Author: Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Book of the Courtier
Author: Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Courtiers of the Marble Palace
Author: Todd C. Peppers
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804753821
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804753821
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Courtiers of the Marble Palace explores how law clerks are hired and utilized by United States Supreme Court justices.
The Courtiers
Author: Lucy Worsley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
An 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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
An 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.
The Garments of Court and Palace
Author: Philip Bobbitt
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1782391428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author presents a provocative new interpretation of The Prince The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics—and in particular the politics of power—ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy and demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses, modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows, publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law and war in the creation and maintenance of the modern state.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1782391428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A New York Times-bestselling author presents a provocative new interpretation of The Prince The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics—and in particular the politics of power—ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy and demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses, modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows, publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law and war in the creation and maintenance of the modern state.
The Book of the Courtier
Author: conte Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtesy
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtesy
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The Lacemaker and the Princess
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416985832
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This vivid portrait of France on the eve of the Revolution is also a touching tale of two friends torn apart by class and the powerful political force of democratic freedom.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416985832
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This vivid portrait of France on the eve of the Revolution is also a touching tale of two friends torn apart by class and the powerful political force of democratic freedom.
The Society of Princes
Author: Jonathan Spangler
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754658603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The princes étrangers were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, none more so than the princes from the Lorraine-Guise family. This book examines the Lorraine-Guise at the court of Louis XIV and their renewed power, wealth and influence after the turbulent Wars of Religion. It is a substantial contribution to scholarship in court studies and will add greatly to debates on the nature of crown-noble relations in the era of absolutism.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754658603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The princes étrangers were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, none more so than the princes from the Lorraine-Guise family. This book examines the Lorraine-Guise at the court of Louis XIV and their renewed power, wealth and influence after the turbulent Wars of Religion. It is a substantial contribution to scholarship in court studies and will add greatly to debates on the nature of crown-noble relations in the era of absolutism.
Castiglione's Allegory
Author: W.R. Albury
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317169484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of the Courtier as a text in which some of its most important aspects are intentionally concealed and veiled in allegory. W.R. Albury argues that this early modern reading of The Book of the Courtier enables us to recover a serious political message which has a great deal of contemporary relevance and which is lost from sight when the work is approached primarily as a courtly etiquette book, or as a lament for the lost influence of the aristocracy in an age when autocratic nation-states were coming into being, or as an impersonal textual field upon which a free play of transformations and deconstructions may be performed.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317169484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing what is often characterized as the playful indeterminacy of the text, and seeking to detect inconsistencies which are interpreted as signs of anxiety or bad faith in its presentation. In contrast to these postmodern readings, the present study conducts an experiment. What understanding does one gain of Castiglione’s book if one attempts an early modern reading? The author approaches The Book of the Courtier as a text in which some of its most important aspects are intentionally concealed and veiled in allegory. W.R. Albury argues that this early modern reading of The Book of the Courtier enables us to recover a serious political message which has a great deal of contemporary relevance and which is lost from sight when the work is approached primarily as a courtly etiquette book, or as a lament for the lost influence of the aristocracy in an age when autocratic nation-states were coming into being, or as an impersonal textual field upon which a free play of transformations and deconstructions may be performed.
Princes of Darkness
Author: Laurent Murawiec
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742542785
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An inside look at the kingdom of Saudi Arabia discusses Wahhabism, the corruption within the Saudi royal family, its ties to terrorism, and the threat it poses to the Western world.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742542785
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
An inside look at the kingdom of Saudi Arabia discusses Wahhabism, the corruption within the Saudi royal family, its ties to terrorism, and the threat it poses to the Western world.
The Princess and the Cafe on the Moat
Author: Margie Markarian
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1534122931
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Once upon a time there was a very busy castle. And in that castle lived a king, a queen, a young princess, and all their courtiers and attendants. Everyone was very busy. The king conferred with his knights. The queen was occupied with her ladies-in-waiting. And the rest of the palace staff was doing their daily chores. Everyone was working. Everyone but the princess, who wanted very much to be engaged like the others. But it seemed nobody wanted or needed her help. Determined to be useful, the kindhearted princess sneaked away to the countryside to look for opportunities to help others. What did she find outside the castle walls? This feel-good story reminds us all about the importance of reaching out and taking time to connect with one another.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN: 1534122931
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Once upon a time there was a very busy castle. And in that castle lived a king, a queen, a young princess, and all their courtiers and attendants. Everyone was very busy. The king conferred with his knights. The queen was occupied with her ladies-in-waiting. And the rest of the palace staff was doing their daily chores. Everyone was working. Everyone but the princess, who wanted very much to be engaged like the others. But it seemed nobody wanted or needed her help. Determined to be useful, the kindhearted princess sneaked away to the countryside to look for opportunities to help others. What did she find outside the castle walls? This feel-good story reminds us all about the importance of reaching out and taking time to connect with one another.