Sacral Kingship In Bourbon France

Author : Sean Heath
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350173200

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Sacral Kingship in Bourbon France by Sean Heath Pdf

Historians of the ancien régime have long been interested in the relationship between religion and politics, and yet many issues remain contentious, including the question of sacral monarchy. Scholars are divided over how - and, indeed, if - it actually operated. With its nuanced analysis of the cult of Saint Louis, covering a vast swathe of French history from the Wars of Religion through the zenith of absolute monarchy under Louis XIV to the French Revolution and Restoration, Sacral Kingship in Bourbon France makes a major contribution to this debate and to our overall understanding of France in this fascinating period. Saint Louis IX was the ancestor of the Bourbons and widely regarded as the epitome of good Christian kingship. As such, his cult and memory held a significant place in the political, religious, and artistic culture of Bourbon France. However, as this book reveals, likenesses to Saint Louis were not only employed by royal flatterers but also used by opponents of the monarchy to criticize reigning kings. What, then, does Saint Louis' cult reveal about how monarchies fostered a culture of loyalty, and how did sacral monarchy interact with the dramatic religious, political and intellectual developments of this era? From manuscripts to paintings to music, Sean Heath skilfully engages with a vast array of primary source material and modern debates on sacral kingship to provide an enlightening and comprehensive analysis of the role of Saint Louis in early modern France.

Author : Ronald G. Asch
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383574

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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment by Ronald G. Asch Pdf

France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649. However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

Author : Julian Swann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : France
ISBN : 9780198788690

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Exile, Imprisonment, Or Death by Julian Swann Pdf

On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independentmilitary force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, asthe reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile without a trial or an opportunity tojustify their conduct, abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices, and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign.To explain that transformation, this volume examines the development of this new "politics of disgrace", why it emerged, how it was conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and his noble subjects, but also the greatcorporations of the realm and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which is to useshifting attitudes to the practice as a means of investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the French Revolution.

Author : Eric Nelson,Jonathan Wright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317107200

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Layered Landscapes by Eric Nelson,Jonathan Wright Pdf

This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.

Author : John C. Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015016614904

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Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship by John C. Rule Pdf

Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216954

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Rites of Power by Sean Wilentz Pdf

Rites of Power provides a sweeping overview of the symbolism of power from tenth-century France to modern Britain. Approaching their topic from an eclectic range of intellectual traditions, the authors turn the study of politics, social relations, and cultural creation into a single endeavor. The essays begin with three assumptions: that all societies are ordered and governed by "master fictions" (divine right, equality for all) which make political hierarchy appear natural; that political rhetoric includes nonverbal communication (royal portraits, statistics on crop yields); and that common rhetoric can mean different things to various segments of a culture ("states' rights" during the American Civil War). Societies studied include France and Spain in the Middle Ages, post-Revolutionary France, the modern British monarchy, tsarist Russia, colonial Virginia, and industrial Germany. The essays were selected to provide methodological as well as historical coverage; the result is a comprehensive treatment along the cutting edge of several disciplines. This book will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and art history.

Author : Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801445507

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The Making of Saint Louis by Marianne Cecilia Gaposchkin Pdf

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin reconstructs and analyzes the process that led to King Louis IX of France's canonization in 1297 and the consolidation and spread of his cult.

Author : Ralph E. Giesey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059282882

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Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries by Ralph E. Giesey Pdf

The common theme of these essays is the emergence of the modern state in late medieval and renaissance France. They examine, on the one hand, how the image of the king was enhanced in a variety of royal ceremonials as well as in the political writings of Jean Bodin and Cardin le Bret. The limits of the sovereign's authority, on the other hand, were forcefully enunciated in the works of François Hotman and Théodore de Bèze. The stability of the monarchy was maintained by the noblesse de robe, a new form of hereditary nobility that virtually owned the high judicial and administrative offices they held. The last two articles are devoted, first to the author's view of the concept of the French king's "two bodies" and second to the life of his mentor, Ernst H. Kantorowicz, who wrote the seminal work, The King's Two Bodies.

Author : Judith E. Bernstock
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39076002086465

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Poussin and French Dynastic Ideology by Judith E. Bernstock Pdf

This book reveals that many of Nicolas Poussin's most renowned mythological and biblical paintings were intended as celebrations of the Bourbon monarchy. It now becomes clear that Poussin, long considered the greatest painter of early modern France, was also preeminent in supporting Bourbon claims and in establishing an early, multilayered iconography of absolutism in French painting. His rhetorical techniques for exalting the Bourbons correspond to the endeavours of Louis XIII and Richelieu in exploiting the arts to create a public image of dynastic continuity. Using an approach of cultural history, this book shows that Poussin's art emerges as a fascinating and even witty mirror of seventeenth-century French culture.

Author : Ralph E. Giesey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:49015000221201

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The Juristic Basis of Dynastic Right to the French Throne by Ralph E. Giesey Pdf

Author : Sandra Hindman,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
Publisher : Mary & Leigh Block Gallery
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015052476143

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Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age by Sandra Hindman,Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Pdf

How medieval manuscripts were understood in the 19th and 20th centuries is the basis for this volume co-written by four art historians; Hindman (Northwestern U.), Michael Camille (U. of Chicago), Rowan Watson (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Nina Rowe (Block Museum, Northwestern U.). The attitudes

Author : Dale K. Van Kley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400857289

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The Damiens Affair and the Unraveling of the ANCIEN REGIME, 1750-1770 by Dale K. Van Kley Pdf

This book examines an unsuccessful assassination attempt against Louis XV of France and the trial of his assailant, Robert-Francois Damiens, revealing the beginnings of the French Revolution in the ecclesiastical controversies that dominated the Damiens affair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Dale Van Kley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Jansenists
ISBN : 0608300853

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The Jansenists and the Expulsion of the Jesuits from France, 1757-1765 by Dale Van Kley Pdf

Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139789738

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Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792 by Ambrogio A. Caiani Pdf

The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy.

Author : Geoffrey C. Goble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216097181

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The History of Buddhism by Geoffrey C. Goble Pdf

One of the world's most popular religions, Buddhism is also one of the most misunderstood. This reference overviews misconceptions related to Buddhism and reveals the truths behind the myths. Buddhism is practiced by millions of adherents around the world. Originating in ancient India, it spread throughout Asia and then to the West, and it exists in multiple traditions. Despite its popularity, it is also the subject of many misconceptions. This book examines those misconceptions along with the historical truths behind the myths. The book begins with an introduction that places Buddhism in its historical and cultural contexts. This is followed by chapters on particular erroneous beliefs related to the religion. Chapters explore whether Buddhism is a singular tradition, if it is a religion or a philosophical system, if it is rational and scientific, whether the Buddha was an ordinary human, and other topics. Each chapter summarizes the misconception and how it spread, along with what we now believe to be the underlying truth behind the falsehood. Quotations and excerpts from primary source documents provide evidence for the mistaken beliefs and the historical truths. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography.