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The World of André Le Nôtre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

The World of André Le Nôtre

But as Thierry Mariage makes clear in this detailed and lucid book, the garden style that Le Notre brought to perfection need not be seen in opposition to the later "English" one; rather, he claims, they represent two points along a continuum that exists between the natural and cultural worlds.

The Culture of Merit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Culture of Merit

A study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution

Constructing the Middle Ages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Constructing the Middle Ages

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Middle Ages provide important points of reference during the nation-building process in Luxembourg. This book deconstructs the traditional narrative of that period, with its function as a time of national origins and national heroes.

The Politics of Making Kinship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

The Politics of Making Kinship

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.

Historical Communities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Historical Communities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Historical Communities reveals the importance of urban history writing in early modern France, from the 1560s to the 1660s, both for individual towns and the French kingdom. Grounded in published and manuscript works, archival sources, correspondence, and research notes, the book demonstrates how historical traditions mattered to city inhabitants and how local elites combined historical narratives with social and political objectives. Numerous conflicts emerged, including debates regarding city origins, the early French Church, noble genealogies, and the memory of the French Wars of Religion. Simultaneously, provincial scholars maintained active contacts within the Republic of Letters, grounding local research and writing in developing erudite methodologies and making them integral to the ongoing process of forging a French historical identity.

The Dangers of Ritual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

The Dangers of Ritual

Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced by twentieth-century theories of ritual, often misinterpret medieval documents that ostensibly describe such events, in part because they fail to appreciate the intentions behind them. The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-c...

Alain Chartier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Alain Chartier

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Belle dame sans merci (Beautiful lady with no mercy) (1424) is not readily available in moden English translation elsewhere, making this an essential addition to any library with a medieval literature or French literature collection.

A New Method of Studying History, Geography, and Chronology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 614

A New Method of Studying History, Geography, and Chronology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1730
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1846
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  • Publisher: Unknown

List of members in v. 1, 3-10, 13, 15.

The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 792

The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-22
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The letters of Abelard and Heloise contain a vivid account of one of the most celebrated love affairs in the western world that raised questions about love, marriage, and religious life in the Middle Ages. This much needed new edition of the Latin text contains English translation, a full introduction, extensive annotation, and detailed indexes.