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Sophie Nicholls : Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century, this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual history of the Early Modern era. Sophie (...)
Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century, this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual history of the Early Modern era. Sophie (...)
Bronwyn Reddan : Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an (...)
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an (...)
Kathrina Ann LaPorta : Performative Polemic. Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France
Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political (...)
Performative Polemic is the first literary historical study to analyze the “war of words” unleashed in the pamphlets denouncing Louis XIV’s absolute monarchy between 1667 and 1715. As conflict erupted between the French ruler and his political (...)
Tracy Adams, Christine Adams : The Creation of the French Royal Mistress. From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry
Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the (...)
Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the (...)
Mark Bryant : Queen of Versailles. Madame de Maintenon, First Lady of Louis XIV’s France
An intriguing portrait of the life and court career of the Sun King’s secret wife, Françoise d’Aubigné. The rise to power of Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. (...)
An intriguing portrait of the life and court career of the Sun King’s secret wife, Françoise d’Aubigné. The rise to power of Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. (...)
