Brilliant Europe

Author : Diana Scarisbrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789061537748
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Europe written by Diana Scarisbrick and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewels play an important symbolic role. At the courts of Europe, where dynasties were closely interrelated for centuries, they were signs of status, wealth and power. The strict rules for wearing them are evidence of sophisticated codes, in Portugal and in Sweden, in the United Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Brilliant Europe evokes more than 800 years of the history of jewelry in Europe. The 230 selected jewels and works of art are outstanding both in their exceptional quality and in their relevance to the social and cultural history of Europe. Many of them belonged to people who made a significant contribution to European history or to the development of European thought.

Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674049284
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book That Changed Europe written by Lynn Hunt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.

Author : Timothy McCall
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091479
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Bodies written by Timothy McCall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes, splendid surfaces, and luminous images that separated the lords from the (literally) lackluster masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall describes and interprets the Renaissance glitterati—gorgeously dressed and adorned men—to reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo and the piazza, seduced audiences and materialized power. Fifteenth-century Italian courts put men on display. Here, men were peacocks, attracting attention with scintillating brocades, shining armor, sparkling jewels, and glistening swords, spurs, and sequins. McCall’s investigation of these spectacular masculinities challenges widely held assumptions about appropriate male display and adornment. Interpreting surviving objects, visual representations in a wide range of media, and a diverse array of primary textual sources, McCall argues that Renaissance masculine dress was a political phenomenon that fashioned power and patriarchal authority. Brilliant Bodies describes and recontextualizes the technical construction and cultural meanings of attire, casts a critical eye toward the complex and entangled relations between bodies and clothing, and explores the negotiations among makers, wearers, and materials. This groundbreaking study of masculinity makes an important intervention in the history of male ornamentation and fashion by examining a period when the public display of splendid men not only supported but also constituted authority. It will appeal to specialists in art history and fashion history as well as scholars working at the intersections of gender and politics in quattrocento Italy.

Author : Sir Richard Lodge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Europe from the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks to the Treaty of Berlin, 1878 written by Sir Richard Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Descriptive Portraiture of Europe in Storm and Calm written by Edward King and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P. J. A. N. Rietbergen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415172306
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe written by P. J. A. N. Rietbergen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major contribution to the idea of Europe sweeps the continent from its Celtic and German origins through the influence of the Greeks and Romans to the fruitful--and sometimes bloody--contacts with other cultures. Peter Rietbergen portrays Europe's history as a series of four grand phases of continuity and change set in the context of political, social and economic developments. These phases are new forms of: surviving; believing; looking at man and the world; and consumption and communication. Rietbergen's descriptions are supported by a selection of illuminating excerpts such as: Chaucer's description of London in 1378; Michelangelo on Italian art; and popular music lyrics of Iron Maiden and Sting.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North-western Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eastern Europe to the French Revolution. Western Europe in the Middle Ages written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book Motor Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Harvey Robinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
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Download or read book Readings in European History: From the opening of the Protestant revolt to the present day written by James Harvey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: