Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-century France
Author: Malcolm Quainton
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780907310693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text in English with some contributions in French.
Author: Malcolm Quainton
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780907310693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text in English with some contributions in French.
Author: Janine Garrisson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780312126124
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780199242887
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.
Author: Margaret Shewring
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1349197343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195070132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study focuses on the popular religious fanaticism and hatred caused by the religious conflicts of 16th-century France, particularly the St Bartholomew's Day massacres of 1572. It uses an array of sources to examine the violence which escalated during this period.
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-05
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9004461817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An innovative analysis of the representational strategies that constructed Catherine de’ Medici and sought to explain her behaviour and motivations.
Author: Neil Kenny
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1472521358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil war in France; the French language's transformation into an instrument for advanced abstract thought. This book introduces this vibrant literature and thought via an apparent paradox. Most writers were profoundly concerned to improve life in the here-and-now - socially, politically, morally, spiritually. Yet they often tried to do so by making detours, in their writing, to other times and places: antiquity; heaven and hell; the hidden recesses of Nature, the cosmos, or the future; the remote location of an absent loved one; the newly 'discovered' Americas.The point was to show readers that the only way to live in the here-and-now was to connect it to larger realities - cosmic, spiritual, and historical.
Author: Jennifer Nevile
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0253351537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the Baroque
Author: Gregory P. Haake
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 900444081X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it.