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Author : F. P. van Oostrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0520067770
"While being compared favorably to Johan Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, this is in fact a livelier, more convincing analysis of the late fourteenth century."--Johan P. Snapper, University of California, Berkeley
Author : Rachel Peat
Publisher : Royal Collection Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 190974168X
Japan: Courts and Culture tells the story of three centuries of British royal contact with Japan, from 1603 to c.1937, when the exchange of exquisite works of art was central to both diplomatic relations and cultural communication. With discussions of courtly rituals, trade relationships, treaties, and other matters of concern between the two nations, this book provides important historical and political context in addition to granting a new look at the works of art in question. Featuring new research on previously unpublished works, including porcelain, lacquer, armor, embroidery, metalwork, and works on paper, this book showcases the unparalleled craftsmanship of these objects, and the local materials, techniques, and traditions behind them. Japan: Courts and Culture is published to accompany a spectacular exhibition of the same name, which opens at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, in June 2020. The book's stunning photography, contextual essays, and historical insights offer a highly visual record of a royal narrative and history that has not yet been widely documented.
Author : Erin Griffey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000480320
Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing insights into aspects of both community and continuity at courts as well as individual identity, change and difference. Culture is presented as not merely a vehicle for court propaganda in promoting the monarch and the dynasty, but as a site for a complex range of meanings that conferred status and virtue on the patron, maker, court and the wider community of elites. The essays show that the court provided an arena for virtue and virtuosity, intellectual and social play, demonstration of moral authority and performance of social, gendered, confessional and dynastic identity. Early Modern Court Culture moves from political structures and political players to architectural forms and spatial geographies; ceremonial and ritual observances; visual and material culture; entertainment and knowledge. With 35 contributions on subjects including gardens, dress, scent, dance and tapestries, this volume is a necessary resource for all students and scholars interested in the court in early modern Europe.
Author : Julie Fraser,Brianne McGonigle Leyh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839107306
This pioneering book explores the intersections of law and culture at the International Criminal Court (ICC), offering insights into how notions of culture affect the Court’s legal foundations, functioning and legitimacy, both in theory and in practice.
Author : H. Watanabe-O'Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230514492
This is the first cultural history of Baroque Dresden, the capital of Saxony and the most important Protestant territory in the Empire from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly shows how the art patronage of the Electors fits into the intellectual climate of the age and investigates its political and religious context. Lutheran church music and architecture, the influence of Italy, the cabinet of curiosities and the culture of collecting, alchemy, mining and early technology, official image-making and court theatre are some of the wealth of colourful subjects dealt with during the period 1553 to 1733.
Author : R. O. Bucholz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0804720800
Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
Author : Albrecht Fuess,Jan-Peter Hartung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136917806
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of images of courtly life and architecture within the Muslim realm. The thematic methodology employed by the contributors underlines their interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to issues of politics and patronage from across the Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to India. Themes range from the religious legitimacy of Muslim rulers, terminologies for court culture in Oriental languages, Muslim concepts of space for royal representation, accessibility of rulers, the role of royal patronage for Muslim scholars and artists to the growing influence of European courts as role models from the eighteenth century onwards. Discussing specific terminologies for courts in Oriental languages and explaining them to the non specialist, chapters describe the specific features of Muslim courts and point towards future research areas. As such, it fills this important gap in the existing literature in the areas of Islamic history, religion, and Islam in particular.
Author : Catherine Cubitt
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015058217855
The role of the court in early medieval polities has long been recognised as an essential force in the running of the kingdom. The court was not only an organ of central government but a sociological community with its own ideology and culture, and a place where royal power was both displayed and negotiated. The studies within this volume reflect the diversity of modern court studies, considering the court as a social body and considering its educative and ideological activities. The contributors to this volume bring together historical, archaeological, art historical and literary approaches to the topic as they consider aspects of court life in England, Francia, Rome, and Byzantium from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The volume therefore looks at court life in the round, emphasizes and invites connections between early medieval courts, and opens new perspectives for the understanding of early medieval courts.
Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216962
Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England R. Malcolm Smuts "The sharpest feature of this book is that it takes poetry, pictures, and architecture seriously by seeing these as major items of historical testimony. . . . An engaging and sensitive study."--American Historical Review "Smuts's great strength is his grasp of the politics of the age. . . . At every point he is able to buttress his arguments about Charles I's 'cultural policy' by reference to Charles's social, economic, and foreign policy."--Journal of Modern History "The book's virtues are numerous. Smuts, a historian, has read widely, pulling together much valuable information while offering intelligent insights of his own. . . . Particularly valuable is the book's emphasis on the social and factional complexity of the court and thus of the art it produced and consumed."--Sixteenth Century Journal "Smuts's book deserves a wide readership. Provocative in the best sense of the word, it challenges the reader at every turn and offers a running commentary on possibilities for future research."--Journal of British Studies In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. R. Malcolm Smuts is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is editor of The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture and author of Culture and Power in England, ca. 1585-1685. 1987 336 pages 6 x 9 30 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-1696-7 Paper $24.95s £16.50 World Rights History, Cultural Studies, Fine Arts
Author : Helen Cooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051279696
Ten essays from the September 1998 conference The Waning of the Middle Ages? A Reappraisal of Fifteenth-Century English Poetry, held in Dublin seek cultural, political, and aesthetic significance in a body of work generally considered exceptionally dull. Mostly English, the scholars portray the society of the period as on the brink of radical and irrevocable change, and find in the work of Lydgate, Hoccleve, Skelton and their anonymous contemporaries a perplexing and variable blend of self- consciousness, paranoia, and political and poetic triumphalism. Distributed in the US by ISBS. c. Book News Inc.
Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174744
"This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, processes driven by immediate personal imperatives, mediated through social, political, and cultural interaction.The essays address several common themes. First, they rethink previous notions of imperial isolation, instead stressing the court’s myriad ties both to local Beijing society and to the empire as a whole. Second, the court was far from monolithic or static. Palace women, monks, craftsmen, educators, moralists, warriors, eunuchs, foreign envoys, and others strove to advance their interests and forge advantageous relations with the emperor and one another. Finally, these case studies illustrate the importance of individual agency. The founder’s legacy may have formed the warp of court practices and tastes, but the weft varied considerably. Reflecting the complexity of the court, the essays represent a variety of perspectives and disciplines—from intellectual, cultural, military, and political to art history and musicology."
Author : Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843835905
The reconstitution of the royal court in 1660 brought with it the restoration of fears that had been associated with earlier Stuart courts: disorder, sexual liberty, popery and arbitrary government. This volume illustrates the ways in which court culture was informed by the heady politics of Britain between 1660 and 1685.
Author : Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Malcolm Vale,Malcolm Vale
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198205296
In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the century or so between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low Countries, he illuminates a period in the history of princes and court life previously overshadowed by that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. Taking in subjects as diverse as art patronage and gambling, hunting anddevotional religion, Malcolm Vale rediscovers a richness and abundance of artistic, literary, and musical life. He shows how, despite the pressures of political fragmentation, unrest, and a nascent awareness of national identity, a common culture emerged in English, French, and Dutch courtsocieties at this time. The result is a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the nature and role of the court in European history and a celebration of a forgotten age.
Author : V. J. Scattergood,J. W. Sherborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Arts, English
ISBN : UOM:39015005552271
Author : Henry Maguire
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0884023087
The imperial court in Constantinople is central to the outsider's vision of Byzantium. However, in spite of its fame in literature and scholarship, there have been few attempts to analyze the court in its entirety as a phenomenon. These studies provide a unified composition by presenting Byzantine courtly life in all its interconnected facets.