De Gournay

Author : Claud Cecil Gurney
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847867905

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de Gournay by Claud Cecil Gurney Pdf

Renowned for its elegant hand-painted wallpapers and textiles, de Gournay creates some of the most beautiful interiors in the world. Celebrated for its hand-painted chinoiserie wallpapers, sumptuous patterns of colorful flora and varied birdlife, the company produces additional collections that explore historical themes, such as nineteenth- century French pastoral scenes or exotic Brazilian landscapes bursting with wildlife. De Gournay also crafts more abstracted designs that fit well with modern interiors. Collaborating with renowned tastemakers from across creative industries, de Gournay works with leading interior designers as well as noted trendsetters such as Kate Moss. This volume showcases de Gournay designs in situ, in beautiful interiors created by top designers in homes from San Francisco and New York to London, Paris, and beyond. The book explores de Gournay interiors in both city and country settings, how to take inspiration from English stately homes, and how custom wallpaper designs are created. Full of inspiring interiors and design ideas, de Gournay is an in-depth look at the stunning creations of one of the most prestigious and influential design houses of today.

Author : Marie le Jars de Gournay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226305264

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Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works by Marie le Jars de Gournay Pdf

During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France. This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist issues. Two of these appear here in English for the first time—The Promenade of Monsieur de Montaigne and The Apology for the Woman Writing. One of the first modern psychological novels, the best-selling Promenade was also the first to explore female sexual feeling. With the autobiographical Apology, Gournay defended every aspect of her life, from her moral conduct to her household management. The book also includes Gournay's last revisions (1641) of her two best-known feminist treatises, The Equality of Men and Women and The Ladies' Complaint. The editors provide a general overview of Gournay's career, as well as individual introductions and extensive annotations for each work.

Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191654497

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The Equality of the Sexes by Desmond M. Clarke Pdf

Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society were debated in Western culture from the civilization of ancient Greece to the establishment of early Christian churches. There had also been some proponents of women's superiority (in comparison with men) prior to the early modern period. In contrast with both of these claims, the seventeenth century witnessed the first publications that argued for the equality of men and women. Among the most articulate and original defenders of that view were Marie le Jars de Gournay, Anna Maria van Schurman, and François Poulain de la Barre. Gournay published The Equality of Men and Women in Paris in 1622, while one of her Dutch correspondents, Van Schurman, published in Latin her Dissertation in support of women's education in 1641. Poulain wrote a radical Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes in 1673, which he also published in Paris. These three feminist tracts transformed the language and conceptual framework in which questions about women's equality or otherwise were subsequently discussed. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, anonymous plagiarized editions and pirated translations of Poulain's work appeared in English, as 'vindications' of the rights of women. This edition includes new translations, from French and Latin, of these three key texts, and excerpts from the authors' related writings, together with an extensive introduction to the religious and philosophical context within which they argued against the traditional view of women's natural inferiority to men.

Author : Anne R. Larsen,Colette H. Winn
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0814324738

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Renaissance Women Writers by Anne R. Larsen,Colette H. Winn Pdf

A collective awareness of the determining role of gender marks the essays in this volume, providing fresh insights into the works of Renaissance women writers.

Author : Alastair Hamilton,Maurits H. Van Den Boogert,Bart Westerweel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004147614

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The Republic of Letters And the Levant by Alastair Hamilton,Maurits H. Van Den Boogert,Bart Westerweel Pdf

This collection of articles analyses the interests and experiences in the Levant of a number of leading western scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the networks of learned friends throughout Europe with whom they corresponded.

Author : Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Battle abbey
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014940956

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The Battle Abbey Roll by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland Pdf

Author : Derval Conroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000348927

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Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France by Derval Conroy Pdf

This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France, a period and a country which produced some of the earliest theorisations on equality. In so doing, it aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the history of political thought, and to situate "the woman question" within that history. The eleven chapters in the volume span the fields of political theory, philosophy, literature, history and history of ideas, bringing together literary scholars, historians, philosophers and scholars of political thought, and examining an extensive range of primary sources. Whilst most of the chapters focus on the conceptualisation of a moral, metaphysical or intellectual equality between the sexes, space is also given to concrete examples of a de facto gender equality in operation. The volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students of political thought, history of philosophy, women’s history and gender studies alike. It aims to throw light on the history of Western ideas of equality and difference, questions which continue to preoccupy cultural historians, philosophers, political theorists and feminist critics.

