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Louis of Granada
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Livre, pouvoirs et société à Paris au XVIIe siècle (1598-1701). Tome 1 / Préface de Roger Chartier
Au XVIIe siècle, Paris est le plus grand centre d’édition de l’Europe. Interprétation globale d’un phénomène touchant à la fois à l’économie, à la politique et à la vie intellectuelle et religieuse, ce livre se veut une explication du mouvement du siècle et de l’esprit classique. Il fait revivre dans ce but le petit monde du livre, mais aussi celui des auteurs et de leurs lecteurs. L’auteur montre comment la Contre-Réforme triomphante ouvre d’abord au livre un immense marché. Une crise de surproduction y succède. L’Etat réagit en contrôlant de plus en plus étroitement la presse. Tel est le climat dans lequel se développe la littérature classique qui, à l’image du système monarchique, prétend à la recherche idéale d’une forme de stabilité et de perfection. Mais il est impossible d’entraver la liberté de la presse, l’opposition au système monarchique se réfugie alors hors de France, en Hollande notamment. Et c’est là que se prépare l’avenir.
Memory & Oblivion
Memory is a subject that recently has attracted many scholars and readers not only in the general historical sciences, but also in the special field of art history. However, in this book, in which more than 130 papers given at the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam) 1996 have been compiled, Memory is also juxtaposed to its counterpart, Oblivion, thus generating extra excitement in the exchange of ideas. The papers are presented in eleven sections, each of which is devoted to a different aspect of memory and oblivion, ranging from purely material aspects of preservation, to social phenomena with regard to art collecting, from the memory of the art historian to workshop practices, from art in antiquity, to the newest media, from Buddhist iconography to the Berlin Wall. The book addresses readers in the field of history, history of art and psychology.
Creating Christian Granada
Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand and sixteenth-century Spanish imperialism in the Americas on th...
Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.
