Author: Pairs de France (FRANCE)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Requeste des pairs de France, présentée au Roy le 22 Février 1717
Author: Pairs de France (FRANCE)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy
Author: Harold A. EllisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Suspicious of the French monarchy, and scornful of the new elites that served it, Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658–1722) has been considered one of the Old Regime's paradigmatic aristocratic reactionaries, a founder of modern racist theory. Some scholars, however, have admired his "constitutionalism" and judged him a progenitor of an enlightened aristocratic liberalism now commonly held to have been a major force in shaping the ideology of the French Revolution. In a close contextual study of the writings of this enigmatic, pivotal thinker, Harold A. Ellis persuasively rethinks both images of Boulainvilliers, finding him a controversialist who interpreted French history as a self-consciously political writer seeking to address an emergent political public.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher: William Clowes & Sons, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Perilous Performances
Author: Katherine CrawfordPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674029989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France. The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine de Medicis presented herself as dutiful mother, devoted widow, and benign peacemaker, masking her political power. In subsequent regencies, Marie de Medicis and Anne of Austria developed strategies that naturalized a regendering of political structures. They succeeded so thoroughly that Philippe d'Orleans found that this rhetoric at first supported but ultimately undermined his authority. Regencies demonstrated that power did not necessarily work from the places, bodies, or genders in which it was presumed to reside. While broadening the terms of monarchy, regencies involving complex negotiations among child kings, queen mothers, and royal uncles made clear that the state continued regardless of the king--a point not lost on the Revolutionaries or irrelevant to the fate of Marie-Antoinette.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: Bible advocate to Boycott
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1286
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Author: