The Fabrication Of Louis Xiv

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300059434

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The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke Pdf

Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the relationship between art and power. Images of Louis XIV included hundreds of oil paintings and engravings, three-hundred-odd medals struck to commemorate the major events of the reign, sculptures, and bronzes, as well as plays, ballets (in which the king himself sometimes appeared on stage), operas, odes, sermons, official newspapers and histories, fireworks, fountains, and tapestries. Drawing on an analysis of these representations as well as on surviving documentary sources, Peter Burke shows the conscious attempt to "invent" the image of the king and reveals how the supervision of the royal image was entrusted to a commitee, the so-called small academy. This book is not only a fascinating chronological study of the mechanics of the image-making of a king over the course of a seventy-year reign but is also an investigation into the genre of cultural construction. Burke discusses the element of propaganda implicit in image-making, the manipulation of seventeenth-century media of communication (oral, visual, and textual) and their codes (literary and artistic), and the intended audience and its response. He concludes by comparing and contrasting Louis's public image with that of other rulers ranging from Augustus to contemporary American presidents.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 199?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:474245827

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The Fabrication of Louis XIV. by Peter Burke Pdf

Author : Dr Robert Wellington
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472460332

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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV by Dr Robert Wellington Pdf

This revisionary study provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638–1715) to document his reign for posterity. Robert Wellington uncovers a numismatic sensibility throughout the iconography of Louis XIV. He looks beyond the standard political reading of the works of art made to document the Sun King’s history, to argue that they are the results of a creative process wedded to antiquarianism, an intellectual culture that provided a model for the production of history in the grand siècle.

Author : Clare Haru Crowston
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822326663

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Fabricating Women by Clare Haru Crowston Pdf

DIVA study of the seamstresses of late 17th and 18th-century France, who developed a quintessentially feminine occupation that became a major factor in the urban economy./div

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745665849

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The Fortunes of the Courtier by Peter Burke Pdf

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Author : Hall Bjørnstad
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226803838

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The Dream of Absolutism by Hall Bjørnstad Pdf

Introduction. The problem with absolutism ; Beyond mere propaganda ; Approaching absolutism differently: royal glory and royal exemplarity ; The dream of absolutism -- The grammar of absolutism. The dream of a book like no other ; Taking Louis XIV's Mémoires seriously ; Absolutism, explained to a child: "The first and most important part of our entire politics" ; The utility of "These Mémoires" ; The paradoxes of absolutist exemplarity ; Conclusion: "So many ghastly examples" -- Mirrors of absolutism. Introduction: Our body in this space ; An age of mirrors ; A gallery celebrating greatness ; Making the king see what he felt ; A mirror for one ; In lieu of conclusion: Mirrors for a future without a past -- Absolutist absurdities. Exhibit A: The royal historiographer and the unparalleled greatness of Louis XIV ; Exhibit B: Absolutism from the cabinet of fairies to the cabinet of the king ; Conclusion: Seven theses on the dream of absolutism.

Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 1789–1792 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 : Claire Farago,Janis Bell,Carlo Vecce
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1371 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004353787

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The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (2 vols.) by Claire Farago,Janis Bell,Carlo Vecce Pdf

This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.

Author : William Beik
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0312227434

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Louis XIV and Absolutism by William Beik Pdf

This unique collection of documents with commentary explores the meaning of absolute monarchy by examining how Louis XIV of France became one of Europe's most famous and successful rulers. The documents, newly translated and carefully selected for their readability, examine the problems of the Fronde, Colbert's grasp of the economic and fiscal dimensions of the kingdom, the taming of the rural nobility, the interaction of royal ministers and provincial authorities, the repression of Jansenists and Protestants, popular rebellions, and royal image-making.

