Download or read book Abr g de la vie de Tr s Auguste et tr s vertueuse Princesse Marie Terese d Austriche Reyne de France de Navarre written by Juan Buenaventura de Soria and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joseph d Arimathie written by Robert (de Boron) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of Female Kings in Europe 1300 1800 written by William Monter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs—the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)—describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.
Download or read book Marketing Maximilian written by Larry Silver and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the photo op, political rulers were manipulating visual imagery to cultivate their authority and spread their ideology. Born just decades after Gutenberg, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) was, Larry Silver argues, the first ruler to exploit the propaganda power of printed images and text. Marketing Maximilian explores how Maximilian used illustrations and other visual arts to shape his image, achieve what Max Weber calls "the routinization of charisma," strengthen the power of the Hapsburg dynasty, and help establish the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A fascinating study of the self-fashioning of an early modern ruler who was as much image-maker as emperor, Marketing Maximilian shows why Maximilian remains one of the most remarkable, innovative, and self-aggrandizing royal art patrons in European history. Silver describes how Maximilian--lacking a real capital or court center, the ability to tax, and an easily manageable territory--undertook a vast and expensive visual-media campaign to forward his extravagant claims to imperial rank, noble blood, perfect virtues, and military success. To press these claims, Maximilian patronized and often personally supervised and collaborated with the best printers, craftsmen, and artists of his time (among them no less than Albrecht Dürer) to plan and produce illustrated books, medals, heralds, armor, and an ambitious tomb monument.
Download or read book Realms of Ritual written by Peter Arnade and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal court and the urban centers constantly renegotiated their relationship. This book is the first to apply the combined insights of social, political, and cultural history to an important but little-explored area of medieval and early modern Europe, the Burgundian Netherlands. Realms of Ritual traces the role of ritual in encounters between the dukes of Burgundy (later the Habsburg princes) and the townspeople of Ghent, the most important city in the county of Flanders. Arnade analyzes city-state ceremonies through which Ghent's aldermen, patricians, guildsmen, and the city's military and drama confraternities confronted local power and the growth of the Burgundian state. In the first serious reappraisal of Johan Huizinga's classic work The Waning of the Middle Ages, Arnade confirms Huizinga's vision of a Low Country society rich in public symbols, yet reveals the city-state conflict within which such ritual thrived. He offers a dramatically new perspective on the Northern Renaissance, as well as a historical/anthropological model for the study of urban-state relations.
Download or read book Le Bone Florence of Rome written by Carol Falvo Heffernan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women of Distinction written by Yvonne Bleyerveld and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twee Dames met Klasse"Dames met Klasse laat ons de wereld van Margareta van York en Margareta van Oostenrijk zien, twee machtige dames die rond 1500 aan het roer van de Nederlanden stonden.Wat hield hen bezig, hoe stonden zij in het leven? Hoe hielden zij zich politiek en emotioneel staande in zo'n uitgesproken mannenwereld? Wat was hun band met God, macht, kunst en wetenschap? Een vrouwelijk dubbelportret uit een even boeiende tijd als de onze.Mechelen, vijfhonderd jaar geleden. Twee vrouwen spannen er de kroon: Margareta van York en Margareta van Oostenrijk. Beide dames worden al vroeg weduwe en spelen een actieve rol in het politieke en culturele leven van Europa. Ze bewegen zich op het snijvlak waar Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, de Oude en de Nieuwe Wereld(en) elkaar raken. Elk van hen vormt een brug in tijd en ruimte tussen allerlei, vaak tegenstrijdige mens- en wereldbeelden, mentaliteiten en werkelijkheden. Hun hoven dienen als kweekvijvers waarin ouderloze koningskinderen worden voorbereid op het 'echte' leven. De jonge Karel bijvoorbeeld, die later keizer zal worden, groeit er op onder de hoede van zijn tante Margareta van Oostenrijk.Tal van kunstenaars - zoals Pierre de la Rue, Conrad Meit, Jan Gossaert 'Mabuse' en Bernard van Orley - werken aan en voor het hof in Mechelen. Erasmus en Albrecht Dürer komen er op bezoek. Muziek, beeldende kunst en geletterdheid, geloof en wetenschap komen er op een wonderlijke wijze samen. Getuigen hiervan zijn de rijke bibliotheek met handschriften en gedrukte boeken, een imposante portrettengalerij, prachtige wandtapijten, allerlei religieuze werken, een 'rariteitenkabinet' met koralen en luxegerei uit de hele wereld, de allereerste verzameling exotica uit het pas veroverde Mexico... Maar wie zijn deze twee Margareta's eigenlijk? Wat bezielt hen? Hoe blijven ze overeind in het ingewikkelde, internationale machtsspel waarin vooral mannen de dienst uitmaken? Kunnen ze hun vrouw-zijn handhaven en, als het erop aankomt, ook strategisch inzetten in het belang van de opvolging en de familie? Hoe gaan ze om met rolmodellen, vrouwbeelden en hun lot als weduwe? Hoe uiten zij gevoelens als liefde, geluk en verdriet? Welke rol spelen traditie, religie, kennis en kunst in hun leven? Rond deze en andere vragen is de groots opgezette tentoonstelling Dames met Klasse. Margareta van York en Margareta van Oostenrijk opgebouwd. Als een zoektocht en een ontmoeting, complex en verrassend, in de breedte en in de diepte, met beide Margareta's én de stad Mechelen als hoofdrolspelers."Margareta van York - Margareta van Oostenrijk - Dames met Klasse" geeft een intrigerend en rijkelijk geïllustreerd overzicht van de Bourgondische periode in onze geschiedenis, een topmoment van rijkdom en kunst in de Lage Landen.Margareta van York en Margareta van Oostenrijk, twee machtige vrouwen die rond 1500 in Mechelen hof hielden, staan centraal in dat succesverhaal van ongekende hoogbloei in Mechelen. De Margareta's drukten een onuitwisbare stempel op Mechelen in de late Vijftiende en de Vroege Zestiende Eeuw.Hoe kwamen zij aan de machtWelke plaats namen ze in in het Mechelen van de RenaissanceHoe stonden zij in het levenWat dreef henWat was hun band met God, macht, kunst en wetenschapHoe hielden zij zich politiek en emotioneel staande in een uitgesproken mannenwereldDit boek dringt door tot de kern van deze bijzondere vrouwenwereld in het 15de en 16de-eeuwse Europa, met unieke illustraties en boeiende essays.Tentoonstelling in de Brouwerij Lamot, Mechelen, van 17 september tot 18 december 2005.
Download or read book La venjance Alixandre written by le Névelon Jean and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For the Common Good written by Jelle Haemers and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1477, the Low Countries were in chaos. On 5 January Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed in the battle of Nancy. His political adversaries used this fortuitous opportunity to reverse his much-hated policies. The late duke's confidents were executed, as nobles fled from court.The French king declared war on Charles' heir, Mary of Burgundy, and the cities rose in rebellion against the duchy. United in their opposition to the ducal court, the Estates-General instituted a new state structure which severely reduced the power of the central state. The duchess' new husband, Maximilian of Austria, was never able to dictate war policy nor appease the discontent of the populace, because his first priority was to strengthen the power of the Habsburg dynasty. In 1482, when Mary of Burgundy died after a tragic fall from her horse, revolt again spread across the county of Flanders. In this dramatic crisis that would last for a decade, central authority was again challenged by a political alternative, the Flemish regency council. This book examines the people behind the revolt.From a murky background of conflicting loyalties, it identifies the principal allies of the Habsburg dynasty and key political adversaries of Maximilian in the Flemish cities. An in-depth analysis of their lives and their socio-economic and cultural backgrounds on the eve of the Flemish Revolt elucidates their reasons for rebelling or remaining loyal to court.By focusing on disloyal nobles at court and urban dissenters in the county of Flanders, this book goes beyond previous studies of the revolt and offers new insights into the social history of medieval politics. In the end, readers will discover whether the court, the nobility, and the urban rebels were really striving for the goal they claimed, the common good.
Download or read book Excavating the Medieval Image written by David S. Areford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of art historians concerned with new questions related to artistic working methods, audience and the status of the visual in the Middle Ages and the modern era. Excavating the Medieval Image argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the illuminated manuscript becomes a kind of archaeological site, which must be carefully unearthed layer by layer. The fourteen essays gathered here are written by scholars of both medieval and Renaissance art history, and demonstrate varied methodological approaches that combine the pursuits of traditional connoisseurship and iconography with those of critical theory and historiography. In addition, the authors contribute more broadly to important interdisciplinary issues such as the study of gender, text and image, and the history of literacy and the book.
Download or read book Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe written by Andrea Pearson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding, and, conversely, how it can be stretched too far. It demonstrates that agency is compatible with relational gender analysis, especially when alternative agencies such as spectatorship are taken into account. It also makes evident the importance of aesthetics for the study of identity and agency. The individual essays reveal, among other things, how portraits broadened the traditional parameters of portraiture, explored transvestism and same-sex eroticism, appropriated aspects of male portraiture to claim those values for their sitters, and, as sites for gender negotiation, resistance, and debate, invoked considerable relational anxiety. Richly layered in method, the book offers an array of provocative insights into its subject.
Download or read book Charles the Bold written by Richard Vaughan and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and biographical study of Charles's personality and his role as ruler, 1467-1477, discussing his relationship with his subjects and his neighbours, and giving particular attention to his imperial plans and projects and his clash with the Swiss.
Download or read book Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair written by Hanno Wijsman and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, 500 years after his death, the Royal Library of Belgium organised an exhibition revealing treasures from the era of Philip the Fair (1478-1506), last duke of Burgundy. This volume reunites most of the papers delivered at a conference held during the exhibition, increased with two new articles. Ten specialists from Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States discuss the book market and its place in society in this transitional period when manuscripts and printed books were produced and used next to one another. The contributions are organised in pairs around five topics, whereby in each case one author treats manuscripts and the other printed books: Philip the Fair and his books, art in books, music in books, politics in books, the book market. Contributions by: Renaud Adam, Jean-Marie Cauchies, Lieve De Kesel, Samuel Mareel, Zoe Saunders, Susie Speakman Sutch, Herman Pleij, Jan Van der Stock, Rob Wegman, and Hanno Wijsman.
Download or read book Abrege de la vie de tres auguste et tres vertueuse princesse marie therese d Austriche Reyne de France et de Navarre par le R P Bonnaventure de Soria written by Bonaventure de Soria and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Imperial Mother Royal Daughter written by Queen Marie Antoinette (consort of Louis XVI, King of France) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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