Empresses And Queens In The Courtly Public Sphere From The 17th To The 20th Century

Author : Marion Romberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446090X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century written by Marion Romberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight case studies focus on a specific group of European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the 17th to the 20th century and their relationship to the media, using a unique, comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach.

Author : Benjamin Marschke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805394886
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Plurality at Princely Courts written by Benjamin Marschke and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern European monarchies legitimized their rule through dynasty and religion where ideally the divine right of the ruler corresponded with the official confession of the territory. It has thus been assumed that at princely courts only a single confession was present. However, the reality of the confessionalization paradigm commonly involved more than one faith. Religious Plurality at Princely Courts explores the reverberations of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at courts on dynastic, symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels addressing a significant neglected understanding of interreligious dialogue, religious change, and confessional blending. Incorporating perspectives across European studies such as domestic and international politics, dynastic strategies, the history of ideas, women’s and gender history, and material culture, the contributions to this volume highlight the intersections of religious plurality at court.

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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academic American Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twenty-one volume set of encyclopedias providing an alphabetical listing of information on a variety of topics.

Author : Susan Dunn-Hensley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319632272
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria written by Susan Dunn-Hensley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna’s religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria’s illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy.

Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432159
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives written by Martha Moffitt Peacock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

Author : Maaike van Berkel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004315713
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives written by Maaike van Berkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.

Author : Sarah Joan Moran
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004391355
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750 written by Sarah Joan Moran and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.

Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133502
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Coffee written by Brian Cowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Author : Wolfgang Schmale
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
ISBN 13 : 9783515114578
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Continent Allegories in Baroque Central Europe written by Wolfgang Schmale and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2016 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconography of the four continents dates back to 16th and early 17th centuries, at a time when Europe's vision of the world was changed dramatically by discovery and conquest of the New World. Its peak of dissemination was reached in the 18th century. The late Baroque claims a special role for two reasons: The first is the large number of reproductions and applications during this period, the second is the multifaceted significance these allegories enjoyed. They could be inserted into religious and liturgical settings as well as into political language or that of the history of civilization and mankind. "Language" in this sense means that the continent allegories were less the object of an art historical interpretation than being considered a formative part of religious, liturgical, political, historical and other discourses. As pictorial language they were interwoven with text, dogmas, narratives and stereotypes. Thus the authors of this volume inquire what the allegories of the four continents actually meant to people living in the Baroque age. Die Ikonografie der vier Erdteile geht auf das 16. und 17. Jahrhundert zuruck. Ihre Entstehung verdankt sich der Entdeckung Amerikas und den damit einhergehenden Veranderungen in Europas Bild von der Welt. Rasch fand die Ikonografie Verbreitung und erreichte mit der Eroberung der Dorfkirche im 18. Jahrhundert eine bis heute einzigartige Dichte in Zentraleuropa. Ihre Verwendung reichte von religiosen und liturgischen Kontexten uber die politische Bildsprache bis hin zu zivilisationsgeschichtlichen Narrationen. Die Erdteilallegorien "sprechen" als formative Teile religioser, liturgischer, politischer, historischer und anderer Diskurse. Als Bildsprache wurden sie mit Texten, Dogmen, Erzahlungen und Stereotypen verknupft. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes gehen aus unterschiedlichen historisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung die Erdteilallegorien fur die Menschen des 18. Jahrhunderts hatten.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.