Author: House of HABSBURGPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The History of the Imperial & Royal Families of Austria & Bourbon, Trac'd Down from Their Original, to this Present Time ... By an Impartial Hand
Author: House of HABSBURGThe History of the Imperial & Royal Families of Austria & Bourbon, Trac'd Down from Their Original, to This Present Time. with an Account of Their ... Several Pretensions to the Crown of Spain. by an Impartial Hand
Author: Impartial HandPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379363262
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T131189 'The publisher to the reader' signed: H. E. With four final contents leaves. London: printed for R. Boroughs, and J. Baker; and sold by J. Woodward, and J. Morphew, 1708. [8],424, [8]p.; 8°
The History of the Imperial and Royal Families of Austrie and Bourbon, Trac'd Down from Their Original, to this Present Time... and of Their Siveral Pretensions to the Crown of Spain By an Impartial Hand
Author: The History of the Imperial & Royal Families of Austria & Bourbon
Author: Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
The Ruin of a Princess
Author: Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Angoulême (duchesse d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Monarchy Transformed
Author: Robert von FriedeburgPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316510247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
"Until the 1960s, it was widely assumed that in Western Europe the 'New Monarchy' propelled kingdoms and principalities onto a modern nation-state trajectory. John I of Portugal (1358-1433), Charles VII (1403-1461) and Louis XI (1423-1483) of France, Henry VII and Henry VIII of England (1457-1509, 1509-1553), Isabella of Castile (1474-1504) and Ferdinand of Aragon (1479-1516) were, by improving royal administration, by bringing more continuity to communication with their estates and by introducing more regular taxation, all seen to have served that goal. In this view, princes were assigned to the role of developing and implementing the sinews of state as a sovereign entity characterized by the coherence of its territorial borders and its central administration and government. They shed medieval traditions of counsel and instead enforced relations of obedience toward the emerging 'state'."--Provided by publisher.
History for Ready Reference, from the Best Historians, Biographers, and Specialists: El Dorado-Greaves
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
Author: Murray Newton RothbardPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164776
Category : Austrian school of economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description