Author : Tony Claydon,Charles-Édouard Levillain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317103240

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Louis XIV Outside In by Tony Claydon,Charles-Édouard Levillain Pdf

Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered for the splendid baroque culture his reign ushered in, and his political achievements in wielding together a strong centralised French state; whereas in England, the Netherlands and other protestant states, his memory is that of an aggressive military tyrant and persecutor of non-Catholics. In order to try to break free of such parochial strictures, this volume builds upon the approach of scholars such as Ragnhild Hatton who have attempted to situate Louis’ legacy within broader, pan-European context. But where Hatton focused primarily on geo-political themes, Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis' neighbours in north west Europe. This broad geographical coverage demonstrates how images of Louis XIV were moulded by the polemical needs of people far from Versailles, and distorted from any French originals by the particular political and cultural circumstances of diverse nations. Because the French regime’s ability to control the public image of its leader was very limited, the collection highlights how - at least in the sphere of public presentation - his power was frequently denied, subverted, or appropriated to very different purposes, questioning the limits of his absolutism which has also been such a feature of recent work.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Perry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691219721

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Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville by Mary Elizabeth Perry Pdf

In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respectability--prostitutes, healers, visionaries, and other deviants who provoked the concern of a growing central government linked closely to the church. Focusing on Seville, the commercial capital of Habsburg Spain, Perry uses rich archival sources to document the economic and spiritual activity of women, and efforts made by civil and church authorities to control this activity, during a period of local economic change and religious turmoil. In analyzing such sources as art and literature from the period, women's writings, Inquisition records, and laws and regulations, Perry finds that social definitions of what it meant to be a woman or a man persisted due to their sanctification by religious ideas and their adaptation into political order. She describes the tension between gender ideals and actual conditions in women's lives, and shows how some women subverted the gender order by using a surprisingly wide variety of intellectual and physical strategies.

Author : Nicholas Dew
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199234844

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Orientalism in Louis XIV's France by Nicholas Dew Pdf

Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here produced books that would become sources used throughout the eighteenth century. Nicholas Dew places these scholars in their own context as members of the "republic of letters" in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.

Author : Steven Wood Collins
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468927894

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Puramore - The Lute of Pythagoras by Steven Wood Collins Pdf

General George Smythe, Team Alpha, Nagual socereer and quantum computer battle Wingtip, an avatar of China's first emperor, and spirit forces at his command to save mankind's collective soul from extinction. In order to prevail against their mortal and immortal foe, they must acquire Puramore in order to overcome Wingtip's spiritual advantage. If you enjoyed reading Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol", you'll also enjoy the mystery and intrigue surrounding the Puramore talisman.

Author : Andrew Mansfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : France
ISBN : 1526144492

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Ideas of Monarchical Reform by Andrew Mansfield Pdf

This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the theory in the two countries and the exchange between them. After the Glorious Revolution (1688) Britain had rejected James II's absolutist pretensions in favour of a monarch that governed through Parliament, while in France Louis XIV ruled a seemingly absolute state. Yet in the first three decades of that century, the growing impetus towards mixed government in Britain influenced the political theory of its long-standing enemy. Shaped by experiences and ideologies of the seventeenth century, thinkers in both states expressed a desire to stimulate change by integrating past wisdom with modern knowledge. A Scottish Jacobite émigré living in Paris, Ramsay employed a synthesis of British and French principles to promote a Stuart restoration. He offered a daring vision of European co-operation that would allow Britain to claim its place as the 'capital of the universe.' Adapting a range of philosophies, including his mentor Archbishop Fénelon's opposition to Louis XIV, Ramsay created a compelling image of the future that grappled with key political ideas extant in Britain and France. Mansfield reveals that Ramsay was an important intellectual conduit for the two countries, whose contribution to the history of political thought has been greatly under appreciated. With extensive analysis of Britain and France between the 1660s and 1730s in Britain and France, this book will be of interest to scholars, students and those with an interest in the history of political thought, religious, intellectual, political and cultural history, as well as the early Enlightenment.

Author : Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300107528

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Shopping in the Renaissance by Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch Pdf

Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is in the 21st century. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period. Drawing on a detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace. Thereafter, Welch looks at the impact these attitudes had on the developing urban spaces of Renaissance cities, before turning to more transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions and lotteries. In the third section, she examines the consumers themselves, asking how the mental, verbal and visual images of the market shaped the business of buying and selling. Finally, the book explores two seemingly very different types of commodities - antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.