Internationale Bibliographie der Antiquariats-, Auktions- und Kunstkataloge
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 278
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Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2016-11-07
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1910634972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Walled Towns and the Shaping of France
Author: M. Wolfe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-08-31
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0230101127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the development of towns in France, taking into account military technology, physical geography, shifting regional networks tying urban communities together, and the emergence of new forms of public authority and civic life.
French books in print, anglais
Author: Electre
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 2148
ISBN-13: 9782765408475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mindful Hand
Author: Lissa Roberts
Publisher: Edita-The Publishing House of the Royal
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789069844831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough manual labour and theoretical invention might now seem separate ventures, history teaches us that they are closely linked processes. The Mindful Hand explores innovative areas of European society between the late Renaissance and the period of early industrialisation where the enterprise of knowledge and production relied on the most intimate connexions of thought and toil. This volume explains how philosophers and labourers collaborated in an environment where artisans and instrument-makers, administrators and entrepreneurs simultaneously pioneered technical change alongside knowledge formation. The essays gathered here help show how these projects were pursued together, yet why, in retrospect, the very categories of science and technology emerged as seemingly distinct endeavors.
A New Science
Author: Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780674048607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.
The Reality of Symbols
Author: Jan Baptist Bedaux
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Bedaux brings the discussion of meaning in northern painting back to the basics: the description of real objects, the evocation of everyday associations, the employment of standard visual metaphors, symbols and allegories. With the first publication of an eighteenth-century iconographical program drawn up by the Hague painter Mattheus Verheyden, he demonstrates the continued importance of allegory, that stepchild of iconography." -- Cover page 4.
Sex and Drugs Before Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Benjamin Roberts
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9089644024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSex and Drugs Before the Rock ’n’ Rollis a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This study reveals how these young men rebelled, breaking from previous generations: letting their hair grow long, wearing colorful clothing, drinking excessively, challenging city guards, being promiscuous, smoking, and singing lewd songs. Cogently argued, this study paints a compelling portrait of the youth culture of the Dutch Golden Age, at a time when the rising popularity of print made dissemination of new cultural ideas possible, while rising incomes and liberal attitudes created a generation of men behaving badly.
Italian and Spanish Sculpture
Author: Peggy Fogelman
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2002-12-26
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0892366893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe catalogue is abundantly illustrated, including multiple views of each sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.
Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
Author: Katherine Astbury
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-12
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 3319702084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the politics of legitimacy as they played out across Europe in response to Napoleon’s dramatic return to power in France after his exile to Elba in 1814. Napoleon had to re-establish his claim to power with initially minimal military resources. Moreover, as the rest of Europe united against him, he had to marshal popular support for his new regime, while simultaneously demanding men and money to back what became an increasingly inevitable military campaign. The initial return – known as ‘the flight of the eagle’ – gradually turned into a dogged attempt to bolster support using a range of mechanisms, including constitutional amendments, elections, and public ceremonies. At the same time, his opponents had to marshal their resources to challenge his return, relying on populations already war-weary and resentful of the costs they had had to bear. The contributors to this volume explore how, for both sides, cultural politics became central in supporting or challenging the legitimacy of these political orders in the path to Waterloo.