Author : Rebecca Lawson,Reena Simon
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1788792467

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Scandi Rustic by Rebecca Lawson,Reena Simon Pdf

Award-winning bloggers and instagrammers Reena Simon and Rebecca Lawson are renowned for their love affair with all things Scandi. In their first book, Scandi Rustic Style, they reveal how to create a home that takes elements of Scandinavian design and introduces rustic natural materials and textures to create a Scandi-inspired interior that is cozy, relaxed, and inviting. Come with Rebecca and Reena on a journey that takes in the very best in Scandi Rustic homes. Whether you live in an urban apartment, a country cottage, or a blank-canvas new-build, this relaxed, sustainable, modern rustic style will work perfectly for your home.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:303115806

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Collectanea Archaeologica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Hugo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Convents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036708886

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The mediæval nunneries of the county of Somerset, and diocese of Bath & Wells by Thomas Hugo Pdf

Author : Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015082067961

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Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society by Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Pdf

Author : Richard L. Regosin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520360372

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Montaigne's Unruly Brood by Richard L. Regosin Pdf

Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional figure of textuality. He argues that Montaigne's writing is best described as a corpus of siblings with multiple faces and competing voices, a hybrid textuality inclined both to truth and dissimulation, to faithfulness and betrayal, to form and deformation. And he analyzes how this unruly, mixed brood also discloses a sexuality and gender dynamic in the Essais that is more conflicted than the traditional metaphor of literary paternity allows. Regosin challenges traditional critics by showing how the "logic" of a faithful filial text is disrupted and how the writing self displaces the author's desire for mastery and totalization. He approaches the Essais from diverse critical and theoretical perspectives that provide new ground for understanding both Montaigne's complex textuality and the obtrusive reading that it simultaneously invites and resists. His analysis is informed by poststructuralist criticism, by reception theory, and by gender and feminist studies, yet at the same time he treats the Essais as a child of sixteenth-century Humanism and late Renaissance France. Regosin also examines Montaigne's self-proclaimed taste for Ovid and the role played by the seminal texts of self-representation and aesthetic conception (Narcissus and Pygmalion) and the myth of sexual metamorphosis (Iphis). This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Author : T. Dykeman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401734004

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The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers by T. Dykeman Pdf

When down from the moon stepped the goddess of the night, she bid Minerva/Athene come to her. "Minerva/Athene," she said, "you sprang fully formed from the head of your father. Now all the daughters of mankind think they, too, are as rootless as you. Tonight I bid you dance, join the circle round 1 that tree glistening with the clarity of wisdom. Mother Natura and Lady Philosophia, hands together, already have begun the promenade of myth and allegory. " Still in the garb of gold and white stone, Minerva/ Athene did as she was bid and danced till dawn. Then in new light, she found herself suddenly a budding flower on a tall branch, and even more swiftly a crystalline fruit, rivaling the morning sun, refracting the light. Behold, she had grown roots, difficult to discover down in the dark of history, deep in the solid knowledge of earth. And the daughters of humankind saw and reveled in their roots. This is the story of this book, a history, long and diverse, of women thinkers and their thought. It will become a legacy for all who study it, a legacy that Heloi"se, Marie de Gournay, Sor Juana Ines de Ia Cruz, and Judith Sargent Murray among many women philosophers assured by composing lists of the names of women little acknowledged century after century. While the Hannah Arendt's, Susanne K.

Author : John Joseph Lalor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105189591

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Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political History of the United States by John Joseph Lalor Pdf

Author : Daniel Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521571722

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The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries by Daniel Power Pdf

The twelfth-century borderlands of the duchy of Normandy formed the cockpit for dynastic rivalries between the kings of England and France. This 2004 book examines how the political divisions between Normandy and its neighbours shaped the communities of the Norman frontier. It traces the region's history from the conquest of Normandy in 1106 by Henry I of England, to the duchy's annexation in 1204 by the king of France, Philip Augustus, and its incorporation into the Capetian kingdom. It explores the impact of the frontier upon princely and ecclesiastical power structures, customary laws, and noble strategies such as marriage, patronage and suretyship. Particular attention is paid to the lesser aristocracy as well as the better known magnates, and an extended appendix reconstructs the genealogies of thirty-three prominent frontier lineages. The book sheds light upon the twelfth-century French aristocracy, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of medieval political frontiers.