Author: Peter van der PloegPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Princely Patrons
Author: Peter van der PloegPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Author: Angma Dey JhalaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Princes and Princely Culture
Author: Martin GosmanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004135727
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The essays in this volume discuss princely courts north of the Alps and Pyrenees between 1450-1650 as focal points for products of medieval and renaissance culture such as literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts and devotional practice.
Princes as Patrons
Author: Mark L. EvansPublisher: Merrell
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
With a foreword by Prince Charles gracing the first study of art collected byive Princes of Wales, this lavishly illustrated volume accompanied anxhibit of the same name at The National Museum & Gallery in Cardiff helduly 25-November 8, 1998. Some 250 paintings, drawings, and objects d'artrom the Royal Collection not only reflect masters fr
Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Volume 1
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004253521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This book contains thirteen essays on European princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650. Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, and even forms of devotional practice – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This volume, the first of two concentrating on the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, has essays on selected courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees: the court of Burgundy under the Valois dukes, that of France under Catherine de Médicis and of Henry IV, that of Scotland under Jameses III, IV, V, VI and of Mary, Queen of Scots, that of Margaret of Austria at Mechelen, of Scandinavia, of Heidelberg under Frederick the Victorious and Philip the Upright, and that of Maximilian I. Contributors include: Gayle K. Brunelle, Dagmar Eichberger, Annette Finley-Croswhite, Martin Gosman, Margriet Hoogvliet, Michael Lynch, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Olaf Mörke, Jan-Dirk Müller, Rita Schlusemann, Alan Swanson, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Janet Hadley Williams.
Courts, Patrons and Poets
Author: David MateerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300082258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This sequence of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, explores the Renaissance from the interdisciplinary perspective of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music and political thought.
Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats
Author: Steffen HertogPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145753X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic stagnation. The results have been puzzling for both area specialists and political economists: Saudi institutions have not failed across the board, as theorists of the "rentier state" would predict, nor have they achieved the all-encompassing modernization the regime has touted. Instead, the kingdom has witnessed a bewildering mélange of thorough failures and surprising successes. Hertog argues that it is traits peculiar to the Saudi state that make sense of its uneven capacities. Oil rents since World War II have shaped Saudi state institutions in ways that are far from uniform. Oil money has given regime elites unusual leeway for various institutional experiments in different parts of the state: in some cases creating massive rent-seeking networks deeply interwoven with local society; in others large but passive bureaucracies; in yet others insulated islands of remarkable efficiency. This process has fragmented the Saudi state into an uncoordinated set of vertically divided fiefdoms. Case studies of foreign investment reform, labor market nationalization and WTO accession reveal how this oil-funded apparatus enables swift and successful policy-making in some policy areas, but produces coordination and regulation failures in others.
Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Author: Angma Dey JhalaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Investigating the aesthetics of the zenana – the female quarters of the Indic home or palace – this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture
Author: Jason GlennPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442604921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other. These 26 essays, written by accomplished scholars all trained at the University of California, Berkeley, reflect on medieval texts and the opportunities they present for exploration of the Middle Ages. Introduced in a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson (Harvard University), these essays present a textured picture of the medieval world and offer models for how to reflect fruitfully on medieval sources. To help orient the reader, three maps, the editor's introduction, and an index are provided.
Powerful Connections
Author: Peter William ShoemakerPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII explores the role of patronage in shaping French literary culture between 1614 and 1661 - a period that witnessed both the rise of the early modern state under Richelieu and the beginnings of modern literary culture in the salons and academies. It includes readings of texts by authors such as Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Theophile de Viau, Charles Sorel, and Pierre Corneille that reveal the personal side of political power and its impact upon literary practice.