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Princely Funerals in Europe, 1400-1700
Funerals were among the most extravagant princely ceremonies in Europe. At the end of the Middle Ages, they were grandiose affairs, carefully recorded, bringing together the emotions of both Court and People. The Renaissance heightened their effect, adding surprising elements borrowed from an Antiquity which was largely re-invented. The seventeenth century introduced ephemeral displays, elaborately constructed castrum doloris, dressed up with lavish facades and interior designs which transformed these sanctuaries into theatrical funeral pyres. Historians, anthropologists, and political scientists have long been interested in this subject, as can be seen from Ralph Giesey's celebrated work Le...
Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment
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.
Versailles ou la figure du roi
Avant d'être érigé par les historiens d'art comme le chef-d'oeuvre du génie classique français, puis de devenir, pour le tourisme international, une attraction incontournable, Versailles fut d'abord un instrument de gouvernement : défi jeté par Louis XIV à la face des puissances qui jusqu'alors menaient le jeu européen, en même temps que manifeste du régime qu'il achevait de mettre en place, la monarchie absolue. C'est à cette lecture politique que procède Gérard Sabatier, professeur d'histoire moderne à l'université Pierre Mendès France de Grenoble, en analysant les ensembles signifiants de la création louis-quatorzienne (jardins, grands appartements, escalier des Ambassad...
¿ Louis XIV espagnol ?
Cet ouvrage traite des héritages espagnols à la cour de France au temps de Louis XIV. Il s'interroge sur les notions d'héritage, de tradition, de réception et de rejet compris comme stratégies de pouvoir dans le cadre de la construction des Etats modernes
Versailles ou la disgrâce d'Apollon
Versailles ou la disgrâce d'Apollon entend briser l'image convenue mais fausse de palais du Soleil que Versailles n'a jamais été. Le mythe d'Apollon se déploie dans les jardins du premier Versailles, ses statues et ses fontaines, comme dans ses éblouissantes fêtes de nuit. Mais c'est le portrait du roi qui figure sous le mode de l'énigme dans les salons des Grands Appartements ; quant à la galerie des Glaces, il s'agit de l'héroïsation du prince, devenu maître de l'Europe. Cette imagerie jubilatoire produite pendant les vingt premières années du règne de Louis XIV demande aujourd'hui - comme elle demandait alors - décryptage. C'est un autre discours qui est tenu dans les trent...
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV
Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned by Louis XIV (1638-1715) to document his reign for posterity. The Sun King's image-makers based their prediction of how future historians would interpret the material remains of their culture on contemporary antiquarian methods, creating new works of art as artifacts for a future time. The need for such items to function as historical evidence led to many pictorial developments, and medals played a central role in this. Coin-like in form but not currency, the medal was the consummate antiquarian object, made in imitation of ancient coins used to s...
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France
This is a study of the domestic application of armed coercion during the reign of Louis XIV. It examines the coercive aspects of tax collection, the royal response to tax revolts, and the use of force to convert the king’s Protestant subjects and to wage a devastating counterinsurgency campaign against Protestant rebels in the mountains and plains of Languedoc. Relying heavily on archival sources, the study demonstrates that both the coercive inclination of Louis XIV and the coercive capabilities of the French army have been overstated. This raises questions about some common assumptions regarding the role of the army in the projection of state power and its contribution to the process of state formation in Early Modern France.
A Revolution in Taste
This book traces the development of modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking from their roots in the Ancien Regime. Pinkard examines the interplay of material culture, social developments, medical theory, and Enlightenment thought in the development of French cooking, which culminated in the creation of a distinct culture of food and drink.
From the Royal to the Republican Body
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy mastered subjects' minds by disciplining the body through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The last essays in the volume focus on the unmaking of the king's body and the substitution of a new, republican body. Throughout, the authors explore how race and gender shaped the body politic under the Bourbons and during the Revolution. This compelling study expands our conception of state power and demonstrates that seemingly apolitical activities like the performing arts, dress and ritual, contribute to the state's hegemony. From the Royal to the Republican Body will be an essential resource for students and scholars of history, literature, music, dance and performance studies, gender studies, art history, and political theory.
