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Author: Jeroen Duindam
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9004206221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents new research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. It addresses the interactions of rulers and and elites at court, as well as the multiple connections between court, capital, and realm.
Author: Ryan Calais Cameron
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-04-08
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 1350419400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Inspired by Ntozake Shange's essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with the West End production at the Apollo Theatre in March 2023.
Author: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300106978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization and propaganda. While palaces, pictures, and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Being both personal and visible, the right costume at the right time could transform and define a monarch’s reputation. Many royal leaders have known this, from Louis XIV to Catherine the Great and from Napoleon I to Princess Diana. This intriguing book explores how rulers have sought to control their image through their appearance. Mansel shows how individual styles of dress throw light on the personalities of particular monarchs, on their court system, and on their ambitions. The book looks also at the economics of the costume industry, at patronage, at the etiquette involved in mourning dress, and at the act of dressing itself. Fascinating glimpses into the lives of European monarchs and contemporary potentates reveal the intimate connection between power and the way it is packaged.
Author: Anne Bailey
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-08
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781521246917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The King will decide what is treason..."These are words Catherine Carey has heard before, and they've always led to the block. As a girl, she saw her aunt, Anne Boleyn, go to the scaffold. Now she might see yet another Queen suffer the same fate. She has to decide. To serve her mistress would be treason, to abandon her would mean the doom of a good lady. She knows her duty is to serve her family, but what about her heart and her conscience? In a world where any indiscretion can lead to death, where competition corrupts any friendship, and where your family is ready to abandon you, Catherine must stay ahead of the ever-changing rules. The King is becoming a monster, ready to turn on those he claimed to love. As a lady-in-waiting, Catherine sees first hand the danger of the Tudor court. She finds her dreams changing from grandeur to the peaceful existence of a country life. However, when you are part of the great Howard family, the illegitimate daughter of the King, and cousin to the future Queen of England, there is no place for you but court.
Author: Anne R Bailey
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-18
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tragic tale of the Lady Jane Grey - the Nine Day Queen is well known. Sentenced to die as martyr her story would become legendary. But the tale of her mother is not so well-known.She was an ambitious woman who survived in turbulent times and sought to claim as much power for herself and her family as she could. History does not always look kindly on those who failed and she is no exception. Eclipsed first by her beautiful mother and then by her daughter - Frances Grey became known as a cruel mother. She would be doomed to obscurity. But before the fall there was her rise...This is the story of her beginnings. Part of the Royal Court Series which can be read as a standalone novel. Previously published under the name: To Crown a Rose
Author: Hamish M. Scott
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 019959726X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of "early modernity" itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to "Cultures and Power", opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.
Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-08
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0521885272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.
Author: Baldassare Castiglione
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-08-28
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781387895397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of the Courtier, Baldassare Castiglione's classic account of Renaissance court life, offers profound insight into the refined behavior which defined the era's ruling class. The courtly customs and manners of Italy to a great extent characterized the Renaissance, which elevated art and expression to new heights. Baldassare Castiglione published this book with the intention of chronicling the manners, customs and traditions which underpinned how courtiers, nobles, and their servants, behaved. Although ostensibly a book of etiquette and good conduct, Castiglione's treatise carries enormous historical value. He derived his observations directly from the many gatherings and receptions conducted by society's elite. Conversations with the officials, diplomats and nobility of the era further enhanced the accuracy of this book, imbuing it with an authenticity seldom seen elsewhere.
Author: Lucy Worsley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-08-24
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0802719872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 18th-century portrait of the palace most recognized as an official home of several British royal family members focuses on the Hanover family during the reigns of George I and II, describing the intrigue, ostentatious fashions and politicking that marked court life. By the author of Cavalier.
Author: Anna M. F. Jackson
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781851776474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe word 'maharaja' - literally 'great king' - conjures up a vision of splendour and magnificence. This book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.
