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Author : Paola Bianchi,Karin Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107147706
This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
Author : PAOLA BIANCHI;KARIN E. WOLFE.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : British
ISBN : 1108524494
This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136836367
First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour. The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.
Author : Haroldo A. Guízar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030459314
This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education. The school is distinguished for being an Enlightenment project, one of its founders publishing an article on it in the Encyclopédie in 1755. Its curriculum broke completely with the Latin pedagogy of the dominant Jesuit system, while adapting the legacy of seventeenth-century riding academies. Its status touches on the nature of absolutism, as it was conceived to glorify the Bourbon dynasty in a similar way to the girls’ school at Saint Cyr and the Invalides. It was also a dispensary of royal charity calculated to ally the nobility more closely to royal interests through military service. In the army, its proofs of nobility were the model for the much debated 1781 Ségur decree, often described as a notable cause of the French Revolution.
Author : Stefano Villani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197587737
"The first Italian translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made in 1608 by William Bedell (the chaplain to James I's ambassador in Venice) with the help of Fulgenzio Micanzio and Paolo Sarpi. This translation was part of an English propaganda plan to instigate a schism in the Church of Venice, at a time of conflict between the court of Rome and the Venetian Republic. This chapter reconstructs the relationships between Sarpi and Micanzio and the English embassy in Venice. As far as we know, Bedell's translation remained a manuscript with no known copies extant"--
Author : Anna Marie Roos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780198830061
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : PURD:32754068891187
Jeremy Black builds up a vivid and often amusing picture of the travel experiences of the aristocracy before the age of mass tourism. The British Abroad describes travel experiences and the social customs and traditions of those early tourists.
Author : Charlotte R. Potts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108845281
Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.
Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020504
A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.
Author : Pascal Arnaud,Simon Keay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108486224
The first in-depth analysis of the epigraphic evidence for the societies of the ports of the Roman Mediterranean.
Author : Graeme Barker,Tom Rasmussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009229999
In the Footsteps of the Etruscans describes the archaeology of the countryside within a ten km radius of the small town of Tuscania near Rome, throwing light on the unrecorded lives of the generations of farmers and shepherds who have lived there. What was the character of prehistoric settlement prior to Etruscan urbanization? How did urbanization shape the lives of the 'ordinary Etruscans' working the land, hardly ever addressed in Etruscan archaeology? What was the impact on these people of being absorbed into the expanding Roman empire and its globalised economic structures? How did the empire's collapse and the subsequent emergence of the nucleated medieval village affect Tuscania's rural population? The project's 7500-year 'archaeological history', from the first farmers to those grappling with globalisation today, contributes eloquently to our understanding of how Mediterranean peoples have constantly shaped their landscape, and been shaped by it.
Author : John Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009415378
A comprehensive survey of the material culture of ninth-century Rome, drawing together disparate strands of evidence.
Author : L. Bosman,I. P. Haynes,P. Liverani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108839761
The first inter-disciplinary study to examine the construction and development of the world's first cathedral from its origins to 1600.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0300099770
For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important symbol of social status. Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of such early tourists' interest. In this book, historian Jeremy Black recreates the actual tourist experiences of those who travelled to Italy on a Grand Tour. Relying on the private diaries and personal letters of travellers, rather than on the self-conscious accounts of literary travellers who wrote for wider audiences, the book presents an authentic picture of how British tourists experienced Italy, its landscapes, women, food, music, Catholicism, and more. illustrations, the book highlights the discrepancy between the idealised view of the Grand Tour and its reality: what people were meant to do was not necessarily what they did, what the guide books described as splendid was not always so perceived. Black quotes British visitors as they reflect on their trips, and he discusses what their Italian experiences meant to them. And he considers the intriguing effects of tourism on British culture during this most exciting of centuries.
Author : John Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108834582
A history of Rome in the critical eighth century CE focusing on the evidence of material culture and archaeology.