Author: Veronica Buckley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007391153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The groundbreaking biography of one of the most progressive, influential and entertaining women of the seventeenth century, Christina Alexandra, Queen of Sweden.
Author: Francis Gribble
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434420469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Francis Henry Gribble (1862-1946) was a prolific biographer.
Author: Deborah Howard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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This interdisciplinary book investigates spaces for music-making in Early Modern France and Italy. Spaces specifically designed for music began to appear in private dwellings. While elite music-making became more specialised through the employment of paid musicians, music printing allowed new compositions to be diffused down the social scale.
Author: Michel Marc Bouchard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889228986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The story of a modern woman born out of her time - one whom the seventeenth century simply couldn't contain.
Author: Lyndon Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Author: Carolyn Meyer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439249768
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Carolyn Meyer, author of best-selling ROYAL DIARIES Isabel and Anastasia, now brings to the series this compelling story of Kristina, The Girl King, from 17th-century Sweden. Upon discovering that their newborn infant was, in fact, female and not male as first thought, Queen Marie Eleonore wailed inconsolably and King Gustavus Adolphus declared, nevertheless, that the child be raised as a prince. At age six, upon the death of her father, the child Kristina, was proclaimed King of Sweden, with regents assigned to council until she assumes the throne at age eighteen. And indeed, her life followed her father's plan. We meet Kristina when she's almost twelve years old and eschewing feminine practices but reveling in the study of military tactics,
Author: Georgina Masson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is a biography of Kristina of Sweden who would have preferred to have been a man and in reality behaved like one, who loved power but had to abdicate the Swedish throne. Nevertheless she never ceased for a moment to be royal. The author recounts her life in 17th century Sweden and later in Rome. (Publisher).
Author: Francis Henry Gribble
Publisher: London, E. Nash
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Stefano Fogelberg Rota
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782503579580
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Queen Christina of Sweden danced herself in the ballets she promoted. From the beginning of her personal rule until her abdication (1644-1654) court ballet was Christina's privileged medium of political propaganda. The Queen Danced Alone is the first monograph on court ballet during Christina's reign that offers an in-depth analysis of all extant libretti and performances. Based on unstudied and unpublished sources The Queen Danced Alone offers a survey of participants in the production and performances - authors, dancers, musicians, artists - as well as the arts involved: dance, music, poetry, set design and costumes. Christina's patronage is especially evident in the heroic motives of the ballets. Her self-fashioning through the parts of the goddesses Diana and Pallas mirrored her role as a young, unmarried and learned monarch and aimed at liberating her from the expectation of providing an heir to the throne. The praise of virtues such as self-control and chastity represented her as a superior being devoted to wisdom. Christina's ballets supported her most important aim: independence.
Author: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226204448
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–80) and René Descartes (1596–1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters—thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for anyone interested in Descartes’s philosophy, in particular his account of the human being as a union of mind and body, as well as his ethics. They also provide a unique insight into the character of their authors and the way ideas develop through intellectual collaboration. Philosophers have long been familiar with Descartes’s side of the correspondence. Now Elisabeth’s letters—never before available in translation in their entirety—emerge this volume, adding much-needed context and depth both to Descartes’s ideas and the legacy of the princess. Lisa Shapiro’s annotated edition—which also includes Elisabeth’s correspondence with the Quakers William Penn and Robert Barclay—will be heralded by students of philosophy, feminist theorists, and historians of the early modern period.
