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Author : Paul Sonnino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674043862
Sonnino examines the diplomatic negotiations that took place in Westphalia from 1643 to 1648, which brought an end to the agonizing civil and religious conflict of the Thirty Years' War.
Author : David Parrott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198797463
David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the Fronde - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and re-entered France at the head of an army. The political and military crisis that followed convulsed the nation, and revived the ebbing fortunes of a revolt led by the cousin of the young Louis XIV, the prince de Cond�. The study follows in detail the unfolding political and military events of this year, showing how military success and failure swung between the two sides through the campaign, driving both cardinal and prince into a progressive intensification of the conflict, while simultaneously fuelling a quest for compromise and settlement which nonetheless eluded all the negotiators' efforts. The consequences were devastating for France, as civil war smashed into a fragile ecosystem that was already reeling under the impact of the global cooling of the 'Little Ice Age'. 1652 raises questions about established interpretations of French state-building, the rule of cardinal Mazarin and his predecessor, Richelieu, and their contribution to creating the 'absolutism' of Louis XIV.
Author : Paul Sonnino
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442253643
The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask? Could he possibly have been the twin brother of the Sun King? Like every other serious scholar, intrepid historian Paul Sonnino discounts this theory, instead taking the reader along on his adventures to uncover the truth behind this ancient enigma. Exploring the hidden, squalid side of the lavish court of France, the author uncovers the full spectrum of French society, from humble servants to wealthy merchants to kings and queens. All had self-interested reasons to hold their secrets close until one humble valet named Eustache Dauger was arrested and jailed for decades, simply because he knew too much and opened his mouth at the wrong time. Presenting his dramatic solution to the mystery, Sonnino convincingly shows that no one will be able to tell the story of the man in the iron mask without taking into account the staggering array of evidence he has uncovered over the course of decades.
Author : William Dana Orcutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Book design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128066482
Author : Robert O. Lindsay,John Neu
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J : Scarecrow Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015014330396
Author : Edward Smedley,Hugh James Rose,Henry John Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : PRNC:32101078163233
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900058144
Author : Edward Smedley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119077597
Author : C. A. Patrides,Raymond B. Waddington
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0719008166
Author : Edward Smedley,Hugh James Rose,Henry John Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : WISC:89015237878
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079607738
Author : Todd Olson,Nicolas Poussin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300093381
Nicolas Poussin, perhaps the most famous French painter of the seventeenth century, lived and worked for many years in Rome. Yet he remained deeply engaged with cultural and political transformations occurring in France, argues Todd R Olson in this original exploration of Poussin's paintings, their production, and their reception. Poussin's references to ancient literature and sculpture addressed a political elite -- the Robe nobility -- whose humanist education in classical antiquity equipped them to relate Greek and Roman history to contemporary events and to deploy ancient precedents in legalistic and political arguments. When the French civil war known as the Fronde erupted in the middle of the seventeenth century, the paintings that Poussin exported to France responded directly in both subject and style to the crisis in monarchical authority and the disenfranchisement of his Robe patrons. Olson demonstrates that Poussin's association with a disgraced political group, his loss of official support, and his exile in Italy imbued his history paintings with a symbolic weight. The painter's audience considered the hardearned pleasures of his restrained, difficult pictorial style a benchmark of integrity as well as a criticism of the Regency's indiscriminate collecting practices and taste for foreign luxury. Poussin transformed the easel painting -- its making and collection -- into an expression of cultural and political commitments binding a community. Olson's fresh insights reveal the importance of this painter's work to a learned and powerful French constituency at a critical moment in French history and demonstrate that Poussin's famously timeless style was far more responsive tohistorical contingencies than has been previously recognized.
Author : Edgar Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044035965896
Author : Glenda Sluga,Carolyn James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317497028
Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 explores the role of women as agents of diplomacy in the trans-Atlantic world since the early modern age. Despite increasing evidence of their involvement in political life across the centuries, the core historical narrative of international politics remains notably depleted of women. This collection challenges this perspective. Chapters cover a wide range of geographical contexts, including Europe, Russia, Britain and the United States, and trace the diversity of women’s activities and the significance of their contributions. Together these essays open up the field to include a broader interpretation of diplomatic work, such as the unofficial avenues of lobbying, negotiation and political representation that made women central diplomatic players in the salons, courts and boudoirs of Europe. Through a selection of case studies, the book throws into new perspective the operations of political power in local and national domains, bridging and at times reconceptualising the relationship of the private to the public. Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 is essential reading for all those interested in the history of diplomacy and the rise of international politics over the past five centuries.
Author : Keith Cameron,Elizabeth Woodrough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038140417
A collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, by leading English and French scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework of a powerful elite between the early 1600s and the end of Louis XIV's reign.
