Kategoria BISAC: History >> Western Europe - General

As the epicenters of style and innovation, the cities of Paris and Versailles dominate studies of consumerism in seventeenth-century France, but little scholarship exists on the material culture, fashion, and consumption patterns in the provinces. Donna J. Bohanan's Fashion beyond Versailles fills this historiographical gap by examining the household inventories of French nobles and elites in the southern province of Dauphine.

Much more than a simple study of the decorative arts, Fashion beyond Versailles investigates the meaning of material ownership. By examining postmortem registries...

Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly written study, Jeffrey Freedman examines one of the most important axes of the transnational book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the circulation of French books between France and the German-speaking lands. Focusing on the critical role of book dealers as cultural intermediaries, he follows...

In the medieval Christian church the claim to authority possessed by abbots, bishops, and popes stood in contrast to the rights of consultation held by monks, canons, and cardinals. This work demonstrates how the latter formed themselves into more or less independent electoral and consultative colleges.

Das vorliegende Buch nimmt die Verbindung von Spathumanismus und Militartheorie anhand der zentralen Kulturen der Niederlande und Frankreich in den Blick: Die Gelehrten konzeptualisierten an den Naht- und Schnittstellen militarpolitischer Kulturen und waren in die Konstitutionszusammenhange antiquarischen Wissens eingebunden. Unter dem Gesichtspunkt interner Bruche und Synergien in der spathumanistischen Gelehrtenrepublik werden neben anderen die Werke von Justus Lipsius, Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, Claude de Saumaise und Gabriel Naude sowie die philologisch-antiquarische Praxis im...