Chivalry And The Perfect Prince

Author : Braden Frieder
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271090757

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Chivalry and the Perfect Prince by Braden Frieder Pdf

Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armor, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder’s study utilizes extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English. Included in this book are eighty-one illustrations of fine art and armor from the sixteenth century, the crescendo of the armorer's art in Europe. For the first time in print, these artworks are treated collectively, as integral parts of aristocratic life and culture during the Renaissance.

Author : Braden K. Frieder
Publisher : Sixteenth Century Essays & Stu
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 193111269X

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Chivalry & the Perfect Prince by Braden K. Frieder Pdf

Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armor, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder's study utilizes extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English. Included in this book are eighty-one illustrations of fine art and armor from the sixteenth century, the crescendo of the armorer's art in Europe. For the first time in print, these artworks are treated collectively, as integral parts of aristocratic life and culture during the Renaissance.

Author : Braden Frieder
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935503323

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Chivalry and the Perfect Prince by Braden Frieder Pdf

Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armor, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder’s study utilizes extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English. Included in this book are eighty-one illustrations of fine art and armor from the sixteenth century, the crescendo of the armorer's art in Europe. For the first time in print, these artworks are treated collectively, as integral parts of aristocratic life and culture during the Renaissance.

Author : Noel Fallows
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835943

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Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia by Noel Fallows Pdf

Based on close reading of original sources, Fallows (Spanish, U. of Georgia) offers a detailed reconstruction of the history and practice of jousting, detailing techniques and injuries, styles of fighting, and all the parts of the arms and armor used, with frequent citing of original descriptions. As is typical for this publisher, the volume is beautifully produced, printed on good stock and well-illustrated with color and b&w plates. Notable is the inclusion of three 15th- and 16th-century jousting manuals, presented in full in side-by-side English and Spanish translation. A glossary and bibliography are provided. The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Ann Wroe
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812968118

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The Perfect Prince by Ann Wroe Pdf

In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king. The most intriguing and ambitious pretender in history, this elegant young man was celebrated throughout Europe as the prince he claimed to be: Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the “Princes in the Tower” who were presumed to have been murdered almost a decade earlier. Handsome, well-mannered, and charismatic, he behaved like the perfect prince, and many believed he was one. The greatest European rulers of the age—among them the emperor Maximilian, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and Charles VIII of France—used him as a diplomatic pawn to their own advantage. As such, he tormented Henry VII for eight years, attempting to invade England three times. Eventually, defeated and captured, he admitted to being Perkin Warbeck, the son of a common boatman from Flanders. But was this really the truth? Ann Wroe, a historian and storyteller of the first rank, delves into the secret corners of the late medieval world to explore both the elusive nature of identity and the human propensity for deception. In uncovering the mystery of Perkin Warbeck, Wroe illuminates not only a life but an entire world trembling on the verge of discovery.

Author : Evelyn Everett-Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213334720

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In the Days of Chivalry by Evelyn Everett-Green Pdf

Author : Samuel A. Claussen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275465

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Chivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile by Samuel A. Claussen Pdf

First full investigation in English into the role played by chivalric ideology, and its violent results, in late medieval Castile.

Author : Mónica Domínguez Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0754666719

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Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-conquest Mexico by Mónica Domínguez Torres Pdf

Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the fields of visual, literary and cultural studies to analyse the European and Mesoamerican content of the martial imagery fostered within the indigenous settlements of central Mexico, as well as the ways in which local communities and leaders appropriated, manipulated, modified and reinterpreted foreign visual codes. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches to analyse the complex dynamics of identity formation in colonial communities.

Author : ANN LANDRUM STOCKSTILL
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329863965

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THE PERFECT PRINCE by ANN LANDRUM STOCKSTILL Pdf

Princess Madeline and her maid, Rose, set out on a journey to find her perfect Prince. After almost giving up hope, they find a beautiful castle in the midst of a foggy lake. The Prince of Earnsworth Castle is shrouded in mystery. Madeline learns to love with her heart and not just physical looks. Madeline has found her perfect Prince and she and Prince Charles Earnsworth marry and live happily ever after.

Author : Teofilo F. Ruiz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400842247

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A King Travels by Teofilo F. Ruiz Pdf

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras, Teofilo Ruiz focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the complex relationship between power and ceremony, and offering a vibrant portrait of Spain's cultural and political life. Ruiz covers a range of festival categories: carnival, royal entries, tournaments, calendrical and noncalendrical celebrations, autos de fe, and Corpus Christi processions. He probes the ritual meanings of these events, paying special attention to the use of colors and symbols, and to the power relations articulated through these festive displays. Ruiz argues that the fluid and at times subversive character of medieval festivals gave way to highly formalized and hierarchical events reflecting a broader shift in how power was articulated in late medieval and early modern Spain. Yet Ruiz contends that these festivals, while they sought to buttress authority and instruct different social orders about hierarchies of power, also served as sites of contestation, dialogue, and resistance. A King Travels sheds new light on Iberian festive traditions and their unique role in the centralizing state in early modern Castile.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386136

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Crusading in Art, Thought and Will by Anonim Pdf

This volume captures the diversity of approaches in crusade scholarship, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. Essays by the contributors study the role of art and architecture, liturgy, legal practice, literature, and politics in the institution of crusade.

Author : Rebekka von Mallinckrodt,Angela Schattner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317051008

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Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt,Angela Schattner Pdf

It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern" sports, which are concerned primarily with levels of regulation, organization and competitiveness. Adopting a much broader and culturally based approach, the essays in this collection offer an alternative view of sport in the early modern period. Taking into account a variety of competitive as well as non-competitive forms of sport, physical training and games, the collection situates these types of activities as institutions in their own right within the socio-cultural context of early-modern Europe. Treating the period not only as a precursor of modern developments, but as an independent and formative era, the essays engage with overlooked topics and sources such as court records, self-narratives, and visual materials, and with contemporary discussions about space, gender and postcolonial studies. By allowing for this increased contextualization of sport, the collection is able to integrate it into more general historical questions and approaches. The volume underlines how developments in early modern sport influenced later developments, whilst at the same time being thoroughly shaped by contemporary notions of the body, status and honour. These notions influenced not only the contemporary sporting fashion but the adoption of sports in elite education, the use of sports facilities, training methods and modes of competition, thus offering a more integrated idea of the place of sport in early modern society.

Author : Ryan E. Gregg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004386167

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City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts by Ryan E. Gregg Pdf

Ryan E. Gregg relates how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany both employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority.

Author : Jonas van Tol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004330726

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Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1572 by Jonas van Tol Pdf

Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1572 explores how the first decade of the religious wars in France was interpreted by German Protestants and why they felt compelled to intervene.

Author : Sheila J. Nayar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319968995

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Renaissance Responses to Technological Change by Sheila J. Nayar Pdf

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.