasioned a group of some 120 bishops, not all of whom the king and his advisers could have personal knowledge." "This book uncovers a crucial part of the reign of Louis XIV and is essential for anyone with a serious interest in early modern French history."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Medallists  T Z

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Medallists T Z written by Leonard Forrer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cyclopedia of Music   Musicians

Download or read book Cyclopedia of Music Musicians written by John Denison Champlin and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of the King

Download or read book Portrait of the King written by Louis Marin and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-02-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: