Download or read book Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV written by Abby E. Zanger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book radically revises our understanding of the construction of symbolic power in the age of absolutism by examining the fictions that emerge from visual, narrative, and ceremonial representations of (and reactions to) the 1660 marriage of Louis XIV to the Spanish infanta. Drawing on semiotics, the history of theater and spectacle, gender studies, and anthropology, the author reconsiders the nature of representation in absolutist political culture. The book is not intended as a history of the marriage. Rather, the author analyzes in detail exemplary moments or scenes from the royal wedding, in particular uncovering the dialectic at the heart of nuptial fictions. Like the kinship exchange out of which they emerge, fictions of marriage manipulate antagonistic forces in the service of promoting the political culture of absolutism. The nuptial fiction portrays a king who though central, is not yet absolute, and who depends on images and representational forms to become visible. His perceived power relies on appendages such as the queen and forms like print, fireworks, and drama. A calculus of addition, this dependence is invisible from within the models previously used to explore the representation of sovereignty, models based on rituals of substitution like the funeral rite. Though the fictions generated during Louis XIV’s marriage are not the principal ones of his rule, they do affect the portrait of the king and provide insight into the making of an image scholars too frequently take for granted. Studying nuptial fictions invites us to reexamine clichés about the representation of absolutist power, generalizations that do not fully characterize the less monumental (but equally crucial) periods of Louis XIV’s kingship.

Download or read book The Seventeenth century French Emblem written by Alison Saunders and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book French Literature Including Finely Illustrated Books of the 17th 20th Centuries and Armorial Bindings written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue written by Maggs Bros and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Formal French written by William Leon Wiley and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Formal French".

Download or read book L Entr e triomphante de Leurs Majestez Louis XIV roy de France et de Navarre et Marie Th r se d Austriche son espouse dans la ville de Paris au retour de la signature de la paix g n ralle et de leur heureux mariage Enrichie de plusieurs Figures des Harangues de diverses Pieces consid rables pour l Histoire Le tout exactement recueilly par l ordre de Messieurs de Ville Et Imprim e l an M LC LXII Avec privilege du Roy written by Jean Tronçon and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L entr e triomphante de leurs majestez Louis XIV roy de France et de Navarre et Marie Th r se d Austriche son espouse dans la ville de Paris capitale de leurs royaumes au retour de la signature de la paix g n ralle et de leur heureux mariage Enrichie de plusieurs figures des harangues de diverses pi ces consid rables pour l histoire Le tout exactement recueilly par l ordre de me ss ieurs de ville Et imprim e l an M DC LXII written by Jean Tronçon (juriste).) and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Turin written by Anthony L. Cardoza and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Book of Emblems written by Andrea Alciati and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medieval Europe. First published in 1531, this illustrated book was a collection of emblems, each consisting of a motto or proverb, a typically enigmatic illustration, and a short explanation. Most of the emblems had symbolic and moral applications. Scholars depended on Alciati's book to interpret contemporary art and literature, while writers and artists turned to it to invest their work with an understood didactic sense. This new edition of the Emblematum Liber includes the original Latin texts, highly readable English translations, and the illustrations belonging to each of the 212 emblems. The editor's introduction explains both the importance and the cultural contexts of Alciati's book, as well as its innumerable artistic applications. For instance, close study of the emblems reveals--to cite only two examples--why statues of lions are traditionally placed before government buildings, and what underlying political message was conveyed by innumerable equestrian portraits during the Baroque era. The collection includes as an appendix the formerly suppressed emblem, "Adversus Naturam Peccantes," accompanied by a translation of the learned commentary applied to it by Johann Thuilius in 1612. An extensive bibliography points the student to scholarly research specifically dealing with artistic applications of Alciati's emblems. Altogether, this new edition of Alciati's seminal work is an essential tool for modern students of the liberal arts.

Download or read book The Sixteenth century French Emblem Book written by Alison Saunders and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queenship in Europe 1660 1815 written by Clarissa Campbell Orr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Download or read book The Golden Age of Marie De Medici written by Susan Saward and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Royal Tour of France by Charles IX and Catherine De Medici written by Victor E. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France written by Sarah Hanley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Lit de Justice assembly, Sarah Hanley draws on history, legend, ritual, and discourse to show how constitutional ideologies were propagated in the Grand-chambre of the Parlement of Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book The Manuscripts of Henry Duncan Skrine Esq written by Alessandro Antelminelli and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Entr e triomphale de leurs majest s Louis XIV Roy de France et de Navarre et de Marie Th r se d Autriche son pouse dans le Ville de Paris written by and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: