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Author: Paola Bianchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1107147700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published:
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9781108524490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an international publication exploring early modern cultural exchange between Britain and Savoy, including political, diplomatic, social, religious and artistic trends.
Author: Rosemary Sweet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-04
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1107020506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.
Author: Haroldo A. Guízar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-24
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 3030459314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Edward Chaney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1317973666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.
Author: Julian Hoppit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1107015251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.
Author: Stefano Villani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0197587739
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0198830068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780300099775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
